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GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Detecting Geographical Serving Area of Web Resources
Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applicat...
Qi Zhang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Lihua Yue, Wei-Ying ...
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Ontology-Based Spatial Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
Ontologies play a key role in Semantic Web research. A common use of ontologies in Semantic Web is to enrich the current Web resources with some well-defined meaning to enhance th...
Gaihua Fu, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On metonymy recognition for geographic IR
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf
DEBU
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Analyzing Fine-grained Hypertext Features for Enhanced Crawling and Topic Distillation
Early Web search engines closely resembled Information Retrieval (IR) systems which had matured over several decades. Around 1996
Soumen Chakrabarti, Ravindra Jaju
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...