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GIR
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Eliciting concepts of place for text-based image retrieval
This paper describes research being employed in the Tripod project to improve the retrieval of photographs through a comprehensive knowledge of where they were taken. The methods ...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 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
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Using GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval
Abstract. We present a method that uses GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval. During the indexing phase, all places are disambiguated and assigned their coordinates on...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Identifying and grounding descriptions of places
In this paper we test the hypothesis Given a piece of text describing an object or concept our combined disambiguation method can disambiguate whether it is a place and ground it ...
Simon E. Overell, Stefan M. Rüger
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Relevance Ranking for Geographic IR
In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
Leonardo Andrade, Mário J. Silva