In this paper, we present a folksonomy-based approach for implicit user intent extraction during a Web search process. We present a number of result re-ranking techniques based on...
In this paper, we present our preliminary work on a Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) system that utilizes loosely coupled web services and Google EarthTM (GE) to retrieve, e...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Chi-Chun Pan, Prasenjit Mitr...
We present the interest of the Semantic Web techniques, particularly semantic annotation, in the biochip domain. We propose a semi-automatic method using the information extraction...
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. ...
In this demonstration we will examine the effectiveness of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) methods in digital library interfaces. We will show how various types of informat...