Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are routinely used by public and private organisations and enterprises as well as lay persons. It is becoming an infrastructure and a precond...
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 ...
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
—Due to modern pervasive wireless technologies and high-performance monitoring systems, spatio-temporal information plays an important role in areas such as intelligent transport...
Geographic information systems use databases to map keywords to places. These databases are currently most often created by using a top-down approach based on the geographic defini...