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PERVASIVE
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
2011
Springer
Abstract. Accurate and fine-grained prediction of future user location and geographical profile has interesting and promising applications including targeted content service, adv...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
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...
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. Geographic place names are semantically often highly ambiguous. For example, there are 491 places in Finland sharing the same name "Isosaari" (great island) tha...
GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
We conduct large-scale search engine relevance experiments, using the 12% of queries that contain placenames, matching the placenames to places in the documents, and examining the...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) community has generally accepted the thesis that both thematic and geographic aspect of documents may be useful for GIR. This paper describe...