Abstract. This paper presents an indexing technique based on WordNet synonyms and holonyms. This technique has been developed for the Geographical Information Retrieval task. It ma...
A key problem that arises when unstructured text is being queried is that of properly recognizing and exploiting geographical terms and entities. Here we describe a mechanism for ...
Yi Li, Alistair Moffat, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Ca...
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 ...
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...
Brushing is a collection of techniques to dynamically query and directly select elements on the visual display. Such interaction allows the user to explore the visualization, to i...