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WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Track globally, deliver locally: improving content delivery networks by tracking geographic social cascades
Providers such as YouTube offer easy access to multimedia content to millions, generating high bandwidth and storage demand on the Content Delivery Networks they rely upon. More ...
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musoles...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Detecting Geographical Serving Area of Web Resources
Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applicat...
Qi Zhang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Lihua Yue, Wei-Ying ...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 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
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Visualization of geographic query results for small screen devices
The visualization of geo-referenced information on a map has become an essential method to help the users to get the intended information. The adaptation of visualization techniqu...
Maria Beatriz Carmo, Ana Paula Afonso, Paulo Pombi...
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006
This paper details the participation of the XLDB group from the University of Lisbon at the GeoCLEF task of CLEF 2006. We tested text mining methods that make use of an ontology t...
Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Cha...