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2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Towards Fuzzy Spatial Reasoning in Geographic IR Systems
Vague spatial information such as “x is located at walking distance of y” is abundant on the web. In this contribution, we propose a framework to represent such spatial inform...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Associating spatial patterns to text-units for summarizing geographic information
Retrieving data based not only on key words is a challenge. We worked on semi-structured data (cultural heritage corpora). Our project aimed at getting the most relevant text-unit...
Julien Lesbegueries, Christian Sallaberry, Mauro G...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Handling Locations in Search Engine Queries
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
Bruno Martins, Mário J. Silva, Sérgi...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Relevance Ranking for Geographic IR
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 ...
Leonardo Andrade, Mário J. Silva
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 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