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GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring Probabilistic Toponym Resolution for Geographical Information Retrieval
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...
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On metonymy recognition for geographic IR
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...
Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf
ITCC
2003
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the Mapping of Index Compression Techniques on CSR Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is the selection of documents relevant to a query. Inverted index is the conventional way to store the index of the collection. Because of the large amounts ...
Sterling Stuart Stein, Nazli Goharian
ICMCS
2005
IEEE
90views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
An Indexing System for Photos Based on Shooting Position and Orientation with Geographic Database
With the spread of digital cameras, shooting photos has been becoming an everyday affair. However, there are few methods or systems to manage photos simply, and a huge amount of ...
Kiyoko Iwasaki, Kazumasa Yamazawa, Naokazu Yokoya
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 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