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IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding the intent behind mobile information needs
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular as a means of information access while on-the-go. Mobile users are likely to be interested in locating different types of content. ...
Karen Church, Barry Smyth
GEOINFORMATICA
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Area Collapse and Road Centerlines based on Straight Skeletons
Skeletonization of polygons is a technique, which is often applied to problems of cartography and geographic information science. Especially it is needed for generalization tasks ...
Jan-Henrik Haunert, Monika Sester
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A WordNet-Based Indexing Technique for Geographical Information Retrieval
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...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
An Evaluation Resource for Geographic Information Retrieval
In this paper we present an evaluation resource for geographic information retrieval developed within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The GeoCLEF track is dedicated to...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
GEOINFO
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Geographic Digital Content Components
Abstract Projects using geographic information tools involve a large variety of data objects, represented in different formats. Many efforts pursue standards to represent each kind...
André Santanchè, Claudia Bauzer Mede...