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SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
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...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
We consider the planar point location problem from the perspective of expected search time. We are given a planar polygonal subdivision S and for each polygon of the subdivision t...
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Robust, global, address geocoding is challenging because there is no single address format that applies to all geographies, and in any case, users may not restrict themselves to w...
GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...