Many documents that can be found in the World Wide Web include some kind of geographical information, often in an implicit way. The use of resources like gazetteers and geographic...
Abstract. Geographic place names are semantically often highly ambiguous. For example, there are 491 places in Finland sharing the same name "Isosaari" (great island) tha...
Tomi Kauppinen, Riikka Henriksson, Reetta Sinkkil&...
In this demonstration we will examine the effectiveness of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) methods in digital library interfaces. We will show how various types of informat...
Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic Informati...
This paper describes how we managed to use the WordNet ontology for the GeoCLEF 2005 English monolingual task. Both a query expansion method, based on the expansion of geographical...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal