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...
Large-scale information processing applications must rapidly search through high volume streams of structured and unstructured textual data to locate useful information. Content-ba...
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries where geographical location is important, such as finding hotels within an area or close to ...