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SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
TOG
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
Given a large repository of geotagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, e.g. windows, balconies, and street signs, that are most distinctive for a certain g...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We address the modeling, parameter estimation and search challenges that arise from the
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
The poster describes a fast, simple, yet accurate method to associate large amounts of web resources stored in a search engine database with geographic locations. The method uses ...