Geographical gazetteers are necessary in a wide variety of applications. In the past, the construction of such gazetteers has been a tedious, manual process and only recently have...
Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette, Houda Bouamo...
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 ...
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
The size of the Web as well as user bases of search systems continue to grow exponentially. Consequently, providing subsecond query response times and high query throughput become...
Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Claudio Lucc...
This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names of places and historical periods, together with the associated geotemporal information. With...