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COSIT
2001
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Geographic 'Place' and 'Community Information' Preferences
People dynamically structure social interactions and activities at various locations in their environments in specialized types of places such as the office, home, coffee shop, mus...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Samer Karam, ...
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places: The P3 Framework for Location-Based Community Systems
Abstract. In this paper we examine an emerging class of systems that link People-to-People-toGeographical-Places; we call these P3-Systems. Through analyzing the literature, we hav...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Loren G. Terv...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
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 these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Extraction of Places Related to Flickr Tags
Geographic information systems use databases to map keywords to places. These databases are currently most often created by using a top-down approach based on the geographic defini...
Yukino Baba, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Shinichi Honiden