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GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Geographic features in web search retrieval
We conduct large-scale search engine relevance experiments, using the 12% of queries that contain placenames, matching the placenames to places in the documents, and examining the...
Rosie Jones, Ahmed Hassan, Fernando Diaz
WEBDB
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Design and Implementation of a Geographic Search Engine
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Using Geographic Signatures as Query and Document Scopes in Geographic IR
This paper reports the participation of the University of Lisbon at the 2007 GeoCLEF task. We adopted a novel approach for GIR, focused on handling geographic features and feature ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Cruz, Marcirio Silveira Chaves...