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TAL
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Concept Based Representations for Ranking in Geographic Information Retrieval
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Maya Carrillo, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Aureli...
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
An Evaluation Resource for Geographic Information Retrieval
In this paper we present an evaluation resource for geographic information retrieval developed within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The GeoCLEF track is dedicated to...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
GEOINFO
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Approximate String Matching for Geographic Names and Personal Names
The problem of matching strings allowing errors has recently gained importance, considering the increasing volume of online textual data. In geotechnologies, approximate string mat...
Clodoveu A. Davis, Emerson de Salles
ER
2008
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Retrieving Documents with Geographic References Using a Spatial Index Structure Based on Ontologies
Abstract. Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic In...
Miguel Rodríguez Luaces, Ángeles S. ...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
GeoCLEF 2008: The CLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview
GeoCLEF is an evaluation initiative for testing queries with a geographic specification in large set of text documents. GeoCLEF ran a regular track for the third time within the C...
Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Handling implicit geographic evidence for geographic ir
Most geographic information retrieval systems depend on the detection and disambiguation of place names in documents, assuming that the documents with a specific geographic scope ...
Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Diana Santos
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
GIR Experimentation
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) community has generally accepted the thesis that both thematic and geographic aspect of documents may be useful for GIR. This paper describe...
Geoffrey Andogah
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The University of New South Wales at GeoCLEF 2006
This paper describes our participation in the GeoCLEF monolingual English task of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the retr...
You-Heng Hu, Linlin Ge
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Spatial filters for mobile information retrieval
This paper introduces the concept of spatial filters as an approach to increasing the relevance of the information retrieved by users of mobile information systems. This approach ...
David M. Mountain
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Eliciting concepts of place for text-based image retrieval
This paper describes research being employed in the Tripod project to improve the retrieval of photographs through a comprehensive knowledge of where they were taken. The methods ...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves