Sciweavers

COMGEO
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
GIRPharma: a geographic information retrieval approach to locate pharmacies on duty
This paper describes an approximation based on geographic information retrieval with the purpose to give some solutions to the problem of searching pharmacies on duty in the Spani...
Francisco M. Rangel Pardo, Loli Rangel Pardo, Davi...
ESA
2005
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  ESA 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Delineating Boundaries for Imprecise Regions
In geographic information retrieval users use names of geographic regions that do not have a well-defined boundary, like Southern France. We present two approaches to compute rea...
Iris Reinbacher, Marc Benkert, Marc J. van Kreveld...
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005
For the participation of the University of Alicante in the first cross-language Geographic Information Retrieval, we have developed a system made up of three modules. One of them...
Óscar Ferrández, Zornitsa Kozareva, ...
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating Geographic Information Retrieval
Abstract. The processing steps required for geographic information retrieval include many steps that are common to all forms of information retrieval, e.g. stopword filtering, ste...
András Kornai
DEXAW
2007
IEEE
101views Database» more  DEXAW 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
An Index Structure To Retrieve Documents With Geographic Information
Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic Informati...
Miguel Rodríguez Luaces, José R. Par...
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
139views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Geographic Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
In this demonstration we will examine the effectiveness of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) methods in digital library interfaces. We will show how various types of informat...
Ray R. Larson
HICSS
2010
IEEE
166views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Spatial Variation in Search Engine Results
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
David Noack
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer 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 thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A Case Study of Using Geographic Cues to Predict Query News Intent
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, Fernando Diaz
GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mapping geographic coverage of the web
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...