In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
This paper describes our participation at the GeoCLEF 2005 task. We detail the main software components of our Geo-IR system, its adaptation for the participation at GeoCLEF and d...
Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
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...
Content-oriented retrieval models are based on a document-term matrix, whereas link-oriented retrieval models are based on an adjacent (parentchild) matrix. Term frequency and inv...