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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Automatic geotagging of Russian web sites
The poster describes a fast, simple, yet accurate method to associate large amounts of web resources stored in a search engine database with geographic locations. The method uses ...
Alexei Pyalling, Michael Maslov, Pavel Braslavski
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Detecting dominant locations from search queries
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yans...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 14 days 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. ...
CLEF
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
University of Twente at GeoCLEF 2006: Geofiltered Document Retrieval
In this report we describe the approach of the University of Twente to the 2006 GeoCLEF task. It is based on retrieval by content and the subsequent filtering by geographical rele...
Claudia Hauff, Dolf Trieschnigg, Henning Rode
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...