Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
In this paper, we describe our work in progress in the scope of information retrieval exploiting the spatial data extracted from web documents. We discuss problems of a search for ...
Stefan Dlugolinsky, Michal Laclavik, Ladislav Hluc...
Preparation of geographic metadata and development of geographic data clearinghouses take a very important role to promote dissemination of Geographic data. We would like to intro...
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 ...
Abstract-- Mapping mashups are emerging Web 2.0 applications in which data objects such as blogs, photos and videos from different sources are combined and marked in a map using AP...
Anthony K. H. Tung, Beng Chin Ooi, Dongxiang Zhang