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W2GIS
2007
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A clustering-based approach for discovering interesting places in trajectories
Because of the large amount of trajectory data produced by mobile devices, there is an increasing need for mechanisms to extract knowledge from this data. Most existing works have...
Andrey Tietbohl Palma, Vania Bogorny, Bart Kuijper...
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 10 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
GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Mining the web to detect place names
With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information...
Florian A. Twaroch, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B...
SAINT
2008
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
Creating Location-Based Services by Utilising a Web of Places
We present an open, decentralized, participatory system which realizes location-based services by gently extending the existing World Wide Web. Utilizing a geospatial search engin...
Benedikt Ostermaier, Philipp Bolliger