GIR 2010: Zurich, Switzerland

Ross Purves, Paul Clough, Christopher B. Jones (Eds.): Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, February 18-19, 2010. ACM 2010, ISBN 978-1-60558-826-1

Ontologies and natural language

Francisco J. López-Pellicer, Mário J. Silva, Marcirio Silveira Chaves:
Linkable geographic ontologies.
Michael Piotrowski, Samuel Läubli, Martin Volk:
Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions.
Johannes Leveling:
Unnamed locations, underspecified regions, and other linguistic phenomena in geographic annotation of water-based locations.
Ahmed N. Alazzawi, Alia I. Abdelmoty, Christopher B. Jones:
An ontology of place and service types to facilitate place-affordance geographic information retrieval.

Georeferencing

Olivier Van Laere, Steven Schockaert, Bart Dhoedt:
Towards automated georeferencing of Flickr photos.
Michael D. Lieberman, Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan:
Geotagging: using proximity, sibling, and prominence clues to understand comma groups.
Richard Tobin, Claire Grover, Kate Byrne, James Reid, Jo Walsh:
Evaluation of georeferencing.

Geographic queries

Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva:
A GIR architecture with semantic-flavored query reformulation.
Isao Kojima, Masahiro Kimoto, Akiyoshi Matono:
OGC catalog service for heterogeneous earth observation metadata using extensible search indices.
Satyen Abrol, Latifur Khan:
TWinner: understanding news queries with geo-content using Twitter.
Matthias Baldauf, Rainer Simon:
Getting context on the go: mobile urban exploration with ambient tag clouds.

Toponym detection and vernacular names

Rafael Odon de Alencar, Clodoveu Augusto Davis Jr., Marcos André Gonçalves:
Geographical classification of documents using evidence from Wikipedia.
Paul Clough, Robert Pasley:
Images and perceptions of neighbourhood extents.
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones:
A web platform for the evaluation of vernacular place names in automatically constructed gazetteers.
Davide Buscaldi, Bernardo Magnini:
Grounding toponyms in an Italian local news corpus.

Scope and time

Jannik Strötgen, Michael Gertz, Pavel Popov:
Extraction and exploration of spatio-temporal information in documents.
Michael Piotrowski:
Leveraging back-of-the-book indices to enable spatial browsing of a historical document collection.
Ivo Anastácio, Bruno Martins, Pável Calado:
Using the geographic scopes of web documents for contextual advertising.
David S. Batista, Mário J. Silva, Francisco M. Couto, Bibek Behera:
Geographic signatures for semantic retrieval.

Annotation, relevance ranking and evaluation

Carla Geovana N. Macário, Jefersson Alex dos Santos, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Ricardo da Silva Torres:
Annotating data to support decision-making: a case study.
Bruno Martins, Pável Calado:
Learning to rank for geographic information retrieval.
Jiayu Tang, Mark Sanderson:
Spatial diversity, do users appreciate it?
Stefano De Sabbata, Tumasch Reichenbacher:
A probabilistic model of geographic relevance.
Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso, Luís Miguel Cabral:
How geographic was GikiCLEF?: a GIR-critical review.

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