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Geographic scope modeling for web documents

Retrieving address-based locations from the web

Evaluating field crisping methods for representing spatial prepositions

Document retrieval using fuzzy related geographic ontologies

A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images

Fuzzying GIS topological functions for GIR needs

Map-based vs. knowledge-based toponym disambiguation

Experiences in crawling deep web in the context of local search

Flamenco + Geo: extending a hierarchical faceted metadata search interface with geographic capabilities

A system for the automatic comparison of machine and human geocoded documents

Mining the web to detect place names

Geographic features in web search retrieval

Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity

GikiP: evaluating geographical answers from wikipedia

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR '08)

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Editor	Purves, Ross Jones, Chris
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	We take great pleasure in welcoming you all to the Fifth Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'08). The GIR workshops have been running since 2004 and have been hosted by SIGIR and CIKM. These workshops are now firmly established together with GeoCLEF, as a forum for the exchange of information on the development and success of new techniques within the field of Geographic Information Retrieval. We are delighted to see a vibrant mix of regulars and newcomers at this year's workshop having received submissions from an increasing breadth of groups and locations, demonstrating that interest in GIR continues to grow. The call for papers resulted in a good variety of short and long papers relating to differing aspects of GIR, including the recognition and disambiguation of geographic references in documents, web mining to obtain knowledge of place names, crawling the deep web for geographic information, methods for interpreting vague spatial language and various aspects of query processing for GIR. All papers were reviewed by three members of the programme committee. The 5 long and 9 short papers that were selected for presentation from the 23 papers submitted provide valuable contributions to the state of the art in GIR and cast new light on some of the major challenges. We hope that the workshop will succeed not only in its aim of reporting on where we are now, but also on how we in the academic research community can set a distinctive, relevant and above all exciting research agenda for the coming years. Our keynote talk this year is delivered by Inderjeet Mani, of Mitre Corporation and the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. It is entitled "Understanding Geographic Language: Heading Where, Exactly?", In his talk Inderjeet will discuss the challenges posed for information retrieval by the precise yet vague manner in which humans can communicate geographic information. He will argue that, while natural language processing has made some progress in understanding geographic language, a far more concerted effort is needed if we are ever to scale up to the varieties of natural language data found on-line.
ISBN	9781605582535
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-10-29
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Conference Proceedings

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