Geographic Information Retrieval
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ÖZET Bu çalışmada; öncelikle coğrafi/konumla ilgili bilgiler ve bu bilgileri ihtiva eden bilgi kaynaklarına erişmek için kullanılan bir kavram olan coğrafi bilgi erişim kavramı ve çalışma prensipleri ile coğrafi bilgi erişim sistemleri... more
Gazetteers are important tools used in a wide variety of workflows that depend on linking natural language text to geographical space. The spatial properties of these data sources, such as coverage, balance, and completeness, affect the... more
Gazetteers are playing a central role in the current data revolution as key tools to link content to geographical space. However, their geographies and idiosyncrasies are poorly understood despite their potential to worsen application... more
How do people perceive landscapes? What elements of the landscape do they identify as characteristic of a landscape? And how can we arrive at descriptions, and ultimately representations that better reflect people’s notions of landscapes?... more
This paper presents an automatic annotation of spatial expressions enabling the improvement of the indexing process of non-structured geographic information. The proposed method combines the use of specific intra-sentential relationships... more
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) systems rely on the identification and disambiguation of place names in documents to determine the region about which they are relevant. The place names are mapped into geographic concepts and used... more
1University of Hildesheim, Germany, 2University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 3University of Padua, Italy , 4University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 5Linguateca, SINTEF ICT, Norway E-mail: mandl@uni-hildesheim.de ... In this paper we... more
For the participation of the University of Alicante in the first cross-language Geographic Information Retrieval, we have developed a system made up of three modules. One of them is an Information Retrieval module and the others are Named... more
Historical itineraries, often accessible as lists or tables describing places visited in sequence, are abundant resources and also important objects of study for humanities scholars. This article advances a novel method for automatically... more
The aim of this article is to present new research showcasing how Geographic Information Systems in combination with Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics methods can offer innovative venues of research to analyse large... more
Geographic information is increasingly used in mobile contexts. Mobility constrains several aspects of this mobile usage, such as limited screen estate, number of desired interactions, or availability due to battery time. As a consequence... more
GeoTime for the NTCIR Workshop 9 is the second evaluation of Geographic and Temporal Information Retrieval called “NTCIR GeoTime”. The focus of this task is on search with Geographic and Temporal constraints. This overview describes the... more
In this paper we test the hypothesis Given a piece of text describing an object or concept our combined disambiguation method can disambiguate whether it is a place and ground it to a Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names unique... more
Libraries and researchers face a big challenge: sometimes thousands, millions of maps are being conserved in archives to retard deterioration, but this makes it hard to obtain specific knowledge of their content, sometimes even of their... more
1University of Hildesheim, Germany, 2University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 3University of Padua, Italy , 4University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 5Linguateca, SINTEF ICT, Norway E-mail: mandl@uni-hildesheim.de ... In this paper we... more
In just twenty years, the World Wide Web and mobile networks have changed the way we communicate, the way we search for information we need, and the way we organize our activities. The opportunities aff�orded by these changes led to the... more
Gazetteers are dictionaries of geographic place-names that have important implications far beyond the worlds of geographers and cartographers. By containing ‘definitive’ lists of places, gazetteers have the ontological power to define... more
In this paper we demonstrate how a large corpus, consisting of about 10000 articles describing Swiss alpine landscapes and activities and dating back to 1864, can be used to explore the use of language in space. In a first step we link... more
This short paper investigates how locations in or close to water masses in topics and documents (e.g. rivers, seas, oceans) are referred to. For this study, 13 topics from the GeoCLEF topics 2005-2008 aiming at documents on rivers,... more
This paper reports on the development and application of strategies and tools for geographic information seeking and knowledge building that leverages unstructured text resources found on the web. Geographic knowledge building from... more
In this paper we describe the geographic information retrieval system developed by the Multimedia & Information Systems team for GeoCLEF 2006 and the results achieved. We detail our methods for generating and applying co-occurrence models... more
With the rapid use of the internet into users' daily lives, it is imperative to capture location-specific information from local database to satisfy the user's local information needs [context]. This is especially true in the... more