The emergence of location sharing services is rapidly accelerating the convergence of our online and offline activities. In one direction, Foursquare, Google Latitude, Facebook Places …
C Liu, PLP Rau, F Gao - Computers in industry, 2010 - Elsevier
This study investigated mobile searching for location-based information by carrying out two experiments in an airport. The independent variables were user context, information type …
Abstract Search engines for Digital Libraries allow users to retrieve documents according to their contents. They process documents without differentiating the manifold aspects of …
FC Gey, RR Larson, J Machado, M Yoshioka - NTCIR, 2011 - academia.edu
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 …
S Asadi, G Yang, X Zhou, Y Shi, B Zhai… - Progress in WWW …, 2008 - Springer
Extraction of addresses and location names from Web pages is a challenging task for search engines. Traditional information extraction and natural processing models remain …
The current generation of location-based services (LBSs) does not provide users with personalized recommendations, but only suggests nearby points of interest (POIs) based on …
Geospatial data catalogs enable users to discover and access geographical information. Prevailing solutions are document oriented and fragment the spatial continuum of the …
S Asadi, X Zhou, G Yang - World Wide Web, 2009 - Springer
Search engines retrieve and rank Web pages which are not only relevant to a query but also important or popular for the users. This popularity has been studied by analysis of the links …
Geographical Information Access (GeoIA) can be defined as a way of retrieving information from textual collections that includes the automatic analysis and interpretation of the …