An approach to social recommendation for context-aware mobile services

C Biancalana, F Gasparetti, A Micarelli… - ACM Transactions on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, several location-based services (LBSs) allow their users to take advantage of
information from the Web about points of interest (POIs) such as cultural events or …

Toward traffic-driven location-based web search

Z Cheng, J Caverlee, KY Kamath, K Lee - Proceedings of the 20th ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Mobile information search for location-based information

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 …

On the evaluation of geographic information retrieval systems: Evaluation framework and case study

D Palacio, G Cabanac, C Sallaberry… - International Journal on …, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Search engines for Digital Libraries allow users to retrieve documents according to
their contents. They process documents without differentiating the manifold aspects of …

[PDF][PDF] NTCIR9-GeoTime Overview-Evaluating Geographic and Temporal Search: Round 2.

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 …

Pattern-based extraction of addresses from web page content

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Social tagging for personalized location-based services

C Biancalana, F Gasparetti, A Micarelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - researchgate.net
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 …

Aggregation-based information retrieval system for geospatial data catalogs

J Lacasta, FJ Lopez-Pellicer… - International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Geospatial data catalogs enable users to discover and access geographical information.
Prevailing solutions are document oriented and fragment the spatial continuum of the …

Using local popularity of web resources for geo-ranking of search engine results

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 …

Knowledge-based and data-driven approaches for geographical information access

D Ferrés Domènech - 2017 - upcommons.upc.edu
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 …