GIR 2008: Napa Valley, California, USA

Chris Jones, Ross Purves (Eds.): Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 29-30, 2008. ACM 2008, ISBN 978-1-60558-253-5

Geoparsing, scoping, and disambiguation

Cláudio Elízio Calazans Campelo, Cláudio de Souza Baptista:
Geographic scope modeling for web documents. 11-18
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso:
Map-based vs. knowledge-based toponym disambiguation. 19-22
Ian Turton:
A system for the automatic comparison of machine and human geocoded documents. 23-24
Tobias Josef Brunner, Ross Purves:
Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity. 25-26

Geographic references and web crawling

Dirk Ahlers, Susanne Boll:
Retrieving address-based locations from the web. 27-34
Dheerendranath Mundluru, Xiongwu Xia:
Experiences in crawling deep web in the context of local search. 35-42
Florian A. Twaroch, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B. Jones:
Mining the web to detect place names. 43-44

Spatial language and GIR

Mark M. Hall, Christopher B. Jones:
Evaluating field crisping methods for representing spatial prepositions. 9-10

Query methods

Maria Angelica A. Leite, Ivan L. M. Ricarte:
Document retrieval using fuzzy related geographic ontologies. 47-54
Patricia Frontiera:
Flamenco + Geo: extending a hierarchical faceted metadata search interface with geographic capabilities. 55-56
Rosie Jones, Ahmed Hassan, Fernando Diaz:
Geographic features in web search retrieval. 57-58
Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso:
GikiP: evaluating geographical answers from wikipedia. 59-60
Christian Sallaberry, Mauro Gaio, Damien Palacio, Julien Lesbegueries:
Fuzzying GIS topological functions for GIR needs. 1-8

Poster

Emma J. Barker, Ross S. Purves:
A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images. 45