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Geographic Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009)

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In this demonstration we will examine the effectiveness of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) methods in digital library interfaces. We will show how various types of information may benefit from explicit geographic search, and where text-based place name search may be sufficient. We will also show how implicit geographic search (or geographic browsing) can be used to dynamically generate geographic searches in geographic interfaces like Google Earth. In this demostration we will show the algorithms used for Geographic search and how these may be combined with text search. In addition we will show results from the GeoCLEF IR evaluation for text-based search.

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  1. School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, 94720-4600

    Ray R. Larson

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering IST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Borbinha

  3. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Sarantos Kapidakis

  4. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoiki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Christos Papatheodorou  & Giannis Tsakonas  & 

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Larson, R.R. (2009). Geographic Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. In: Agosti, M., Borbinha, J., Kapidakis, S., Papatheodorou, C., Tsakonas, G. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_59

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