A georeferencing multistage method for locating geographic context in web search

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A georeferencing multistage method for locating geographic context in web search

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Conference on Information and Knowledge Management archive
Proceeding of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management table of contents

Napa Valley, California, USA

POSTER SESSION: Poster session 3/information retrieval table of contents

Pages 1485-1486

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-991-3

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Álvaro Zubizarreta	Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Pablo de la Fuente	Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
José M. Cantera	Telefónica I+D, Valladolid, Spain
Mario Arias	Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Jorge Cabrero	Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Guido García	Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
César Llamas	Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Jesús Vegas	Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The geographic scope of Web pages is becoming an essential dimension of Web search, especially for mobile users. This paper shows a multistage method for assigning a geographic focus to Web pages (GeoReferencing) according to their text contents. We suggest several heuristics for the disambiguation toponyms and a scoring procedure for focus determination. Furthermore, we provide an experimental methodology for evaluating the accuracy. Finally, we obtained promising results of over 70% accuracy with a city-level resolution.

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