Semantic Expansion of Geographic Web Queries Based on Natural Language Positioning Expressions Export

@article{citeulike:1389670, abstract = {Abstract The need for better Web search tools is getting increasing attention nowadays. About 20\% of the queries currently submitted to search engines include geographic references. Thus, it is particularly important to work with the semantics of such queries, both by understanding the terminology and by recognizing geographic references in natural language text. In this paper, we explore the use of natural language expressions, which we call positioning expressions, to perform geographic searches on the Web, without resorting to geocoded data or gazetteers. Such positioning expressions denote the location of a subject of interest with respect to a landmark. Our approach leads to a query expansion technique that can be explored by virtually any keyword-based search engine. Results obtained in our experiments show an expressive improvement over the traditional keyword-based search and a potential path for tackling many kinds of common geographic queries.}, author = {Delboni, Tiago M. and Borges, Karla A. and Laender, Alberto H. and Davis, Clodoveu A.}, citeulike-article-id = {1389670}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01051.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01051.x}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01051.x}, journal = {Transactions in GIS}, keywords = {nlp, placename, semantic}, number = {3}, pages = {377--397}, posted-at = {2008-11-21 12:33:07}, priority = {2}, title = {Semantic Expansion of Geographic Web Queries Based on Natural Language Positioning Expressions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01051.x}, volume = {11}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1389670 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1389670 N2 - Abstract The need for better Web search tools is getting increasing attention nowadays. About 20% of the queries currently submitted to search engines include geographic references. Thus, it is particularly important to work with the semantics of such queries, both by understanding the terminology and by recognizing geographic references in natural language text. In this paper, we explore the use of natural language expressions, which we call positioning expressions, to perform geographic searches on the Web, without resorting to geocoded data or gazetteers. Such positioning expressions denote the location of a subject of interest with respect to a landmark. Our approach leads to a query expansion technique that can be explored by virtually any keyword-based search engine. Results obtained in our experiments show an expressive improvement over the traditional keyword-based search and a potential path for tackling many kinds of common geographic queries. IS - 3 JF - Transactions in GIS EP - 397 TI - Semantic Expansion of Geographic Web Queries Based on Natural Language Positioning Expressions VL - 11 SP - 377 KW - nlp KW - placename KW - semantic AU - Delboni, Tiago AU - Borges, Karla AU - Laender, Alberto AU - Davis, Clodoveu PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01051.x ER -