To separate or not to separate: reflections about GIR practice Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3341220, abstract = {Most geographical information retrieval (GIR) systems separate the treatment of the geographical and the non-geographical part, often called ” thematic”. In this paper, we provide an overview of this practice, and we advance arguments for and against. We also show some experimental results that apparently substantiate the non-separation argument. We conclude with the recommendation that this practice should receive more attention by the GIR community.}, author = {Cardoso, Nuno and Santos, Diana}, booktitle = {Proceedings of NMEIR 2008 : ECIR 2008 Workshop on novel methodologies for evaluation in information retrieval}, citeulike-article-id = {3341220}, day = {30}, keywords = {gir, queries}, location = {Glasgow}, month = {March}, posted-at = {2008-09-26 22:18:58}, priority = {2}, title = {To separate or not to separate: reflections about GIR practice}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3341220 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3341220 N2 - Most geographical information retrieval (GIR) systems separate the treatment of the geographical and the non-geographical part, often called “thematic”. In this paper, we provide an overview of this practice, and we advance arguments for and against. We also show some experimental results that apparently substantiate the non-separation argument. We conclude with the recommendation that this practice should receive more attention by the GIR community. CY - Glasgow TI - To separate or not to separate: reflections about GIR practice T2 - Proceedings of NMEIR 2008 : ECIR 2008 Workshop on novel methodologies for evaluation in information retrieval KW - gir KW - queries AU - Cardoso, Nuno AU - Santos, Diana PY - 2008/03/30/ ER -