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Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
2008
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web - LOCWEB '08
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This paper discusses the acquisition of vernacular use of place names from web sources and their representation as surface models derived by kernel density estimators. ...
administrative definition of the same place name. ...
This work has also been partly funded by the EC FP6-IST 045335 TRIPOD project. LocWeb 2008 , 2008 April 22, 2008, Beijing, China. Copyright 2008 ACM 978-1-60558-160-6/08/04…$5.00. ...
doi:10.1145/1367798.1367808
dblp:conf/www/TwarochJA08
fatcat:c4mdxzscprhyxpzawj4muprnci
Modeling and visualizing geo-sensitive queries based on user clicks
2008
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web - LOCWEB '08
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, and how do we detect, disambiguate, and visualize the associated geographical location(s). ...
Search, and about 430 million user clicks on 1.6M unique Web pages over an eight-month period. ...
To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. LocWeb 2008, April 22, 2008, Beijing, China. ...
doi:10.1145/1367798.1367811
dblp:conf/www/ZhuangBG08
fatcat:bbdoy4mgjbdndgu5igewfacagm
Urban web crawling
2008
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web - LOCWEB '08
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Its data is usually aggregated from a variety of sources. One as yet largely untapped source of location data is the WWW. ...
For an effective retrieval of such content, this paper examines the application of focused Web crawling to the geospatial domain. ...
Part of this work was conducted as subproject of the Niccimon project, funded by the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. ...
doi:10.1145/1367798.1367803
dblp:conf/www/AhlersB08
fatcat:lmyzc42tzreqpdzwl7a57pwzre
Geographic web usage estimation by monitoring DNS caches
2008
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web - LOCWEB '08
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We also evaluate our estimation algorithm using extensive simulations, and finally use our algorithms to crawl 150 U.S. universities for various domains, and explore the effects of location and time on ...
DNS is one of the most actively used distributed databases on earth, accessed by millions of people every day to transparently convert host names into IP addresses and vice versa. ...
We are also interested in other geographical observations and possible applications of this technique. LocWeb 2008 , 2008 April 22, 2008, Beijing, China. ...
doi:10.1145/1367798.1367813
dblp:conf/www/AkcanSB08
fatcat:7pbf7nnbxrfupbslkhltha6nne
The locative web
2008
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web - LOCWEB '08
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The concept of location has become very popular in many applications on the Web, in particular for those which aim at connecting the real world with resources on the Web. ...
By turning the Web into a location-aware Web, which we call the "Locative Web," location-oriented applications get better support for their location concepts on the Web, and the Web becomes an information ...
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doi:10.1145/1367798.1367800
dblp:conf/www/WildeK08
fatcat:6k42nv3e4bcz5pihxuucdiyzum
LocalSavvy
2008
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web - LOCWEB '08
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or "How do the Chinese regard the human rights record of the United States?" Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). WWW 2008, April 21--25, 2008, Beijing, China. ...
The wide availability of information on the web makes it possible for readers to gain local perspectives and insights into news events and topics. ...
doi:10.1145/1367798.1367804
dblp:conf/www/LiuB08a
fatcat:rc5lk3fq65ferjghn4wke4enaa
Analysis of geographic queries in a search engine log
2008
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web - LOCWEB '08
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First, we identify typical properties of geographic search (geo) queries based on a manual examination of several thousand queries. ...
Based on these observations, we build a classifier that separates the trace into geo and non-geo queries. ...
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doi:10.1145/1367798.1367806
dblp:conf/www/GanAMS08
fatcat:fxpgojw6zbfkdj4ovnavfc6sta