Using the geographic scopes of web documents for contextual advertising

Ivo Anastácio, Bruno Martins, Pável Calado
2010 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval - GIR '10  
Geotargeting is a specialization of contextual advertising where the objective is to target ads to Website visitors concentrated in well-defined areas. Current approaches involve targeting ads based on the physical location of the visitors, estimated through their IP addresses. However, there are many situations where it would be more interesting to target ads based on the geographic scope of the target pages, i.e., on the general area implied by the locations mentioned in the textual contents
more » ... f the pages. Our proposal applies techniques from the area of geographic information retrieval to the problem of geotargeting. We address the task through a pipeline of processing stages, which involves (i) determining the geographic scope of target pages, (ii) classifying target pages according to locational relevance, and (iii) retrieving ads relevant to the target page, using both textual contents and geographic scopes. Experimental results attest for the adequacy of the proposed methods in each of the individual processing stages.
doi:10.1145/1722080.1722103 dblp:conf/gir/AnastacioMC10 fatcat:np7mfzdlwbd7pfazxc5pahpaua