Theme and proposed topics

The workshop is intended to cover a wide range of topics that are of particular concern to geographical information retrieval. Examples of such topics include, but are not confined to:

  • architectures for geographic search engines;
  • spatial indexing of documents and images;
  • extraction of geographical context from documents and geo-datasets;
  • geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced documents and images;
  • design, construction, maintenance and access methods for geographical ontologies, gazetteers and geographical thesauri;
  • geographical query interfaces for the web and geo-spatial libraries;
  • geographic information question/ answering services;
  • dealing with natural language in geographic information retrieval;
  • visualising of the results of geographic searches; and
  • relevance ranking for geographical search.

     

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