GIR'17
11 papers have been accepted for this year's workshop. We are also delighted to announce that Christian Jensen will give a keynote talk at the workshop. The full workshop programme is available here. Workshop registration is 75 Euros, and can be undertaken online here.Local information about the venue is available here.
The 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval will be held in Heidelberg, Germany from the 30th November to 1st December 2017. This workshop will address all aspects of Geographic Information Retrieval - such as the provision of methods to identify geographic scope, retrieve and relevance rank documents or other resources from both unstructured and partially structured collections on the basis of queries specifying both theme and geographic scope.
Accepted papers Armel Fotsoh, Christian Sallaberry and Annig Le Parc - Lacayrelle. Named entity similarity computation: The case of social event entities Dirk Ahlers. Traversing Linked Geospatial Data -- GeoNames in the Semantic Web Adrien Barbaresi. Towards a toolbox for geocoding, disambiguation and mapping Benedikt Budig and Thomas C. Van Dijk. Journeys of the Past: A Hidden Markov Approach to Georeferencing Historical Itineraries Diedrich Wolter, Andreas Henrich and Daniel Blank. Georeferencing River Networks Using Spatial Reasoning Rui Santos, Patricia Murrieta-Flores and Bruno Martins. An Automated Approach for Geocoding Tabular Itineraries Andreas Spitz, Gloria Feher and Michael Gertz. Extracting Descriptions of Location Relations from Implicit Textual Networks Madiha Yousaf and Diedrich Wolter. Spatial Information Extraction from Natural language Place Description for Incorporating Contextual Variables Masoumeh Seydi, Maxim Romanov and Chiara Palladino. Premodern Geographical Description: Data Retrieval and Identification Eliezer de Souza Da Silva and Dirk Ahlers. Factorization Models for Spatiotemporal Retrieval Elise Acheson, Julia Villette, Michele Volpi and Ross Purves. Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland
Please contact one of us if you require further information:
Ross Purves, University of Zurich
Chris Jones, Cardiff University