Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 387-388

  Jones, Christopher B ^a   Purves, R ^b   Ruas, A ^c   Sanderson, M ^d   Sester, M ^e   Van Kreveld, M ^f   Weibel, R ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METADATA; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SPATIAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEB SEARCH;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0036989480     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564437.564457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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