Hybrid index structures for location-based Web search

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 155-162

  Zhou, Yinghua ^a   Xie, Xing ^b   Wang, Chuang ^c   Gong, Yuchang ^a   Ma, Wei Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Geographical ranking; Geographical scope; Location based web search; Spatial index; Textual index

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; TEXT PROCESSING; WEBSITES;

GEOGRAPHICAL RANKING; GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE; LOCATION-BASED WEB SEARCH; SPATIAL INDEX; TEXTUAL INDEX;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33745804738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099554.1099584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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