Neighborhood restrictions in geographic IR

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 167-174

  Schockaert, Steven ^a   De Cock, Martine ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fuzzy footprints; Geographic information retrieval

Indexed keywords

FUZZY FOOTPRINTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

FUZZY RULES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 36448953052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277772     Document Type: Article

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