STEWARD: Architecture of a spatio-textual search engine

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 186-193

  Lieberman, Michael D ^a   Samet, Hanan ^a   Sankaranarayanan, Jagan ^a   Sperling, Jon ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b HUD Office of Policy Development and Research PD and R   (United States)

Author keywords

geocoding; spatio textual search engine; STEWARD

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; GEO CODING; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; INTUITIVE USER INTERFACE; SPATIO-TEXTUAL SEARCH ENGINE; STEWARD; TEXT DOCUMENT; WEB DOCUMENT;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 50249179278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1341012.1341045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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