A case study of using geographic cues to predict query news intent

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 33-41

  Hassan, Ahmed ^a   Jones, Rosie ^b   Diaz, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information retrieval; Local news search

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; IP ADDRESSS; QUERY STRING; SEARCH QUERIES; SEARCH RESULTS; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCHES;

CLASSIFIERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LOCATION; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 74049148795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1653771.1653780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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