TWinner: Understanding news queries with geo-content using Twitter

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Abrol, Satyen ^a   Khan, Latifur ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information retrieval; News queries; Search engines

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONE STEP; SEARCH QUALITY; SEARCH QUERIES; SEARCH RESULTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; USER QUERY; WEB SEARCHES;

ENGINES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77951491917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1722080.1722093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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