Geographic co-occurrence as a tool for GIR

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-76

  Overell, Simon E ^a   Rüger, Stefan ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms

Indexed keywords

CO-OCCURRENCE; FREE TEXTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RELEVANCE RANKING; THEORETICAL BOUNDS; WIKIPEDIA;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77954338519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316948.1316968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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