Robust location search from text queries

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 178-185

  Sengar, Vibhuti ^a   Joshi, Tanuja ^b   Joy, Joseph ^a   Prakash, Samarth ^a   Toyama, Kentaro ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

ambiguous spatial queries; geocoding; location search

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; DEPTH FIRST SEARCH; GEO CODING; LARGE SPACES; LOCATION QUERIES; ONLINE MAPPING; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL INTERSECTION; SPATIAL QUERIES; TEXT ATTRIBUTES; TEXT LABELS; TEXT QUERY; TEXTUAL SIMILARITIES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959719262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1341012.1341044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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