Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Query word deletion prediction
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Categorizing web queries according to geographical locality
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Accurate methods for the statistics of surprise and coincidence
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: I
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Generating query substitutions
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Experiments with geo-filtering predicates for IR
CLEF'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cross-Language Evalution Forum: accessing Multilingual Information Repositories
Ontology-Based spatial query expansion in information retrieval
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, COA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
Discovering users' specific geo intention in web search
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
A case study of using geographic cues to predict query news intent
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Classifying Documents According to Locational Relevance
EPIA '09 Proceedings of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Using the geographic scopes of web documents for contextual advertising
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
A large-scale study on map search logs
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Location disambiguation in local searches using gradient boosted decision trees
Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Hyper-local, directions-based ranking of places
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Personalized web search with user geographic and temporal preferences
APWeb'11 Proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web technologies and applications
Recommending interesting activity-related local entities
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
The problem of place name ambiguity
SIGSPATIAL Special
A multi-faceted approach to query intent classification
SPIRE'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval
"I'm eating a sandwich in Glasgow": modeling locations with tweets
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Search and mining user-generated contents
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Geographic expansion of queries to improve the geographic information retrieval task
NLDB'12 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
Modeling geographic, temporal, and proximity contexts for improving geotemporal search
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
PAKDD'12 Proceedings of the 2012 Pacific-Asia conference on Emerging Trends in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Map search via a factor graph model
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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Web searchers signal their geographic intent by using place-names in search queries. They also indicate their flexibility about geographic specificity by reformulating their queries. By examining this data we can learn to understand web searcher flexibility with respect to geographic intent. We examine aggregated data of queries with locations, and locations identified from IP addresses, to identify overall distance preferences, as well as distance preferences by search topic. We also examine query rewriting: both deliberate query rewriting, conducted in web search sessions, and automated query rewriting, with manual relevance judgments of geo-modified queries. We find geo-specification in 12.7% of user query rewrites in search sessions, and show the breakdown into sub-classes such as same-city, same-state, same-country and different-country. We also measure the dependence between US-state-name and distance-of-modified-location-from-original-location, finding that Vermont web searchers modify their locations greater distances than California web searchers. We find that automatically-modified queries are perceived as much more relevant when the geographic component is unchanged. We look at the relationship between the non-location part of a query and the distance from the user. We see that people search for child day-care near their locations and maps far from where they are located. We also give distance profiles for the top topics which cooccur with place-names in queries, which could be used to set document priors based on document proximity and query topic.