IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Categorizing web queries according to geographical locality
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Web resource geographic location classification and detection
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Detecting dominant locations from search queries
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Geographic Named Entity Disambiguation with Automatic Profile Generation
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
World explorer: visualizing aggregate data from unstructured text in geo-referenced collections
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
Discovering geographic locations in web pages using urban addresses
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
Query expansion through geographical feature types
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
Geographically-Sensitive Link Analysis
WI '07 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Robust location search from text queries
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Environmental scenario search and visualization
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Generating diverse and representative image search results for landmarks
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Discovering geographical-specific interests from web click data
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web
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
Spatial probabilistic modeling of calls to businesses
Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
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With the recent surge in the volume of search queries that explicitly or implicitly express users' geographical interests, to accurately infer users' locality preference becomes an increasingly important yet challenging issue. We study two click-based models of the distribution of such geographical interests by mining the user click stream data in the search engine logs, addressing three important issues in spatial Web search. First, search queries and documents can be classified by the models according to their spatial specificity. Second, the geographic center(s) of interests for queries and documents can be inferred. Finally, the model can be applied to generate relevance features for search ranking. We evaluated our proposals on a large dataset with about 10,000 unique queries sampled from the Yahoo! Search query logs, and about 450 million user clicks on 1.4 million unique Web pages over a six-months period. We report about 90% accuracy and about 3% false positive rate in identifying search queries with or without specific geographical interests, as well as statistically significant improvement in relevance ranking over a strong baseline.