Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Efficiently Managing Context Information for Large-Scale Scenarios
PERCOM '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Grounding spatial named entities for information extraction and question answering
HLT-NAACL-GEOREF '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references - Volume 1
Towards a context model driven german geo-tagging system
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
Geo-tagging for imprecise regions of different sizes
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web
International Journal of Geographical Information Science - Digital Gazetteer Research
Images and perceptions of neighbourhood extents
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
Automatic gazetteer enrichment with user-geocoded data
Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information
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This paper delineates our approach to augment geospatial datasets by named regions which are not typically handled by surveyors. Such regions are very important in vernacular speech and play a significant role in context-aware systems. Three different region types can be distinguished: (i) functional regions which are named after their purpose (e.g., financial district, business quarter), (ii) regions which have vernacular names (e.g. Bohnenviertel) and (iii) regions which are named after spatial attributes (Stuttgart-Süd). To acquire such regions we use a web-based approach. Our first implementation is used as a proof of concept and provides promising results. We describe several improvements which will be implemented in the future. Finally a possible scenario for a rigorous evaluation is introduced.