When and Why Are Visual Landmarks Used in Giving Directions?
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Enriching Wayfinding Instructions with Local Landmarks
GIScience '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geographic Information Science
The Wisdom of Crowds
Robust location search from text queries
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Using the wisdom of the crowds for keyword generation
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Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
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People obtain location information through on/offline activities and they are represented into a 'verbal description' in their daily communication. The description of a certain location is shared by people through blogs, e-mails, and many other forms of communication. However the location descriptions may vary among people due to different perception, unlike explicit forms as street names or address numbers. In this paper, we propose an architecture for retrieving and generating location descriptions from the blogosphere. The location descriptions are dynamically generated harnessing the wisdom of crowds, by aggregating the fragmented descriptions into an accurate and objective one for human way-finding. The experimental results of this study showed that in a comparison of the official address as well as the location descriptions of random bloggers, the recognition of the location description created with the proposed scheme showed a higher level of accuracy