Using Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures for Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning
COSIT '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS
Formalizing Regions in the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy: An AH-Graphs Implementation Approach
COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Core Elements of Digital Gazetteers: Placenames, Categories, and Footprints
ECDL '00 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Reasoning about Binary Topological Relations
SSD '91 Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning Techniques
KI '97 Proceedings of the 21st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
COOPIS '96 Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Indexing and ranking in Geo-IR systems
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Challenges and resources for evaluating geographical IR
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval
Geographic co-occurrence as a tool for gir.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web
International Journal of Geographical Information Science - Digital Gazetteer Research
Using co-occurrence models for placename disambiguation
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Extracting geographic features from the Internet to automatically build detailed regional gazetteers
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Data Integration of Ocean Observational Systems
APWeb/WAIM '09 Proceedings of the Joint International Conferences on Advances in Data and Web Management
Thematic clustering of geographic resource metadata collections
W2GIS'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web and wireless geographical information systems
Interpretation of intentional behavior in spatial partonomies
Spatial cognition III
Every document has a geographical scope
Data & Knowledge Engineering
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Intelligent and efficient information retrieval becomes increasingly important. Analogous to thesauri in the realm of spatial concepts, gazetteers offer a controlled vocabulary that can be used for spatial queries. Gazetteers use geographic footprints to link place names to geographic locations. Which geographic footprint representation is chosen has a strong impact on the quality of spatial queries. However, the footprint representations currently used in standard gazetteers such as points, lines, grid cell representations, and bounding boxes do not offer enough topological information to support refined spatial queries. We propose a new type of spatial footprint that can be described as a qualitative representation of the spatial decomposition of geographic entities. It holds enough topological and ordinal information enable refined spatial queries without being subject to the constraints of exact polygon representations. The proposed spatial representation was developed to be combined with terminological reasoning techniques used in systems for intelligent information integration.