Advanced database systems
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
R-trees: a dynamic index structure for spatial searching
SIGMOD '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
WebSCAN: Discovering and Notifying Important Changes of Web Sites
DEXA '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
An Augmented Web Space for Digital Cities
SAINT '01 Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2001)
Estimation of Geographic Relevance for Web Objects Using Probabilistic Models
W2GIS '08 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
Web information credibility analysis by geographical social support
Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium
A localness-filter for searched web pages
APWeb'03 Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web technologies and applications
A continuous spatial query processing for push-based geographic web search systems
W2GIS'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web and wireless geographical information systems
Optimization of geographic area to a web page for two-dimensional range query processing
WISEW'03 Proceedings of the Fourth international conference on Web information systems engineering workshops
Modified map search engine: geographical features extraction for ranking of modified maps
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
LocalRank: ranking web pages considering geographical locality by integrating web and databases
DEXA'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Map-Based range query processing for geographic web search systems
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
Retrieving regional information from web by contents localness and user location
AIRS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Asian Information Retrieval Technology
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A vast amount of information is available on the WWW. There are a lot of Web pages whose content is 'local' and interesting for people in a very narrow regional area. Usually, users search for information with search engines, even though finding or excluding local information may still be difficult. In this paper, we propose a new information retrieval method that is based on the localness degree for discovering or excluding local information from the WWW. Localness degree is a new notion for estimating the local dependence and ubiquitous nature of Web pages. The localness degree is computed by 1) a content analysis of the Web page itself, to determine the frequency of occurrence of geographical words, and the geographical area (i.e., latitude and longitude) covered by the location information given on the page, and 2) a comparison of the Web page with other pages with respect to daily (ubiquitous) content. We also show some results of our preliminary experiments of the retrieval method based on the localness degree.