Query expansion techniques for information retrieval: a survey

HK Azad, A Deepak - Information Processing & Management, 2019 - Elsevier
With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with
a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …

FAIR geovisualizations: definitions, challenges, and the road ahead

A Degbelo - International Journal of Geographical Information …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The availability of open data and of tools to create visualizations on top of these open
datasets have led to an ever-growing amount of geovisualizations on the Web. There is thus …

Locating place names from place descriptions

M Vasardani, S Winter, KF Richter - International Journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we review the current literature on geographic information retrieval based on
place names. We focus on the positional uncertainties and the extent of vagueness …

Secure semantic expansion based search over encrypted cloud data supporting similarity ranking

Z Xia, Y Zhu, X Sun, L Chen - Journal of Cloud Computing, 2014 - Springer
With the advent of cloud computing, more and more information data are outsourced to the
public cloud for economic savings and ease of access. However, the privacy information has …

A task‐based ontology approach to automate geospatial data retrieval

N Wiegand, C García - Transactions in GIS, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a task‐based and Semantic Web approach to find geospatial data. The
purpose of the project is to improve data discovery and facilitate automatic retrieval of data …

Requirements-oriented methodology for evaluating ontologies

J Yu, JA Thom, A Tam - Information Systems, 2009 - Elsevier
Many applications benefit from the use of a suitable ontology but it can be difficult to
determine which ontology is best suited to a particular application. Although ontology …

Exploring the Importance of Themes in Narrative Systems

C Hargood - 2009 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
The problem of presenting information surrounds the need to make information relevant,
personalised and engaging. As a prevalent form of presenting information narratives can be …

Methods of systems using geographic meta-metadata in information retrieval and document displays

JR Frank, A Kornai - US Patent 9,286,404, 2016 - Google Patents
A computer-implemented method involving a corpus of documents. The method includes
accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a domain identifier …

Geographic intention and modification in web search

R Jones, WV Zhang, B Rey, P Jhala… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Web searchers signal their geographic intent by using place‐names in search queries. They
also indicate their flexibility about geographic specificity by reformulating their queries. By …

An automatic query expansion based on hybrid CMO-COOT algorithm for optimized information retrieval

AS Alqahtani, P Saravanan, M Maheswari… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The World Wide Web (WWW) comprises a wide range of information, and it is
mainly operated on the principles of keyword matching which often reduces accurate …