Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval

摘要: We take great pleasure in welcoming you all to the Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'07). This is fourth a series of workshops GIR, which have been held alternately at SIGIR and CIKM since 2004. The are now becoming firmly established, together with GeoCLEF, as forum for exchange information development success new techniques within field Retrieval. delighted see vibrant mix regulars newcomers this year's workshop having received submissions from an increasing breadth groups locations, demonstrating that interest GIR continues grow. The call papers resulted interesting variety short long related differing aspects including analysis geographic needs ontologies support through perennial problems unambiguously identifying locations text documents; application intelligently deal process user queries; mining exploitation wide range examples GIR. All were reviewed by least two members programme committee. 12 9 selected presentation provide insights into state art cast light major challenges. hope will succeed not only its aim reporting where we now, but also how academic research community can set distinctive, relevant above exciting agenda coming year.