This book addresses the field of geographic information extraction and retrieval from textual documents. Geographic information retrieval is a rapidly emerging subject, a trend fostered by the growing power of the Internet and the emerging possibilities of data dissemination. After positioning his work in this field in Chapter 1, the author makes proposals in the following two chapters. Chapter 2 focuses on spatial and temporal information indexing and retrieval in corpora of textual documents. Propositions for both spatial and temporal information retrieval (IR) are made. Read more...
Content: Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Access By Geographic Content To Textual Corpora: What Orientations?; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Access by geographic content to textual corpora; 1.2.1. Document retrieval and textual corpora; 1.2.2. Textual corpora with "territorial" denotations; 1.2.3. Access to textual content; 1.3. Reinforcement of GIR by contributions from NLP, reasoning and multicriteria IR; 1.4. Toward the construction of a multicriteria IR engine; 1.4.1. Challenges, hypotheses and research objectives; 1.4.2. Approach; 1.4.3. Applications. Chapter 2. Spatial And Temporal Information Retrieval In Textual Corpora; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Review of challenges, hypotheses and research objectives; 2.3. Spatial and temporal information in textual documents: literature review; 2.3.1. Geographic information in text and IR; 2.3.2. Named entities; 2.3.3. Modeling languages; 2.3.4. Reasoning; 2.3.5. Linguistic processing; 2.3.6. GIR: systems and similarity measure models; 2.3.7. Evaluation campaigns, corpora and resources; 2.3.8. Summary; 2.4. Proposition for spatial and temporal information indexing and retrieval in textual corpora. 2.4.1. Reminder and focus on the notion of space and time in "heritage" corpora; 2.4.2. Core spatial model and core temporal model; 2.4.3. Spatial and temporal relations; 2.4.4. Spatial and temporal indexing process flows: PIV prototype; 2.4.5. Spatial and temporal IR: PIV prototype; 2.4.6. Evaluation and discussion; 2.5. Summary; 2.5.1. Contributions; 2.5.2. Perspectives; Chapter 3. Multicriteria Information Retrieval In Textual Corpora; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Review of challenges, hypotheses and research objectives; 3.3. Standardization and combination of criteria: literature review. 3.3.1. Criterion standardization; 3.3.2. Combination of criteria; 3.3.3. Summary and positioning of a partially compensatory GIR; 3.4. Proposition for indexing by tiling and multicriteria IR in textual corpora; 3.4.1. Standardization by tiling; 3.4.2. Spatial and temporal IR applied to tiling: PIV2; 3.4.3. Multicriteria IR applied to tiling: PIV3; 3.5. Evaluation and discussion; 3.5.1. Evaluation framework of geographic IRSs: proposal for a test collection and an experimental protocol; 3.5.2. Evaluation of the spatial and temporal IR applied to tiling. 3.5.3. Evaluation of the multicriteria IR applied to tiling; 3.6. Summary; 3.6.1. Contributions; 3.6.2. Perspectives; Chapter 4. General Conclusion; 4.1. Summary; 4.1.1. Contributions to the access by geographic content to textual corpora; 4.1.2. Spatial and temporal IR in texts; 4.1.3. Multicriteria IR in texts; 4.2. Perspectives; 4.2.1. Intradimensional axis; 4.2.2. Interdimensional axis; 4.2.3. Expansion of the vocabulary for a qualitative representation of the geographic dimensions; Bibliography; Index.
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Targeted at scientists, researchers, and industrial engineers, this text is a study of various aspects of geographic information retrieval. Author Christian Sallaberry didactically explains spatial information retrieval, temporal information retrieval, and geographic information retrieval. Read more...
