Geographic Information Retrieval
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Call for Papers
The 2008 Meeting of The American Association of Geographers (AAG)
April 15-19 2008
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Session Sponsored By The AAG Geographic Information Science Specialty Group (AAG-GISSG)
Description:
This session welcomes the submission of abstracts dealing with any aspect of
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR), which can be defined as the retrieval
and relevance ranking of unstructured or partially structured information
sources based on theme and geographic scope (Purves and Jones 2006).
Paper topics include (but are not limited to):
- Methods for identifying, gecoding, and disambiguating geographic terms in
documents
- Gazetteer sources for GIR
- Evaluating GIR tools and algorithms
- Approaches to indexing document! collections to facilitate searching based on
geographic and thematic scope
- Collaborative GIR
- Geovisualization and map design issues for geographic presentation of GIR
results
- Interface design for GIR query formulation and review of returned query
results
- The use of ontologies to support GIR searches
- Identifying spatial scopes or ?footprints? for documents
- GIR case studies (e.g., GIR in disaster/emergency response; GIR for studying
infectious diseases)
To participate in the session:
- Register and submit your paper abstract online at: http://www.aag.org/
- Email your presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and abstract to
the session organizer (bmt139@psu.edu) by October 31, 2007 or whatever the final
deadline date for abstracts is in the event the deadline date is changed by the
AAG.
Session Organizer:
Brian Tomaszewski
Penn State University
bmt139@psu.edu
Purves, R. and C. Jones (2006). ! "Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR)."
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 30(4): 375-377.
Preliminary inquires, notices of intention to submit, or any questions are
welcome at any time
A PDF flyer for the session can be found at:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/bmt139/AAG/AAG_2008_GIR_Paper_Session_Proposal.pdf
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