Geographical information retrieval in textual corpora

 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...