Clough, P., Joho, H. and Purves, R. (2006) Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S.M., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T. and Yavlinsky, A., (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval. 28th European Conference on IR Research, 10-12 Apr 2006, London, UK. Springer Berlin Heidelberg , 548 - 552. ISBN 3-540-33347-9
Abstract
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is concerned with the retrieval of documents based on both thematic and geographic content. An important issue in GIR, as for all IR, is relevance. In this paper we argue that spatial relevance should be considered independently from thematic relevance, and propose an initial scheme. A pilot study to assess this relevance scheme is presented, with initial results suggesting that users can distinguish between these two relevance dimensions, and that furthermore they have different properties. We suggest that spatial relevance requires greater assessor effort and more localised geographic knowledge than judging thematic relevance.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2006 Springer Berlin Heidelberg. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Advances in Information Retrieval. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Apr 2014 15:44 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:26 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11735106_62 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/11735106_62 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78507 |