The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing

@inproceedings{citeulike:637490, abstract = {The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components include the user interface, a geographical ontology, maintenance and retrieval functions for a test collection of web documents, textual and spatial indexes, relevance ranking and metadata extraction. Here we summarise the functionality and interaction between these components before focusing on the design of the geo-ontology and the development of spatio-textual indexing methods. The geo-ontology supports functionality for disambiguation, query expansion, relevance ranking and metadata extraction. Geographical place names are accompanied by multiple geometric footprints and qualitative spatial relationships. Spatial indexing of documents has been integrated with text indexing through the use of spatio-textual keys in which terms are concatenated with spatial cells to which they relate. Preliminary experiments demonstrate considerable performance benefits when compared with pure text indexing and with text indexing followed by a spatial filtering stage.}, author = {Jones, Christopher B. and Abdelmoty, Alia I. and Finch, David and Fu, Gaihua and Vaid, Subodh }, chapter = {p. 125}, citeulike-article-id = {637490}, editor = {Egenhofer, Max J. and Freksa, Christian and Miller, Harvey J. }, journal = {Geographic Information Science: Third International Conference, GIScience 2004}, keywords = {architecture, indexing, ontologies, spatial}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2006-05-16 19:45:49}, priority = {3}, publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg}, title = {The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing}, url = {http://www.geo-spirit.org/publications/cbjone-giscience04.pdf}, volume = {3234 / 2004}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:637490 L3 - citeulike-article-id:637490 TI - The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing JF - Geographic Information Science: Third International Conference, GIScience 2004 VL - 3234 / 2004 PB - Springer Berlin / Heidelberg N2 - The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components include the user interface, a geographical ontology, maintenance and retrieval functions for a test collection of web documents, textual and spatial indexes, relevance ranking and metadata extraction. Here we summarise the functionality and interaction between these components before focusing on the design of the geo-ontology and the development of spatio-textual indexing methods. The geo-ontology supports functionality for disambiguation, query expansion, relevance ranking and metadata extraction. Geographical place names are accompanied by multiple geometric footprints and qualitative spatial relationships. Spatial indexing of documents has been integrated with text indexing through the use of spatio-textual keys in which terms are concatenated with spatial cells to which they relate. Preliminary experiments demonstrate considerable performance benefits when compared with pure text indexing and with text indexing followed by a spatial filtering stage. KW - architecture KW - indexing KW - ontologies KW - spatial AU - Jones, Christopher AU - Abdelmoty, Alia AU - Finch, David AU - Fu, Gaihua AU - Vaid, Subodh A2 - Egenhofer, Max A2 - Freksa, Christian A2 - Miller, Harvey PY - 2004/10// UR - http://www.geo-spirit.org/publications/cbjone-giscience04.pdf ER -