STEWARD: architecture of a spatio-textual search engine

TitleSTEWARD: architecture of a spatio-textual search engine
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsLieberman MD, Samet H, Sankaranarayanan J, Sperling J
Conference NameProceedings of the 15th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Date Published2007///
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-59593-914-2
Keywordsgeocoding, spatio-textual search engine, STEWARD
Abstract

STEWARD ("Spatio-Textual Extraction on the Web Aiding Retrieval of Documents"), a system for extracting, querying, and visualizing textual references to geographic locations in unstructured text documents, is presented. Methods for retrieving and processing web documents, extracting and disambiguating georeferences, and identifying geographic focus are described. A brief overview of STEWARD's querying capabilities, as well as the design of an intuitive user interface, are provided. Finally, several application scenarios and future extensions to STEWARD are discussed.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1341012.1341045
DOI10.1145/1341012.1341045