LocLinkVis: A Geographic Information Retrieval-Based System for Large-Scale Exploratory Search
This system addresses the need for efficient exploratory search in large-scale document collections for users in fields like geography or data analysis, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing geo-referencing and visualization techniques.
The authors tackled the problem of exploratory information access in large document collections by developing LocLinkVis, a system that uses geo-referencing and visualization to locate, link, and visualize spatial footprints from recognized toponyms, resulting in a tool for geographic information retrieval.
In this paper we present LocLinkVis (Locate-Link-Visualize); a system which supports exploratory information access to a document collection based on geo-referencing and visualization. It uses a gazetteer which contains representations of places ranging from countries to buildings, and that is used to recognize toponyms, disambiguate them into places, and to visualize the resulting spatial footprints.