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Criteria of geographic relevance: an experimental study

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posted on 2020-06-10, 15:04 authored by S De Sabbata, T Reichenbacher

The relevance of geographic information has become an emerging problem in geographic information science due to an enormous increase in volumes of data at high spatial, temporal, and semantic resolution, because of ever faster rates of new data capturing. At the same time, it is not clear whether the concept of relevance developed in information science and implemented for document-based information retrieval can be directly applied to this new, highly dynamic setting. In this study, we analyze the criteria users apply when judging the relevance of geographic entities in a given mobile usage context. Two different experiments have been set up in order to gather users' opinions on a set of possible criteria, and their relevance judgements in a given scenario. The importance ascribed to the criteria in both experiments clearly implies that a new concept of relevance is required when dealing with geographic entities instead of digital documents. This new concept of ‘Geographic Relevance’ is highly dependent on personal mobility and user's activity, whose understanding may in turn be refined by the assimilation of ‘Geographic Relevance’ itself.

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Citation

International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2012, 26, pp. 1495-1520

Author affiliation

/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Geography

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volume

26

Pagination

1495-1520

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

eissn

1365-8824

Acceptance date

2011-11-01

Copyright date

2012

Language

en

Publisher version

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2011.639303

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