A novel approach on location based web object search for answering geographic queries

Abstract

The classical Web search engines focus on satisfying the information need of the users by retrieving relevant Web documents corresponding to the user query The Web document can contain information about different Web objects such as automobiles authors political parties e t c The user might be accessing the Web document to procure information about a specific Web object the remaining information in the Web object becomes redundant specific to the user If the size of Web documents is significantly large and the user information requirement is small fraction of the document the user has to invest effort in locating the required information inside the document It would be much more convenient if the user is newlineprovided with only the required Web object information located inside the Web documents this search philosophy also known as vertical search Web object search engines provide Web search facility through vertical search on Web objects to achieve the said goal objective information present in different documents is extracted and integrated into a object repository over which the Web object search facility is built Geographical labeling is a technique of assigning relevant geographical labels to the given entity Web search engines provide location based search through the aid of geographical labeling Even though multiple and effective contributions have been made in the literature for achieving location based search in Web search engines such contributions are unavailable in the literature for Web object search engines Location based search is essential to improve the search effectiveness of Web object search engines and cannot be overlooked. newline newline