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Spatiotemporal Information for the Web

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Synonyms

Spatial-textual Web search; Spatiotemporal Web; Temporal-textual Web search.

Glossary

AD:

Attribute descriptor

GEO/GEO Ambiguity:

It refers that many locations can share a single place name

GEO/NON-GEO Ambiguity:

It refers that a location name can be used as other types of names

GRT:

Global reference time

LD:

Location descriptor

Location:

A site name or geographic scope mentioned in Web pages

LRT:

Local reference time

NER:

Named entity recognition

OID:

Object identifier

Primary Location:

The most appropriate location associated with a Web page

Primary Time:

The most appropriate time associated with a Web page

Search Engine:

Search engine is a popular tool to find information in the Web

TD:

Time descriptor

Time:

One or more units of chronons. It can be a time instant or a time period

Definition

This subject is mainly towards the spatiotemporal information involved in the Web, particularly in Web pages. Typical spatiotemporal information in the Web includes the locations and...

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the University of Science and Technology of China for providing the environment where the study described in this entry was completed. The work involved in this article is partially supported by the National Science Foundation of Anhui Province (NO. 1208085MG117) and the USTC Youth Innovation Foundation.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

    Peiquan Jin, Sheng Lin & Qingqing Zhang

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Singapore

    Gao Cong

  2. LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA, United States

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Jin, P., Lin, S., Zhang, Q. (2017). Spatiotemporal Information for the Web. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_323-1

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