Ad Hoc Determination of Geographic Regions for Concept@Location Queries

Textual geographic queries to search engines usually consist of the desired concept and also of one or more terms describing a location, which is often the name of a city, which in turn can usually be grounded with the help of a gazetteer. On other occasions, though, the location refers to a (vague) geographic region and may also be a vernacular expression for that region, so that this location specification cannot be found in a gazetteer.

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