Robust location search from text queries
Vibhuti S. Sengar, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph M. Joy, Samarth Prakash, Kentaro Toyama · 2007
Robust, global, address geocoding is challenging because there is no single address format that applies to all geographies, and in any case, users may not restrict themselves to well-formed addresses. Particularly in online mapping systems, users frequently enter queries with missing or conflicting information, misspellings, address transpositions, and other such variations.