Using the WordNet Ontology in the GeoCLEF Geographical Information Retrieval Task

This paper describes how we managed to use the WordNet ontology for the GeoCLEF 2005 English monolingual task. Both a query expansion method, based on the expansion of geographical terms by means of WordNet synonyms and meronyms, and a method based on

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal
• Keywords: CLEF 2005, English Monolingual Task, Query Expansion Method, WordNet Ontology