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CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
GeoCLEF 2008: The CLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview
GeoCLEF is an evaluation initiative for testing queries with a geographic specification in large set of text documents. GeoCLEF ran a regular track for the third time within the C...
Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
190views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Ed H. Chi
JCDL
2010
ACM
259views Education» more  JCDL 2010»
14 years 18 days ago
Exploiting time-based synonyms in searching document archives
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
118views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
NAGA: harvesting, searching and ranking knowledge
The presence of encyclopedic Web sources, such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), World Factbook, etc. calls for new querying techniques that are simple and yet mor...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
139views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
User-Contributed Descriptive Metadata for Libraries and Cultural Institutions
: The Library of Congress and other cultural institutions are collecting highly informative user-contributed metadata as comments and notes expressing historical and factual inform...
Michael A. Zarro, Robert B. Allen