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CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2008: Text and Fusion Approaches for GIR
In this paper we will briefly describe the approaches taken by Berkeley for the main GeoCLEF 2008 tasks (Mono and Bilingual retrieval). The approach this year used probabilistic t...
Ray R. Larson
GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating field crisping methods for representing spatial prepositions
There is a need for GIR systems to interpret the vague aspects of spatial language. Here we describe an initial approach towards evaluating crisp realisations of a field-based mo...
Mark M. Hall, Christopher B. Jones
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 11 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...
GIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Mining the web to detect place names
With the aim to improve the quality of gazetteers for geographic information retrieval systems, we present a method to detect place names employed by people submitting information...
Florian A. Twaroch, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B...