A Multi Agent Decision System (MADES) is a Multi Agent System built for decision making, where a single decision is output by the system as a group, although internally many decis...
Abstract. For the 2008 participation at GeoCLEF, we focused on improving the extraction of geographic signatures from documents and optimising their use for GIR. The results show t...
In this paper we discuss the integration of different GIR systems by means of a fuzzy Borda method for result fusion. Two of the systems, the one by the Universidad Polit
Toponym Disambiguation, i.e. the task of assigning to place name their correct reference in the world, is getting more attention from many researchers. Many methods have been prop...
We conduct large-scale search engine relevance experiments, using the 12% of queries that contain placenames, matching the placenames to places in the documents, and examining the...