Authors
Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Fredric Gey, Ray R Larson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker
Publication date
2009
Conference
Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access: 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers 9
Pages
808-821
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
GeoCLEF is an evaluation task running under the scope of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information retrieval (GIR). The GeoCLEF 2008 task presented twenty-five geographically challenging search topics for English, German and Portuguese. Eleven participants submitted 131 runs, based on a variety of approaches, including sample documents, named entity extraction and ontology based retrieval. The evaluation methodology and results are presented in the paper.
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