GIR experiments with Forostar

Overell, Simon; Magalhães, João and Rüger, Stefan (2008). GIR experiments with Forostar. In: Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, pp. 856–863.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_110

Abstract

In this paper we present Forostar, our GIR system. Forostar augments a traditional IR VSM approach with geographic information.
We detail our placename disambiguation and geographic relevance ranking methods, as well as how textual and geographic relevance assessments are combined. The paper concludes with an analysis of our results including significance testing where we show our baseline method, in fact, to be best. Finally we identify weaknesses in our approach and ways in which the system could be optimised and improved.

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• Item ORO ID
• 29868
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISSN
• 0302-9743
• Extra Information
• Published in: C.Peters et al. (Eds.): CLEF 2007, LNCS 5152, pp. 856-863, 2008
• Keywords
• placename disambiguation; geographic information retrieval
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2008 Springer-Verlag
• Depositing User
• Stefan Rüger