Thomas Mandl
Abstract
Geographic terms appear very often in user queries. Many geographic references are present in query log-files. Examples found in different log files [6] include question answering style queries such as "What time is it in West Samoa?", terms within book titles like "Death in Venice", detailed street addresses and single term city names.
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rd Intl Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (NTCIR-8 Pre-Meeting Workshop) June 2010 National Institute of Informatics (NII) Tokyo, Japan, June 15--18, 2010. http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings8/EVIA/09-EVIA2010-LammK.pdfGoogle Scholar
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- Mandl, T; Carvalho, P; Gey, F.; Di Nunzio, G.; Larson, R.; Santos, D. and Womser-Hacker, C. 2009. GeoCLEF 2008: the CLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. In: Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access: 9
th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin et al.: Springer {LNCS 5706} pp. 808--821. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sutcliffe, R., Kruschwitz, U. and Mandl, T. 2010. Web Logs and Question Answering. In: Proc Web Logs and Question Answering (WLQA2010) Workshop at the Seventh Intl Conf on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) Malta, 22nd May. pp. 1--7. http://www.csis.ul.ie/wlqa2010/proceedings.htmGoogle Scholar
Index Terms
- Evaluating GIR: geography-oriented or user-oriented?
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