2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
GeoTextMESS: Result Fusion with Fuzzy Borda Ranking in Geographical Information Retrieval
Authors : Davide Buscaldi, José Manuel Perea Ortega, Paolo Rosso, L. Alfonso Ureña López, Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
Published in: Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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 Politécnica de Valencia and the one of the Universidad of Jaén participated to the GeoCLEF task under the name TextMess. The proposed result fusion method takes as input the document lists returned by the different systems and returns a document list where the documents are ranked according to the fuzzy Borda voting scheme. The obtained results show that the fusion method allows to improve the results of the component systems, although the fusion is not optimal, because it is effective only if the components return a similar set of relevant documents.