TALP at GeoQuery 2007: Linguistic and Geographical Analysis for Query Parsing

This paper describes our experiments on the Geographical Query Parsing pilot-task for English at GeoCLEF 2007. Our system uses some modules of a Geographical Information Retrieval system presented at GeoCLEF 2006 [3] and modified for GeoCLEF 2007. The system uses deep linguistic analysis and Geographical Knowledge to perform the task. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing; H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval; H.3.4 Systems and Software General Terms Design, Performance, Experimentation Keywords report. Information Retrieval, Passage Retrieval, Geographical Thesaurus, Gazetteers, Feature Type Thesaurus, Named Entity Recognition and Classification

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
• Keywords: CLEF 2007, Geographical Information Retrieval, Geographical Query, Information Retrieval