Machine-learned ranking techniques automatically learn a complex document ranking function given training data. These techniques have demonstrated the effectiveness and flexibilit...
Jing Bai, Fernando Diaz, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, ...
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
The generation of better label placement configurations in maps is a problem that comes up in automated cartographic production. The objective of a good label placement is to displ...
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...