Abstract. For the 2008 participation at GeoCLEF, we focused on improving the extraction of geographic signatures from documents and optimising their use for GIR. The results show t...
A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
The use of quality information for multilevel speaker recognition systems is addressed in this contribution. From a definition of what constitutes a quality measure, two applicati...
The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtua...
A novel fact extraction task is defined to fill a gap between current information retrieval and information extraction technologies. It is shown that it is possible to extract usef...
Andrew Salway, Liadh Kelly, Inguna Skadina, Gareth...