University of Hagen at GeoCLEF 2005: Using Semantic Networks for Interpreting Geographical Queries

Abstract

The IICS group at the University of Hagen employs multilayered extended semantic networks for the representation of background knowledge, queries, and documents for geographic information retrieval (GIR). This paper describes our work for the participation at the GeoCLEF task of the CLEF 2005 evaluation campaign (Cross Language Evaluation Forum)