Preliminary Workshop on Evaluation of Geographic Information Retrieval Systems for Web Documents
Masatoshi Arikawa, Takeshi Sagara, Kouzou Noaki, Hideyuki Fujita · NTCIR · 2004
Geographic Information Task (GeoTask) is one of the newly proposed tasks at the NTCIR-4 WEB. Geographic information is close to our daily lives, and is one of the real ways to access Web information. Researches and developments of such aspects have been increasing recently, however, comparative evaluations of such kinds of techniques has not been carried out so far. GeoTask focused on the technology that the system extracts geographic information from Web documents relevant to a given viewpoint. The aim of this workshop is to expedite and advance researches and developments of Geographic IR technologies for the Web, therefore we are going to build reusable test collection for evaluating various methods of Geographic IR for Web documents. In this paper, challenges for searching geographic information are described, which are discussed through the explanation of our research on developing geographic IR systems.