Report of MIRACLE Team for Geographical IR in CLEF 2006

This year we have not changed our previous processing scheme, using the same improvements incorporated last year regarding proper nouns and entities detection and

In the experiment sinaiEnEnExp3 we expand only the title of topic with geographical infor- mation and considered only title and description tags from topics for information

The hypothesis which this paper tries to validate is that text based image retrieval could be improved by the use of semantic information, by means of an expansion algorithm and

With regard to the writing system, Qubee (Latin­based alphabet) has adopted and become the official script of Afaan  Oromo since 1991.  Currently,  Afaan  Oromo 

Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2005, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, Revised Selected Papers (Peters, C..

The main objective of the MIRACLE team participation in GeoCLEF task has been to have a first contact with Geographical Information Retrieval systems, focusing most of the effort

Method A is identical to the approach we have chosen for the medical retrieval task, except that here no textual information was available, and that we used appearance-based

Linguistic Engineering, Information Retrieval, image retrieval, cross-lingual, content-based retrieval, visual, text-based retrieval, textual, relevance feedback, GIFT, KSite,