GikiP at GeoCLEF 2008: joining GIR and QA forces for querying Wikipedia

  • Authors:

  • Diana Santos;Nuno Cardoso;Paula Carvalho;Iustin Dornescu;Sven Hartrumpf;Johannes Leveling;Yvonne Skalban

  • Affiliations:

  • Linguateca, SINTEF ICT, Norway;Linguateca, SINTEF ICT, Norway and University of Lisbon, DI, LasiGE, XLDB, Linguateca, Portugal;University of Lisbon, DI, LasiGE, XLDB, Linguateca, Portugal;Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, UK;Intelligent Information and Communication Systems, University of Hagen, Germany;Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland;Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, UK

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'08 Proceedings of the 9th Cross-language evaluation forum conference on Evaluating systems for multilingual and multimodal information access
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper reports on the GikiP pilot that took place in 2008 in GeoCLEF. This pilot task requires a combination of methods from geographical information retrieval and question answering to answer queries to the Wikipedia. We start by the task description, providing details on topic choice and evaluation measures. Then we offer a brief motivation from several perspectives, and we present results in detail. A comparison of participants' approaches is then presented, and the paper concludes with improvements for the next edition.