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GeoCLEF is an evaluation task running under the scope of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information retrieval (GIR). The GeoCLEF 2008 task presented twenty-five geographically challenging search topics for English, German and Portuguese. Eleven participants submitted 131 runs, based on a variety of approaches, including sample documents, named entity extraction and ontology based retrieval. The evaluation methodology and results are presented in the paper.
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Mandl, T. et al. (2009). GeoCLEF 2008: The CLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. CLEF 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_106
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