[Spatialml-discussion] GeoCLEF Query Parsing task

[Mani, I. <im...@mi...>]

Dear Colleagues,

[Please ignore if you're already signed up for the GeoCLEF Query
Parsing task!]

I'm writing to invite participation in the Query Parsing track of the
GeoCLEF'2008 workshop (http://ir.shef.ac.uk/geoclef/), a track on
evaluation of multilingual Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR)
systems, part of CLEF, the Cross-Lingual Evaluation Forum
(http://www.clef-campaign.org/). 

So far, 8 groups (I represent one of them) have signed up for the Query
Parsing task, while at least 10 are needed for the task to take place.

The 2008 task is very interesting for those interested in interpreting
spatial language. It involves extracting particular entities,
locations, geo-coordinates, and geographic relationships from a large
set of English search engine queries. Further details of the task,
workshop dates, and organizers' emails are provided at the GeoCLEF URL
above.

Please forward to any colleagues who might be interested.

Thanks,
Inderjeet Mani.