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[email protected] GeoCLEF 2007: the CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview Thomas Mandl1, Fredric Gey2, Giorgio Di Nunzio3, Nicola Ferro3, Ray Larson2, Mark Sanderson4, Diana Santos5, Christa Womser-Hacker1, Xing Xie6 1Information Science, University of Hildesheim, Germany
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[email protected] Abstract. GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information retrieval (GIR): retrieval for topics with a geographic specification.