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This paper describes the Social Networks and Archival Context project, built on a database of merged Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) records derived from Encoded Archival Description (EAD)... more
This paper describes the Social Networks and Archival Context project, built on a database of merged Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) records derived from Encoded Archival Description (EAD) records held by the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the Northwest Digital Archives, and Virginia Heritage, combined with information from name authority files from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Name Authority File), OCLC Research (The Virtual International Authority File), and the Getty Vocabulary Program (Union List of Artist Names). The database merges information from each instance of an individual name found in the EAD resources, along with variant names, biographical notes and their topical descriptions. The SNAC prototype interface makes this information searchable and browseable while retaining links to the various data sources.
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A major effort in the Sequoia 2000 project was to build a very large database of EarthScience information. However, without the means to efficiently and effectively locate requiredinformation and to browse its contents, this vast database... more
A major effort in the Sequoia 2000 project was to build a very large database of EarthScience information. However, without the means to efficiently and effectively locate requiredinformation and to browse its contents, this vast database would rapidly become unmanagableand eventually unusable. The "Electronic Repository" project of Sequoia 2000 was intendedto address these problems by the development of indexing and
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For TREC-7, the Berkeley ad-hoc experiments explored more phrase discovery in topics and documents. We utilized Boolean retrieval combined with probabilistic ranking for 17 topics in ad-hoc manual entry. Our cross-language experiments... more
For TREC-7, the Berkeley ad-hoc experiments explored more phrase discovery in topics and documents. We utilized Boolean retrieval combined with probabilistic ranking for 17 topics in ad-hoc manual entry. Our cross-language experiments tested 3 different widely available ...
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Libraries need to support geographic search. The traditional reliance on place names and political jurisdictions needs to be complemented by greater attention to space, using latitude and longitude. If place name au-thority files are... more
Libraries need to support geographic search. The traditional reliance on place names and political jurisdictions needs to be complemented by greater attention to space, using latitude and longitude. If place name au-thority files are linked to (or developed into) place name ...
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... Ray R. Larson1, Fredric C. Gey2, and Vivien Petras1 ... France Georgia Germany Gibral-tar Greece Guernsey and Alderney Hungary Iceland Ireland Isle of Man Italy Jersey Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova... more
... Ray R. Larson1, Fredric C. Gey2, and Vivien Petras1 ... France Georgia Germany Gibral-tar Greece Guernsey and Alderney Hungary Iceland Ireland Isle of Man Italy Jersey Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands Norway ...
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GeoCLEF is a new track for CLEF 2005. GeoCLEF was run as a pilot track to evaluate retrieval of multilingual documents with an emphasis on geographic search. Existing evaluation campaigns such as TREC and CLEF do not explicitly evaluate... more
GeoCLEF is a new track for CLEF 2005. GeoCLEF was run as a pilot track to evaluate retrieval of multilingual documents with an emphasis on geographic search. Existing evaluation campaigns such as TREC and CLEF do not explicitly evaluate geographical relevance. The aim of GeoCLEF is to provide the necessary framework in which to evaluate GIR systems for search tasks involving both spatial and multilingual aspects. Participants were
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... Ray R. Larson1, Fredric C. Gey2, and Vivien Petras1 ... France Georgia Germany Gibral-tar Greece Guernsey and Alderney Hungary Iceland Ireland Isle of Man Italy Jersey Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova... more
... Ray R. Larson1, Fredric C. Gey2, and Vivien Petras1 ... France Georgia Germany Gibral-tar Greece Guernsey and Alderney Hungary Iceland Ireland Isle of Man Italy Jersey Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands Norway ...
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This paper describes the combined submissions of the Berkeley group for the domain-specific track at CLEF 2005. The data fusion technique being tested is the fusion of multiple probabilistic searches against different XML components using... more
This paper describes the combined submissions of the Berkeley group for the domain-specific track at CLEF 2005. The data fusion technique being tested is the fusion of multiple probabilistic searches against different XML components using both Logistic Regression (LR) algorithms and a version of the Okapi BM-25 algorithm. We also combine multiple translations of queries in cross-language searching. The second technique analyzed is query enhancement with domain-specific metadata (thesaurus terms). We describe our technique of Entry Vocabulary Modules, which associates query words with thesaurus terms and suggest its use for monolingual as well as bilingual retrieval. Different weighting and merging schemes for adding keywords to queries as well as translation techniques are described.
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Libraries need to support geographic search. The traditional reliance on place names and political jurisdictions needs to be complemented by greater attention to space, using latitude and longitude. If place name au- thority files are... more
Libraries need to support geographic search. The traditional reliance on place names and political jurisdictions needs to be complemented by greater attention to space, using latitude and longitude. If place name au- thority files are linked to (or developed into) place name gazetteers, spatial coordinates can be added, places can be located in space, similar and multiple place names can
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This demonstration utilizes a geographic information system interface to display multilingual news documents in time and space by extracting place names from text and matching them to a multilingual multi-script gazetteer which identifies... more
This demonstration utilizes a geographic information system interface to display multilingual news documents in time and space by extracting place names from text and matching them to a multilingual multi-script gazetteer which identifies the latitude and longitude of the location.
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Research Interests: Information Systems, Cognitive Psychology, Information Retrieval, Usability, Accessibility, and 12 moreMetadata, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Identity, Linguistics, Semantic Web, HCI, Library and Information Studies, Cross Cultural Communication, Search Engine, The, Next Generation, and Client-Server Architecture
... Authors: Patricia Frontiera, Geographic Information Science Center, 412 Wurster Hall, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720. Ray Larson, School of Information, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600. ... Ray... more
... Authors: Patricia Frontiera, Geographic Information Science Center, 412 Wurster Hall, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720. Ray Larson, School of Information, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600. ... Ray Larson No contact information provided yet. ...
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Michael Buckland is Emeritus Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley; Aitao Chen is affiliated with Yahoo! Inc.; Fredric C. Gey is Information Scientist in UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance at... more
Michael Buckland is Emeritus Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley; Aitao Chen is affiliated with Yahoo! Inc.; Fredric C. Gey is Information Scientist in UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance at the University of California, Berkeley; Ray ...
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While the primary INEX test collection is based on a single DTD, it is realistic to assume that most XML collections consist of documents from different sources. This leads to a heterogeneity of syntax, semantics and document genre. In... more
While the primary INEX test collection is based on a single DTD, it is realistic to assume that most XML collections consist of documents from different sources. This leads to a heterogeneity of syntax, semantics and document genre. In order to cope with the challenges posed by such a diverse environment, the heterogeneous track was offered at INEX 2006. Within this track, we set up a collection consisting of several different and diverse collections. We defined retrieval tasks and identified a set of topics. These are the foundations for future run submissions, relevance assessments and proper evaluation of the proposed methods dealing with a heterogeneous collection.