Language Technology Seminar Series

Joint LT/NICTA Seminar

Title: SPIRIT - a geographically-based Web search engine

Speaker: Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield)

Location: ICT Building, L2.06

Date: Thursday, 18 November

Time: 1-2pm

Abstract:

In this talk, I will present work being conducted on SPIRIT: a 3 year EU funded research project. The core aim of which is to aid information retrieval searching through the use of ontologies and gazetteers gleaned from geographic resources. Around this aim, a range of research topics have been addressed: query expansion, disambiguation of geographic locations in text, grounding of those locations to a grid reference, extracting geographic information from the Web and evaluating such systems. I will present this research along with demonstrations of the system as it is currently working.

Bio:

Mark Sanderson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield's Information Studies department. He has research information retrieval since 1989, working in the IR groups of the University of Glasgow and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is visiting Melbourne on a 4-month sabbatical.

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