Lisbon and Al-Manṣūr

From Lisbon to the World...

Better Regulation and the Lisbon Agenda

This paper assesses the congruence between the initiatives for regulatory reform known as ‘better regulation’ and the recently re-formulated ‘growth and jobs’ Lisbon agenda of the European Union. To do that, better regulation is re-conceptualised as metaregulation sets of rules on the process of rule-formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation. Meta-regulation has both structural and ...

Accountability in the post-Lisbon European Union

This special issue takes stock of recent post-Lisbon additions to the European Union’s accountability toolkit. It provides indications that older decision-making tools tend to be more accountable than newer ones, and that, in some areas, decision-making is shifting towards less accountable arenas. This introductory article reviews the debate on the gradual evolution of the European Union’s acco...

The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006

This paper details the participation of the XLDB group from the University of Lisbon at the GeoCLEF task of CLEF 2006. We tested text mining methods that make use of an ontology to extract geographic references from text, assigning documents to encompassing geographic scopes. These scopes are used in document retrieval through a ranking function that combines BM25 text weighting with a similari...

The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2008

This paper reports the participation of the XLDB team from the University of Lisbon at the 2008 GeoCLEF task. We focused on developing a better text annotation tool for geo-parsing the documents, handling both explicit geographic evidence (as given by placenames) and implicit geographic evidence (as given by monuments, for example). The query processing and geographic ranking approaches were re...