This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of single word terms as well as word bigrams, and automatic retrieval feedback) to try to improve retrieval performance of queries with geographical references. The main purpose of this work is to identify the strengths and s...

“Describe your occupation in a few words”, is a question answered by 44 000 Swedish twins. Each respondent was then manually categorized according to two established occupation classification systems. Would a clustering algorithm have produced satisfactory results? Usually, this question cannot be answered. The existing quality measures will tell us how much the algorithmic clustering deviates ...

In [PP93] we described a transformational approach to realizing architecture independent parallel execution of a high-level parallel language. Detailed in that document is a series of steps that when applied to highlevel, data-parallel programs written in the Proteus programming language yield parallel execution on a variety of different parallel architectures. The Data Parallel Library (DPL) d...

The chemical information landscape is changing rapidly with a yearly increase of over 1 million new compounds and more than 700,000 publications related to chemistry [1]. Exploring the chemical space covered by relevant journals and patents is a crucial step in early stage medicinal chemistry projects. Extracting chemical entities from unstructured text is a complex task and different approache...