This paper presents the development of a WebGIS application aimed at providing safe and reliable data needed for reclamation of abandoned mines in national parks and other protected areas in Vojvodina in compliance with existing legal regulations. The geodatabase model for this application has been developed using UML and the CASE tool Microsoft Visio featuring an interface with ArcGIS. The WebGIS application was developed using GeoServer, an open source tool in the Java programming language, with integrated PostgreSQL DB and the possibility of generating and publishing WMS, WFS and KML services. The WebGIS application is publicly available, based on an appropriate central database, which for the first time encompasses all available data on abandoned mines in Vojvodina, and as such may serve as a model for similar databases on the territory of the Republic of Serbia.

In this paper we describe an approach to improvement of information retrieval results for large textual databases by pre-indexing documents using bag-of-words and named entity recognition. The approach was applied on a database of geological projects financed by the Republic of Serbia for several decades now. Each document within this database is described by a summary report, consisting of metadata on the geological project, such as title, domain, keywords, abstract, and geographical location. A bag of words was produced from these metadata with the help of morphological dictionaries and transducers, while named entities were recognized using a rule-based system. Both were then used for pre-indexing documents for information retrieval purposes where ranking of retrieved documents was based on several \(tf\_idf\) based measures. Evaluation of ranked retrieval results based on data obtained by pre-indexing were compared to results obtained by informational retrieval without pre-indexing with precision-recall curve, showing a significant improvement in terms of the mean average precision measure.

Purpose: This paper aims to develop a system, which would enable efficient management and exploitation of documentation in electronic form, related to mining projects, with information retrieval and information extraction (IE) features, using various language resources and natural language processing. Design/methodology/approach: The system is designed to integrate textual, lexical, semantic and terminological resources, enabling advanced document search and extraction of information. These resources are integrated with a set of Web services and applications, for different user profiles and use-cases. Findings: The use of the system is illustrated by examples demonstrating keyword search supported by Web query expansion services, search based on regular expressions, corpus search based on local grammars, followed by extraction of information based on this search and finally, search with lexical masks using domain and semantic markers. Originality/value: The presented system is the first software solution for implementation of human language technology in management of documentation from the mining engineering domain, but it is also applicable to other engineering and non-engineering domains. The system is independent of the type of alphabet (Cyrillic and Latin), which makes it applicable to other languages of the Balkan region related to Serbian, and its support for morphological dictionaries can be applied in most morphologically complex languages, such as Slavic languages. Significant search improvements and the efficiency of IE are based on semantic networks and terminology dictionaries, with the support of local grammars.