CLEF 2008:
Aarhus,
Denmark
Carol Peters, Thomas Deselaers, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J. F. Jones, Mikko Kurimo, Thomas Mandl, Anselmo Peñas, Vivien Petras (Eds.):
Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5706 Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-04446-5 
Part I:
Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)
TEL@CLEF
- Ray R. Larson:
Logistic Regression for Metadata: Cheshire Takes on Adhoc-TEL.
38-41
- Alessio Bosca, Luca Dini:
Query Expansion via Library Classification System.
42-49
- Jorge Machado, Bruno Martins, José Luis Borbinha:
Experiments on a Multinomial Language Model versus Lucene's Off-the-Shelf Ranking Scheme and Rocchio Query Expansion (TEL@CLEF Monolingual Task).
50-57
- Dong Nguyen, Arnold Overwijk, Claudia Hauff, Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong:
WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Using Only Wikipedia.
58-65
- André Pinto Geraldo, Viviane Pereira Moreira:
UFRGS@CLEF2008: Using Association Rules for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
66-74
- Jens Kürsten, Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl:
CLEF 2008 Ad-Hoc Track: Comparing and Combining Different IR Approaches.
75-82
- Stéphane Clinchant, Jean-Michel Renders:
Multi-language Models and Meta-dictionary Adaptation for Accessing Multilingual Digital Libraries.
83-88
Persian@CLEF
- Reza Karimpour, Amineh Ghorbani, Azadeh Pishdad, Mitra Mohtarami, Abolfazl AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian:
Improving Persian Information Retrieval Systems Using Stemming and Part of Speech Tagging.
89-96
- Zahra Aghazade, Nazanin Dehghani, Leili Farzinvash, Razieh Rahimi, Abolfazl AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian:
Fusion of Retrieval Models at CLEF 2008 Ad Hoc Persian Track.
97-104
- Abolfazl AleAhmad, Ehsan Kamalloo, Arash Zareh, Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian:
Cross Language Experiments at Persian@CLEF 2008.
105-112
Robust-WSD
- Fernando Martínez Santiago, José M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras:
Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Tools for Information Retrieval Task.
113-117
- Eneko Agirre, Arantxa Otegi, German Rigau:
IXA at CLEF 2008 Robust-WSD Task: Using Word Sense Disambiguation for (Cross Lingual) Information Retrieval.
118-125
- Annalina Caputo, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro:
SENSE: SEmantic N-levels Search Engine at CLEF2008 Ad Hoc Robust-WSD Track.
126-133
- Sergio Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz:
IR-n in the CLEF Robust WSD Task 2008.
134-137
- José R. Pérez-Agüera, Hugo Zaragoza:
Query Clauses and Term Independence.
138-145
- Jacques Guyot, Gilles Falquet, Saïd Radhouani, Karim Benzineb:
Analysis of Word Sense Disambiguation-Based Information Retrieval.
146-154
- Andreas Juffinger, Roman Kern, Michael Granitzer:
Crosslanguage Retrieval Based on Wikipedia Statistics.
155-162
Ad Hoc Mixed:
TEL and Persian
Part II:
Mono- and Cross-Language Scientific Data Retrieval (Domain-Specific)
Part III:
Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval (iCLEF)
Part IV:
Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)
- Pamela Forner, Anselmo Peñas, Eneko Agirre, Iñaki Alegria, Corina Forascu, Nicolas Moreau, Petya Osenova, Prokopis Prokopidis, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Erik Tjong Kim Sang:
Overview of the Clef 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track.
262-295
- Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo:
Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2008.
296-313
- Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel, Nicolas Moreau, Djamel Mostefa:
Overview of QAST 2008.
314-324
Mono and Bilingual QA
- Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugénio C. Oliveira:
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR.
325-332
- Sandra Roger, Katia Vila, Antonio Ferrández, María Pardiño, José Manuel Gómez, Marcel Puchol-Blasco, Jesús Peral:
Using AliQAn in Monolingual QA@CLEF 2008.
333-336
- Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, José Pina, Cláudia Pinto:
Priberam's Question Answering System in QA@CLEF 2008.
337-344
- Gracinda Carvalho, David Martins de Matos, Vitor Rocio:
IdSay: Question Answering for Portuguese.
345-352
- Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Josef van Genabith:
Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008.
353-360
- Luís Fernando Costa:
Using Answer Retrieval Patterns to Answer Portuguese Questions.
361-368
- Olatz Ansa, Xabier Arregi, Arantxa Otegi, Ander Soraluze:
Ihardetsi: A Basque Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2008.
369-376
- Luísa Coheur, Ana Mendes, João Guimarães, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro:
Question Interpretation in QA@L2F.
377-384
- Adrian Iftene, Diana Trandabat, Ionut Pistol, Mihai Alex Moruz, Maria Husarciuc, Dan Cristea:
UAIC Participation at QA@CLEF2008.
385-392
- Radu Ion, Dan Stefanescu, Alexandru Ceausu, Dan Tufis:
RACAI's QA System at the Romanian-Romanian QA@CLEF2008 Main Task.
393-400
- Ingo Glöckner, Björn Pelzer:
Combining Logic and Machine Learning for Answering Questions.
401-408
- Ángel Martínez-González, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Concepción Polo-Bayo, Maria Teresa Vicente-Díez, Paloma Martínez Fernández, José Luis Martínez-Fernández:
The MIRACLE Team at the CLEF 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track.
409-420
- Sven Hartrumpf, Ingo Glöckner, Johannes Leveling:
Efficient Question Answering with Question Decomposition and Multiple Answer Streams.
421-428
- Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann, Christian Spurk:
DFKI-LT at QA@CLEF 2008.
429-437
- Rafael M. Terol, Marcel Puchol-Blasco, María Pardiño, José Manuel Gómez, Sandra Roger, Katia Vila, Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral, Patricio Martínez-Barco:
Integrating Logic Forms and Anaphora Resolution in the AliQAn System.
438-441
- Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso:
Some Experiments in Question Answering with a Disambiguated Document Collection.
442-447
Answer Validation Exercise (AVE)
Question Answering on Script Transcription (QAST)
- Sophie Rosset, Olivier Galibert, Guillaume Bernard, Eric Bilinski, Gilles Adda:
The LIMSI Multilingual, Multitask QAst System.
480-487
- María Pardiño, José M. Gómez, Hector Llorens, Rafael M. Terol, Borja Navarro-Colorado, Estela Saquete, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Paloma Moreda, Manuel Palomar:
IBQAst: A Question Answering System for Text Transcriptions.
488-491
- Pere Comas, Jordi Turmo:
Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008.
492-499
Part V:
Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
- Thomas Arni, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Michael Grubinger:
Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2008 Photographic Retrieval Task.
500-511
- Henning Müller, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Charles E. Kahn, William Hatt, Steven Bedrick, William R. Hersh:
Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2008 Medical Image Retrieval Task.
512-522
- Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno:
Medical Image Annotation in ImageCLEF 2008.
523-530
- Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury:
The Visual Concept Detection Task in ImageCLEF 2008.
531-538
- Theodora Tsikrika, Jana Kludas:
Overview of the WikipediaMM Task at ImageCLEF 2008.
539-550
ImageCLEFphoto
- Kosuke Yamauchi, Takuya Nomura, Keiko Usui, Yusuke Kamoi, Tomohiro Takagi:
Meiji University at ImageCLEF2008 Photo Retrieval Task: Evaluation of Image Retrieval Methods Integrating Different Media.
551-559
- Jiayu Tang, Thomas Arni, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough:
Building a Diversity Featured Search System by Fusing Existing Tools.
560-567
- Ana García-Serrano, Xaro Benavent, Ruben Granados, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo:
Some Results Using Different Approaches to Merge Visual and Text-Based Features in CLEF'08 Photo Collection.
568-571
- Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Carlos González Cristóbal:
MIRACLE-GSI at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: Different Strategies for Automatic Topic Expansion.
572-576
- Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Christophe Marsala, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari:
Using Visual Concepts and Fast Visual Diversity to Improve Image Retrieval.
577-584
- Sabrina Tollari, Philippe Mulhem, Marin Ferecatu, Hervé Glotin, Marcin Detyniecki, Patrick Gallinari, Hichem Sahbi, Zhong-Qiu Zhao:
A Comparative Study of Diversity Methods for Hybrid Text and Image Retrieval Approaches.
585-592
- Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
University of Jaén at ImagePhoto 2008: Filtering the Results with the Cluster Term.
593-596
- Sergio Navarro, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Fernando Llopis, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Rafael Muñoz, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Arturo Montejo Ráez:
Combining TEXT-MESS Systems at ImageCLEF 2008.
597-604
- Osama El Demerdash, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler:
Image Retrieval by Inter-media Fusion and Pseudo-relevance Feedback.
605-611
- Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
Increasing Precision and Diversity in Photo Retrieval by Result Fusion.
612-619
- Neil O'Hare, Peter Wilkins, Cathal Gurrin, Eamonn Newman, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton:
Diversity in Image Retrieval: DCU at ImageCLEFPhoto 2008.
620-627
- Hervé Glotin, Zhong-Qiu Zhao:
Visual Affinity Propagation Improves Sub-topics Diversity without Loss of Precision in Web Photo Retrieval.
628-631
- Ainhoa Llorente, Simon E. Overell, Haiming Liu, Rui Hu, Adam Rae, Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger:
Exploiting Term Co-occurrence for Enhancing Automated Image Annotation.
632-639
- Zhong-Qiu Zhao, Hervé Glotin:
Enhancing Visual Concept Detection by a Novel Matrix Modular Scheme on SVM.
640-643
- Bálint Daróczy, Zsolt Fekete, Mátyás Brendel, Simon Rácz, András A. Benczúr, Dávid Siklósi, Attila Pereszlényi:
SZTAKI @ ImageCLEF 2008: Visual Feature Analysis in Segmented Images.
644-651
- Stefanie Nowak, Peter Dunker, Ronny Paduschek:
THESEUS Meets ImageCLEF: Combining Evaluation Strategies for a New Visual Concept Detection Task 2009.
652-660
- Masashi Inoue, Piyush Grover:
Query Types and Visual Concept-Based Post-retrieval Clustering.
661-668
- Hugo Jair Escalante, Jesús A. González, Carlos A. Hernández, Aurelio López-López, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Eduardo F. Morales, Luis Enrique Sucar, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
Annotation-Based Expansion and Late Fusion of Mixed Methods for Multimedia Image Retrieval.
669-676
- Julien Ah-Pine, Gabriela Csurka, Jean-Michel Renders:
Evaluation of Diversity-Focused Strategies for Multimedia Retrieval.
677-684
- Diana Inkpen, Marc Stogaitis, François DeGuire, Muath Alzghool:
Clustering for Photo Retrieval at Image CLEF 2008.
685-690
ImageCLEFmed
- Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem:
Methods for Combining Content-Based and Textual-Based Approaches in Medical Image Retrieval.
691-695
- Tatiana Tommasi, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo:
An SVM Confidence-Based Approach to Medical Image Annotation.
696-703
- Loïc Maisonnasse, Philippe Mulhem, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Pierre Chevallet:
LIG at ImageCLEF 2008.
704-711
- Xin Zhou, Julien Gobeill, Henning Müller:
The MedGIFT Group at ImageCLEF 2008.
712-718
- Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFmed 2008: Semantic vs. Statistical Strategies for Topic Expansion.
719-723
- Jose L. Delgado, Covadonga Rodrigo, Gonzalo León:
Experiments in Calibration and Validation for Medical Content-Based Images Retrieval.
724-727
- Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFannot 2008: Nearest Neighbour Classification of Image Feature Vectors for Medical Image Annotation.
728-731
- Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Arturo Montejo Ráez:
Query Expansion on Medical Image Retrieval: MeSH vs. UMLS.
732-735
- Julien Gobeill, Patrick Ruch, Xin Zhou:
Query and Document Expansion with Medical Subject Headings Terms at Medical Imageclef 2008.
736-743
- Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Steven Bedrick, William Hatt, William Hersh:
Multimodal Medical Image Retrieval OHSU at ImageCLEF 2008.
744-751
- Mark Oliver Güld, Petra Welter, Thomas Martin Deserno:
Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2008 Medical Automatic Annotation Task in Comparison over the Years.
752-755
ImageCLEFWiki
- Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem:
Evaluating the Impact of Image Names in Context-Based Image Retrieval.
756-762
- Zhi Zhou, YongHong Tian, Yuanning Li, Tiejun Huang, Wen Gao:
Large-Scale Cross-Media Retrieval of WikipediaMM Images with Textual and Visual Query Expansion.
763-770
- Adrian Popescu, Hervé Le Borgne, Pierre-Alain Moëllic:
Conceptual Image Retrieval over a Large Scale Database.
771-778
- Christophe Moulin, Cécile Barat, Mathias Géry, Christophe Ducottet, Christine Largeron:
UJM at ImageCLEFwiki 2008.
779-786
Part VI:
Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)
- Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
Overview of WebCLEF 2008.
787-793
- Arnold Overwijk, Dong Nguyen, Claudia Hauff, Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong:
On the Evaluation of Snippet Selection for WebCLEF.
794-797
- Enrique Amigó, Juan Martinez-Romo, Lourdes Araujo, Víctor Peinado:
UNED at WebCLEF 2008: Applying High Restrictive Summarization, Low Restrictive Information Retrieval and Multilingual Techniques.
798-801
- Carlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Montserrat Mateos Sánchez:
Retrieval of Snippets of Web Pages Converted to Plain Text. More Questions Than Answers.
802-807
Part VII:
Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
- Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker:
GeoCLEF 2008: The CLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview.
808-821
- Rocio Guillén:
GIR with Language Modeling and DFR Using Terrier.
822-829
- Ray R. Larson:
Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2008: Text and Fusion Approaches for GIR.
830-837
- Simon E. Overell, Adam Rae, Stefan M. Rüger:
Geographic and Textual Data Fusion in Forostar.
838-842
- Qiang Pu, Daqing He, Qi Li:
Query Expansion for Effective Geographic Information Retrieval.
843-850
- Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf:
Integrating Methods from IR and QA for Geographic Information Retrieval.
851-854
- José M. Perea-Ortega, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Manuel García Vega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras:
Using Query Reformulation and Keywords in the Geographic Information Retrieval Task.
855-862
- Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso:
Using GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval.
863-866
- Davide Buscaldi, José M. Perea-Ortega, Paolo Rosso, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez:
GeoTextMESS: Result Fusion with Fuzzy Borda Ranking in Geographical Information Retrieval.
867-874
- Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
A Ranking Approach Based on Example Texts for Geographic Information Retrieval.
875-879
- Rui Wang, Günter Neumann:
Ontology-Based Query Construction for GeoCLEF.
880-884
- Nuno Cardoso, Patrícia Sousa, Mário J. Silva:
Experiments with Geographic Evidence Extracted from Documents.
885-893
- Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso, Paula Carvalho, Iustin Dornescu, Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling, Yvonne Skalban:
GikiP at GeoCLEF 2008: Joining GIR and QA Forces for Querying Wikipedia.
894-905
Part VIII:
Cross-Language Video Retrieval (VideoCLEF)
- Martha Larson, Eamonn Newman, Gareth J. F. Jones:
Overview of VideoCLEF 2008: Automatic Generation of Topic-Based Feeds for Dual Language Audio-Visual Content.
906-917
- Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano:
MIRACLE at VideoCLEF 2008: Topic Identification and Keyframe Extraction in Dual Language Videos.
918-922
- Eamonn Newman, Gareth J. F. Jones:
DCU at VideoClef 2008.
923-926
- José M. Perea-Ortega, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Using an Information Retrieval System for Video Classification.
927-930
- Jens Kürsten, Daniel Richter, Maximilian Eibl:
VideoCLEF 2008: ASR Classification with Wikipedia Categories.
931-934
- Jiyin He, Xu Zhang, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson:
Metadata and Multilinguality in Video Classification.
935-938
Part IX:
Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF)
Part X:
Morpho Challenge at CLEF 2008
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