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Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics

Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2012, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Tiziana Catarci

    1. Department of Computer, Control and Management, Engenerring Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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  2. Pamela Forner

    1. Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Povo, Italy

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  3. Djoerd Hiemstra

    1. Department of Computer Science, Database Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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  4. Anselmo Peñas

    1. UNED Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Research Group, E.T.S.I. Informática de la UNED, Madrid, Spain

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  5. Giuseppe Santucci

    1. Department of Computer, Control and Management, Engeneering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7488)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Benchmarking and Evaluation Initiatives

    1. Analysis and Refinement of Cross-Lingual Entity Linking

      • Taylor Cassidy, Heng Ji, Hongbo Deng, Jing Zheng, Jiawei Han
      Pages 1-12

    2. Seven Years of INEX Interactive Retrieval Experiments – Lessons and Challenges

      • Ragnar Nordlie, Nils Pharo
      Pages 13-23

    3. Bringing the Algorithms to the Data: Cloud–Based Benchmarking for Medical Image Analysis

      • Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller, Georg Langs, Marc André Weber, Bjoern H. Menze, Tomas Salas Fernandez
      Pages 24-29

    4. Going beyond CLEF-IP: The ‘Reality’ for Patent Searchers?

      • Julia J. Jürgens, Preben Hansen, Christa Womser-Hacker
      Pages 30-35

    5. MusiClef: Multimodal Music Tagging Task

      • Nicola Orio, Cynthia C. S. Liem, Geoffroy Peeters, Markus Schedl
      Pages 36-41

  3. Information Access

    1. Generating Pseudo Test Collections for Learning to Rank Scientific Articles

      • Richard Berendsen, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, Edgar Meij
      Pages 42-53

    2. Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study

      • Florina Piroi, Mihai Lupu, Allan Hanbury
      Pages 54-66

    3. Cross-Language High Similarity Search Using a Conceptual Thesaurus

      • Parth Gupta, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso
      Pages 67-75

    4. The Appearance of the Giant Component in Descriptor Graphs and Its Application for Descriptor Selection

      • Anita Keszler, Levente Kovács, Tamás Szirányi
      Pages 76-81

    5. Hidden Markov Model for Term Weighting in Verbose Queries

      • Xueliang Yan, Guanglai Gao, Xiangdong Su, Hongxi Wei, Xueliang Zhang, Qianqian Lu
      Pages 82-87

  4. Evaluation Methodologies and Infrastructure

    1. DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure

      • Maristella Agosti, Emanuele Di Buccio, Nicola Ferro, Ivano Masiero, Simone Peruzzo, Gianmaria Silvello
      Pages 88-99

    2. Penalty Functions for Evaluation Measures of Unsegmented Speech Retrieval

      • Petra Galuščáková, Pavel Pecina, Jan Hajič
      Pages 100-111

    3. Cumulated Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation

      • Marco Angelini, Nicola Ferro, Kalervo Järvelin, Heikki Keskustalo, Ari Pirkola, Giuseppe Santucci et al.
      Pages 112-123

    4. Better than Their Reputation? On the Reliability of Relevance Assessments with Students

      • Philipp Schaer
      Pages 124-135

  5. Posters

    1. Comparing IR System Components Using Beanplots

      • Jens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl
      Pages 136-137

    2. Language Independent Query Focused Snippet Generation

      • Pinaki Bhaskar, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
      Pages 138-140

    3. A Test Collection to Evaluate Plagiarism by Missing or Incorrect References

      • Solange de L. Pertile, Viviane P. Moreira
      Pages 141-143

  6. Back Matter

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012. The 14 papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Furthermore, the books contains 2 keynote papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: benchmarking and evaluation initiatives; information access; and evaluation methodologies and infrastructure.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer, Control and Management, Engenerring Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Tiziana Catarci

  • Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Povo, Italy

    Pamela Forner

  • Department of Computer Science, Database Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Djoerd Hiemstra

  • UNED Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Research Group, E.T.S.I. Informática de la UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Anselmo Peñas

  • Department of Computer, Control and Management, Engeneering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Santucci

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