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Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images

5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Carol Peters

    1. ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

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  2. Paul Clough

    1. Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  3. Julio Gonzalo

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  4. Gareth J. F. Jones

    1. Centre for Digital Video Processing & School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

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  5. Michael Kluck

    1. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany

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  6. Bernardo Magnini

    1. ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3491)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (81 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. What Happened in CLEF 2004?

    1. What Happened in CLEF 2004?

      • Carol Peters
      Pages 1-9

  3. Part I. Ad Hoc Text Retrieval Tracks

    1. CLEF 2004: Ad Hoc Track Overview and Results Analysis

      • Martin Braschler, Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters
      Pages 10-26

    2. Mainly Cross-Language Experiments

      1. Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval
        • Jacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger
        Pages 27-37
      2. Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Deviation from Randomness
        • Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Gilles Sérasset
        Pages 38-49
      3. Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT at CLEF 2004
        • Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
        Pages 50-59
      4. Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources
        • G. M. Di Nunzio, N. Ferro, N. Orio
        Pages 60-72
      5. Application of Variable Length <i>N</i>-Gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval
        • Daniel Gayo-Avello, Darío Álvarez-Gutiérrez, José Gayo-Avello
        Pages 73-82
      6. Integrating New Languages in a Multilingual Search System Based on a Deep Linguistic Analysis
        • Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr
        Pages 83-89
      7. IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages
        • Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol, Elisa Noguera
        Pages 90-99
      8. Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF
        • David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George Foster, Claude St-Jacques
        Pages 100-109
      9. Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004
        • Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams
        Pages 110-122
      10. Effective Translation, Tokenization and Combination for Cross-Lingual Retrieval
        • Jaap Kamps, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Maarten de Rijke
        Pages 123-134
      11. Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2004
        • Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando, Kuang-Hua Chen
        Pages 135-142
      12. Dictionary-Based Amharic – English Information Retrieval
        • Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren
        Pages 143-149
      13. Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation
        • Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Timo Järvinen, Rickard Cöster
        Pages 150-155
      14. SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with a Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm
        • Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Miguel A. García-Cumbreras, Manuel C. Díaz-Galiano, L. Alfonso Ureña
        Pages 156-164
      15. Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim
        • René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
        Pages 165-169
      16. University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-Language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval
        • Gina-Anne Levow, Irina Matveeva
        Pages 170-179
      17. UB at CLEF2004: Cross Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical Language Models
        • Miguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth
        Pages 180-187
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The ?fth campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for Eu- pean languages was held from January to September 2004. Participation in the CLEF campaigns has increased each year and CLEF 2004 was no exception: 55 groups submitted results for one or more of the di?erent tracks compared with 42 groups in the previous year. CLEF 2004 also marked a breaking point with respect to previous campaigns. The focus was no longer mainly concentrated on multilingual document retrieval as in previous years but was diversi?ed to include di?erent kinds of text retrieval across languages (e. g. , exact answers in the question-answering track) and retrieval on di?erent kinds of media (i. e. , not just plain text but collections containing image and speech as well). In ad- tion, increasing attention was given to issues that regard system usability and user satisfaction with tasks to measure the e?ectiveness of interactive systems or system components being included in both the cross-language question - swering and image retrieval tasks with the collaboration of the coordinators of the interactive track. The campaign culminated in a two-and-a-half-day workshop held in Bath, UK, 15–17 September, immediately following the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries. The workshop was attended by nearly 100 researchers and s- tem developers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  • Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Paul Clough

  • No Affiliations,  

    Julio Gonzalo

  • Centre for Digital Video Processing & School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  • German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany

    Michael Kluck

  • ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy

    Bernardo Magnini

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