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Information Access Evaluation -- Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Evangelos Kanoulas

    1. Google Inc., Zurich, Switzerland

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  2. Mihai Lupu

    1. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Paul Clough

    1. Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  4. Mark Sanderson

    1. Department of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  5. Mark Hall

    1. Department of Computing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK

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  6. Allan Hanbury

    1. Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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  7. Elaine Toms

    1. Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8685)

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

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Evaluation

    1. Making Test Corpora for Question Answering More Representative

      • Andrew Walker, Andrew Starkey, Jeff Z. Pan, Advaith Siddharthan
      Pages 1-6

    2. Towards Automatic Evaluation of Health-Related CQA Data

      • Alexander Beloborodov, Pavel Braslavski, Marina Driker
      Pages 7-18

    3. Rethinking How to Extend Average Precision to Graded Relevance

      • Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Maria Maistro
      Pages 19-30

    4. CLEF 15th Birthday: What Can We Learn From Ad Hoc Retrieval?

      • Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello
      Pages 31-43

    5. An Information Retrieval Ontology for Information Retrieval Nanopublications

      • Aldo Lipani, Florina Piroi, Linda Andersson, Allan Hanbury
      Pages 44-49

    6. Supporting More-Like-This Information Needs: Finding Similar Web Content in Different Scenarios

      • Matthias Hagen, Christiane Glimm
      Pages 50-61

  3. Domain-Specific Approaches

    1. SCAN: A Swedish Clinical Abbreviation Normalizer

      • Maria Kvist, Sumithra Velupillai
      Pages 62-73

    2. A Study of Personalised Medical Literature Search

      • Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Jon Brassey
      Pages 74-85

    3. A Hybrid Approach for Multi-faceted IR in Multimodal Domain

      • Serwah Sabetghadam, Ralf Bierig, Andreas Rauber
      Pages 86-97

    4. Discovering Similar Passages within Large Text Documents

      • Demetrios Glinos
      Pages 98-109

    5. Improving Transcript-Based Video Retrieval Using Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation

      • Thomas Wilhelm-Stein, Robert Herms, Marc Ritter, Maximilian Eibl
      Pages 110-115

  4. Alternative Search Tasks

    1. Self-supervised Relation Extraction Using UMLS

      • Roland Roller, Mark Stevenson
      Pages 116-127

    2. Authorship Identification Using Dynamic Selection of Features from Probabilistic Feature Set

      • Hamed Zamani, Hossein Nasr Esfahani, Pariya Babaie, Samira Abnar, Mostafa Dehghani, Azadeh Shakery
      Pages 128-140

    3. A Real-World Framework for Translator as Expert Retrieval

      • Navid Rekabsaz, Mihai Lupu
      Pages 141-152

    4. Comparing Algorithms for Microblog Summarisation

      • Stuart Mackie, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
      Pages 153-159

    5. The Effect of Dimensionality Reduction on Large Scale Hierarchical Classification

      • Aris Kosmpoulos, Georgios Paliouras, Ion Androutsopoulos
      Pages 160-171

  5. CLEF Lab Overviews

    1. Overview of the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014

      • Liadh Kelly, Lorraine Goeuriot, Hanna Suominen, Tobias Schreck, Gondy Leroy, Danielle L. Mowery et al.
      Pages 172-191

    2. ImageCLEF 2014: Overview and Analysis of the Results

      • Barbara Caputo, Henning Müller, Jesus Martinez-Gomez, Mauricio Villegas, Burak Acar, Novi Patricia et al.
      Pages 192-211

    3. Overview of INEX 2014

      • Patrice Bellot, Toine Bogers, Shlomo Geva, Mark Hall, Hugo Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps et al.
      Pages 212-228
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, held in Sheffield, UK, in September 2014. The 11 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They cover a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, also included are a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language information retrieval systems

Editors and Affiliations

  • Google Inc., Zurich, Switzerland

    Evangelos Kanoulas

  • Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Mihai Lupu

  • Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Paul Clough, Elaine Toms

  • Department of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Mark Sanderson

  • Department of Computing, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK

    Mark Hall

  • Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Allan Hanbury

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