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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

8th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2017, Dublin, Ireland, September 11–14, 2017, Proceedings

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Table of contents (32 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
  2. Full Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Pinch of Humor for Short-Text Conversation: An Information Retrieval Approach

      • Vladislav Blinov, Kirill Mishchenko, Valeria Bolotova, Pavel Braslavski
      Pages 3-15
    3. IRIT-QFR: IRIT Query Feature Resource

      • Serge Molina, Josiane Mothe, Dorian Roques, Ludovic Tanguy, Md Zia Ullah
      Pages 69-81
    4. Evaluating and Improving the Extraction of Mathematical Identifier Definitions

      • Moritz Schubotz, Leonard Krämer, Norman Meuschke, Felix Hamborg, Bela Gipp
      Pages 82-94
  3. Short Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
    2. Query Expansion for Sentence Retrieval Using Pseudo Relevance Feedback and Word Embedding

      • Piyush Arora, Jennifer Foster, Gareth J. F. Jones
      Pages 97-103
    3. WebShodh: A Code Mixed Factoid Question Answering System for Web

      • Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Manoj Chinnakotla, Alan W. Black, Manish Shrivastava
      Pages 104-111
    4. Extracting Graph Topological Information and Users’ Opinion

      • Mirko Lai, Marcella Tambuscio, Viviana Patti, Giancarlo Ruffo, Paolo Rosso
      Pages 112-118
    5. Estimating the Similarities Between Texts of Right-Handed and Left-Handed Males and Females

      • Tatiana Litvinova, Pavel Seredin, Olga Litvinova, Ekaterina Ryzhkova
      Pages 119-124
    6. Evaluation of Hierarchical Clustering via Markov Decision Processes for Efficient Navigation and Search

      • Raul Moreno, Wěipéng Huáng, Arjumand Younus, Michael O’Mahony, Neil J. Hurley
      Pages 125-131
    7. Plausibility Testing for Lexical Resources

      • Magdalena Parks, Jussi Karlgren, Sara Stymne
      Pages 132-137
    8. An Improved Impostors Method for Authorship Verification

      • Nektaria Potha, Efstathios Stamatatos
      Pages 138-144
    9. Enriching Existing Test Collections with OXPath

      • Philipp Schaer, Mandy Neumann
      Pages 152-158
  4. Best of the Labs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2017.
The 7 full papers and 9 short papers presented together with 6 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. In addition, this volume contains the results of 10 benchmarking labs reporting their year long activities in overview talks and lab sessions. The papers address all aspects of information access in any modality and language and cover a broad range of topics in the field of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Gareth J.F. Jones, Liadh Kelly

  • Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Séamus Lawless

  • National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo

  • Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

    Lorraine Goeuriot

  • University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    Thomas Mandl

  • University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Linda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro

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