CLEF 2003 | Workshop

 

CLEF 2003 - WORKSHOP

The CLEF 2003 Workshop was held on 21-22 August in Trondheim, Norway, immediately following the seventh European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003).

The aim of the Workshop was to present and discuss the results of the CLEF activity and allow researchers and developers to compare performance between systems using different approaches and strategies.

Final Programme

Thursday, 21 August 2003 
 8.30-9.00   REGISTRATION  
9.00-9.20   Welcome - Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy  
9.20-9.50   Overview of Results - Martin Braschler, Eurospider, Zurich, Switzerland  
9.50-10.30   Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Chair: Martin Braschler, Eurospider, Zurich, Switzerland  
 
10.30-11.00   BREAK  
11.00-13.00   Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Chair: Martin Braschler, Eurospider, Zurich, Switzerland  
 
13.00-14.00   LUNCH  
14.00-15.30   Monolingual and Domain-Specific Information Retrieval
Chair: Michael Kluck, IZ-Bonn, Germany
 
15.30-16.00   BREAK  
16.00-17.30   The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF)
Chairs: Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Madrid, Spain and Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
 
 
17.30-19.30   Poster Session and Reception  
 
Friday, 22 August 2002
9.00-9.30   Invited Talk:
Russian Language in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Resources and Tools in Russia
Natalia Loukachevitch,
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
 
9.30-12.30   New Tracks at CLEF  
9.30-11.00   QA at CLEF
Chair: Bernardo Magnini, ITC-irst, Italy
 
 
11.00-11.30   BREAK  
11.30-12.15   ImageCLEF
Chair: Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK  
 
12.15-13.00   Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval
Chair: Marcello Federico, ITC-irst and Gareth Jones,
 Dublin City University, Ireland
  
13.00-14.00   LUNCH  
14.00-16.00   Afternoon Session
Chair: Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
 
14.00-14.20   What's Happening at NTCIR? Noriko Kando, NII, Tokyo, Japan  
14.20-14.40   An Exit Strategy to Capitalise on the CLEF Evaluation Campaign, Kevin McTait, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France  
14.40-15.00   The 2003 TIDES Surprise Language Exercises, Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA  
15.00-16.00   The Future of CLEF
Proposals and Discussion
 
 
Workshop Steering Committee

Martin Braschler, Eurospider, Switzerland

Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France
Marcello Federico, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
Julio Gonzalo Arroyo, UNED, Madrid, Spain
Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Gareth Jones, U. Exeter, UK
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan

Michael Kluck, IZ Sozialwissenschaften, Bonn, Germany

Bernardo Magnini, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Mark Sanderson, U. Sheffield, UK
Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, US