CONTENTS
Working Notes for the CLEF 2003
Workshop
21-22 August,
Trondheim, Norway
edited by Carol Peters
Introduction
Carol Peters
PART I: CLEF 2003 Core Tracks
Cross-Language and
More
Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual
Tracks
Jacques Savoy
Eija Airio, Heikki Keskustalo, Turid Hedlund and Ari Pirkola
JHU/APL Experiments in
Tokenization and Non-Word Translation
Paul McNamee and James
Mayfield
Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments:
Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora
Nicola Cancedda, Hervé Déjean,
Éric Gaussier, Jean-Michel Renders and Alexei Vinokourov
Combining Query Translation and
Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval
Aitao Chen and Fredric C. Gey
Cross-Language Experiments with IR-n
System
Fernando Llopis and Rafael
Muñoz
CONTROL: CLEF-2003 with Open,
Transparent Resources Off-Line
Monica Rogati and
Yiming Yang
ITC-irst at CLEF 2003:
Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Information Retrieval
Nicola Bertoldi and
Marcello Federico
The University of Amsterdam at
CLEF 2003
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz,
Maarten de Rijke and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
Multilingual Retrieval Experiments
with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim
René Hackl,
Ralph Kölle, Thomas Mandl, Alexandra Ploedt, Jan-Hendrik Scheufen and Christa
Womser-Hacker
The LIC2M’s CLEF 2003 System
Romaric
Besançon, Gaël de Chalendar, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr, Olivier Mesnard
and Hubert Naets
Report on CLEF 2003 Experiments at
UB
Miguel E. Ruiz
SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding
and Merging
Fernando
Martínez-Santiago, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, L.Alfonso Ureña-López, Manuel Carlos
Díaz-Galiano
Merging Results by Using Predicted
Retrieval Effectiveness
Wen-Cheng Lin and Hsin-Hsi Chen
Evaluation of MIRACLE Approach
Results for CLEF 2003
José Luis
Martínez, Julio Villena Román, Jorge Fombella, Ana G. Serrano, Alberto Ruiz,
Paloma Martínez, José M. Goñi and José C. González
Clairvoyance
CLEF-2003 Experiments
Yan Qu, Greg Grefenstette and
David A. Evans
Kazuaki Kishida and Noriko
Kando
Regular Sound Changes for
Cross-language Information Retrieval
Michael P Oakes and Souvik Banerjee
Adenike M. Lam-Adesina and Gareth J. F.Jones
Multilingual Retrieval in Twente
Franciska de Jong, Dennis
Reidsma and Djoerd Hiemstra
Monolingual
Experiments
Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming
Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at
CLEF 2003
Stephen Tomlinson
Océ at CLEF 2003
Roel Brand, Marvin Brünner,
Samuel Driessen, Pascha Iljin and Jakob Klok
Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual
Information Retrieval
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto and Giovanni
Romano
Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual
Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval
Jacques Savoy
Pruning Texts with NLP and
Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearch
Gil Francopoulo
Selective Compound Splitting of
Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated Terms
Rickard Cöster, Magnus
Sahlgren and Jussi Karlgren
COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003:
Spanish Monolingual Track
Jesús Villares, Miguel A. Alonso and Francisco J. Ribadas
Ricoh at CLEF 2003
Yuichi Kojima, Hideo Itoh,
Hiroko Mano and Yasushi Ogawa
The University of Padova at CLEF
2003: Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer
Generation and Query Word Translation
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio,
Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci and Nicola Orio
Clustering and Retrieval of
Spanish News Documents Using Self Organizing Maps
Javier
Fernández, Ricardo Mones, Irene Díaz, José Ranilla and Elías F. Combarro
MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using
Keyword Disambiguation
Peter van
der Weerd
Mainly
Domain-Specific Information Retrieval
UC Berkeley at CLEF 2003 – Russian
Language Experiments and Domain-Specific Cross-Language Retrieval
Vivine Petras, Natalia
Perelman and Fredric Gey
Data Compression Approach to
Monolingual GIRT Task: an Agnostic Point of View
Daniela Alderuccio,
Luciana Bordoni and Vittorio Loreto
University of Hagen at CLEF 2003: Natural Language Access to
the GIRT4 Data
Johannes Leveling
PART II: CLEF 2003
Additional Tracks
Interactive Track
Douglas W. Oard and Julio Gonzalo,
iCLEF 2003 at Maryland:
Translation Selection and Document Selection
Bonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He, Jun Luo,
Douglas W. Oard, Richard Schwartz, Jianqiang Wang and David Zajic
UNED at iCLEF 2003: Searching
Cross-Language Summaries
Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo
Borja Navarro, Fernando
Llopis and Miguel Ángel Varó
Question Answering
at CLEF
The Multiple Language Question
Answering Track at CLEF 2003
Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli,
Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Vìctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo
and Maarten de Rijke
Creating the DISEQuA Corpus: a
Test Set for Multilingual Question Answering
Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli,
Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Vìctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo
and Maarten de Rijke
Bridging Languages for Question
Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev and
Bernardo Magnini
Cross-Language Question Answering
at the USC Information Sciences Institute
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W.
Oard, Daniel Marcu and Ulf Hermjakob
The University of Amsterdam at
QA@CLEF2003
Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke
Cross Lingual QA: A Modular
Baseline
Lucian Vlad Lita, Monica
Rogati, Jaime Carbonell
Question Answering in Spanish
José
L. Vicedo, Ruben Izquierdo, Fernando Llopis and Rafael Muñoz
Quantum, a French/English
Cross-Language Question Answering System
Luc Plamondon and George Foster
A Cross-Language
Question/Answering-System for German and English
Günter Neumann and Bogdan Sacaleanu
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay and Aoife O'Gorman
ImageCLEF
The CLEF 2003 Cross Language Image
Retrieval Task
Paul Clough and Mark Sanderson
Sheffield at ImageCLEF 2003
Paul Clough and Mark Sanderson
Foreign Name Backward
Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Wen-Cheng Lin,
Changhua Yang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
MIRACLE Evaluation of Results for
ImageCLEF 2003
Julio Villena Román, José Luis
Martínez, Jorge Fombella, Ana G. Serrano, Alberto Ruiz, Paloma Martínez, José M.
Goñi and José C. González
Scene of Crime Information System:
Playing at St. Andrews
Bogdan Vrusias, Mariam Tariq and Lee Gillam
Cross-Language
Spoken Document Retrieval
The CLEF 2003
Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
Marcello Federico and Gareth Jones
Spoken Document Retrieval
Experiments with IR-n System
Fernando Llopis and Patricio Martínez-Barco
EXETER at CLEF 2003:
Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments
Adenike Lam-Adesina and Gareth Jones
PART III:
Evaluation Initiatives and Issues
Proper Names in the Multilingual
CLEF Topic Set
Thomas Mandl and Christa Womser-Hacker
Evaluation of Information Access
Technologies at NTCIR Workshop
Noriko Kando
Monolingual results
Bilingual results
Introduction
List of run characteristics
Overview graphs
Multilingual
Multilingual-8
Multilingual-4
Bilingual
Bilingual to German (DE) target
language
Bilingual to English (EN) target
language
Bilingual to Spanish (ES) target
language
Bilingual to Italian (IT) target
language
Bilingual to Dutch (NL) target
language
Bilingual to Russian (RU) target
language
Monolingual
Monolingual German (DE)
Monolingual English (EN)
Monolingual Spanish (ES)
Monolingual Finnish (FI)
Monolingual French (FR)
Monolingual Italian (IT)
Monolingual Dutch (NL)
Monolingual Russian (RU)
Monolingual Swedish (SV)
GIRT
GIRT to German (DE) target
language
GIRT to English (EN) target
language