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Final Programme

Wednesday, 15 September 2004
12.00-14.30		REGISTRATION
14.30-14.50		Welcome - Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
14.50-18.00		AdHoc Plenary Session: Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Experiments Chair: Martin Braschler, Eurospider, Zurich, Switzerland
14.50-15.20		► Ad Hoc Track Overview - Martin Braschler, Eurospider, Zurich, Switzerland
15.20-16.00		► Multilingual Search using Query Translation and Collection Selection, Jacques Savoy, U. Neuchâtel, Switzerland ► SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with Mixed 2-step RSV Merging Algorithm, Fernando Martínez Santiago, U.Jaen, Spain
16.00-16.30		BREAK
16.30-18.00		► TLR at CLEF-2004: Capturing the Translation of Compounds and Other Experiments, Isabelle Moulinier, Thomson Legal and Regulatory, USA ► Application of Variable Length N-gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval, Daniel Gayo Avello, U. Oviedo, Spain ► Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Deviation from Randomness: X-IOTA IR System used for CLIPS Mono & Bilingual Experiments for CLEF 2004, Jean-Pierre Chevallet and Gilles Serasset, IPAL-CNRS, France ► Analysis of Experiments on Hybridization of Different Approaches in Mono and Cross-Language Information Retrieval, José L. Martínez, MIRACLE team Madrid, Spain ► Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources, Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, U.Padua, Italy
19.00-21.00		Steering Committee Meeting
Thursday, 16 September 2004
9.00-9.30		Invited Talk: ► Issues when Building CLIR Applications, Gregor Thurmair, linguatec, Munich, Germany
9.30-11.05		QA@CLEF Plenary Session Chair: Bernardo Magnini, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy ► QA Track Overview, Alessandro Vallin, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy ► A Recall Oriented Approach to Question Answering, Maarten de Rijke, U.Amsterdam, The Netherlands ► Question Answering using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching, Sven Hartrumpf, U.Hagen, Germany ► Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004, Anselmo Peñas, LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain ► Discussion
11.05-11.30		BREAK
11.30-13.00		iCLEF Plenary Session Chairs: Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA ► iCLEF Track Overview, Julio Gonzalo, LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain ► Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic Patterns, Fernando LLopis, U. Alicante, Spain ► Bookmarking, Thesaurus, and Cooperation in Bilingual Question Answering (and screenshot), Jussi Karlgren, SICS,Stockholm, Sweden ► Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages versus Searching Documents, Fernando López Ostenero, LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain ► iCLEF 2004 at Maryland: Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering, Douglas W. Oard, U. Maryland, USA ► Discussion
13.00-14.30		LUNCH
14.30-16.00		ImageCLEF plenary Session Chair: Paul Clough, U. Sheffield, UK and Henning Müller, U. Hospitals Geneva, Switzerland ► ImageCLEF Track Overview, Paul Clough, U. Sheffield, UK ► Visual Features for Content-based Medical Image Retrieval, Peter Howarth, Imperial College London, UK ► From Text to Image: Generating Visual Queries for Image Retrieval, Wen-Cheng Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan ► DCU Experiments with the St Andrew's Collection: Machine Translation, Text-Image Matching Combination and Machine Translation Metrics, Gareth Jones and Andy Way, Dublin City University, Ireland ► Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, U.Montreal, Canada ► Comparison and Combination of Textaul and Visual Features for Interactive Image Retrieval, Pei-Cheng Cheng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan ► New Ideas for 2005, Henning Müller, U. Hospitals Geneva, Switzerland
16.00-16.30		BREAK
16.30-17.00		GIRT Plenary Session Chair: Michael Kluck, IZ-Bonn, Germany ► Overview, Michael Kluck, IZ-Bonn, Germany ► University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task, Johannes Leveling, University of Hagen, Germany
17.00-17.30		Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Plenary Session Chair: Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland ► The 2004 CL-SDR Track, Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland ► Ideas for 2005, Gareth Jones, DCU, Ireland and Douglas W.Oard, U.Maryland, USA
17.30-19.30		Poster Session and Reception
Friday, 17 September 2004
9.00-10.30		2 Breakout Sessions: QA@CLEF and ImageCLEF
10.30-11.00		BREAK
11.00-12.00		2 Breakout Sessions: iCLEF and Adhoc Mono/Bi/Multilingual
12.00-13.00		Plenary Discussion on Ideas for New Tracks Chair: Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ► Proposals regarding Web Track, Geographic IR, Multimedia Task
13.00-14.30		LUNCH
14.30-15.00		Preliminary Agenda for CLEF 2005 Chair: Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
15.00-15.30		Invited talk: Lessons from NTCIR-4: Focusing on Evaluation of CLIR on East Asian Languages, Patent and QA, Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
15.30-17.00		Panel Discussion: The Future of CLEF Moderator: Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA Panelists: Martin Braschler, Zurich, Switzerland, CLEF2000 – 2004 Technical Coordinator Marcello Federico, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy Julio Gonzalo, LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA