Working Notes for the CLEF 2004 Workshop, 15-17 September, Bath, UK

 

CONTENTS

 

 

Introduction

         Carol Peters

Cross-Language and More

Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval

         Jacques Savoy and Pierre-Yves Berger

 

Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Derivation from Randomness: X-IOTA IR System used for CLIPS Mono & Bilingual Experiments for CLEF 2004

         Gilles Sérasset and Jean-Pierre Chevallet

 

Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT for CLEF 2004

         Paul McNamee and James Mayfield

 

The University of Padua at CLEF 2004: Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources

         Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro and Nicola Orio

 

Application of Variable Length N-gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval

         Daniel Gayo-Avello, Darío Álvarez-Gutiérrez and José Gayo-Avello

 

LIC2M Experiments at CLEF 2004

         Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Christian Fluhr

 

IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages

         Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol and Elisa Noguera

 

Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF

       David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George Foster, and Claude St-Jacques

 

Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004

         Isabelle Moulinier and Ken Williams

 

The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2004

         Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Willem Robert van Hage, Jaap Kamps, Gustavo Lacerda de Melo and Maarten de Rijke

 

Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Trial at CLEF 2004

         Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando and Kuang-Hua Chen

 

Dictionary-based Amharic - English Information Retrieval

         Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster and Jussi Karlgren

 

Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation

         Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Timo Järvinen, Rickard Cöster

 

SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm

         Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, Manuel C. Díaz-Galiano and L. Alfonso Ureña

 

Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of  Hildesheim

         René Hackl, Thomas Mandl and  Christa Womser-Hacker

 

University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval

         Gina-Anne Levow and Irina Matveeva

 

UB at CLEF2004: Part 1 - Monolingual and Multilingual Tasks
         Miguel E. Ruiz and Munirathnam Srikanth

 

MIRACLE’s Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information Retrieval

José M. Goñi-Menoyo, José C. González, José L. Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena-Román, Ana M. García-Serrano, Paloma Martínez-Fernández, César de Pablo-Sánchez and Javier Alonso-Sánchez

 

Searching a Russian Document Collection using English, Chinese and Japanese Queries

         Fredric C. Gey

 

Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval

         Gareth J. F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike Lam-Adesina and Joachim Wagner

Monolingual  Experiments

Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM  at CLEF 2004

         Stephen Tomlinson

 

Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval

         Jacques Savoy

 

The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004

         Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva and Miguel Costa

 

The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier

         Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis

Mainly GIRT

University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task

         Johannes Leveling and  Sven Hartrumpf


 
IRIT at CLEF 2004:  The English GIRT Task

          Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem and Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

 

Ricoh at CLEF 2004

         Yuichi Kojima

 

GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval

         Vivien Petras

Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF)

iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering

Julio Gonzalo and Douglas W. Oard

 

Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages versus Searching Documents

         Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Víctor Peinado and Felisa Verdejo

 

REINA at iCLEF 2004

         Carlos G. Figuerola, Angel F. Zazo, José L. Alonso Berrocal and Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana

 

Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic Patterns

         Borja Navarro, Loren Moreno, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo and Miguel Ángel Varó

 

Bookmarking, Thesaurus, and Cooperation in Bilingual Question Answering

         Jussi Karlgren, Preben Hansen and Magnus Sahlgren

 

 

iCLEF 2004 at Maryland: Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering

         Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo and Douglas W. Oard

Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)

Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track

Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ayache, Gregor Erbach, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke, Paulo Rocha, Kiril Simov and Richard Sutcliffe

 

Question Answering System for the French Language

         Laura Perrot

 

Cross-Language French-English Question Answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2004

         Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay, Michael Mulcahy and Aoife O'Gorman

 

Experiments on Robust NL Question Interpretation and Multi-layered Document Annotation for a Cross-Language  Question/Answering-System

         Günter Neumann and Bogdan Sacaleanu

 

The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF 2004

         V. Jijkoun, G. Mishne, M. de Rijke, S. Schlobach, D. Ahn, and K. Müller

 

The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004

         Hristo Tanev, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini and  Milen Kouylekov

 

Cross-lingual Question Answering with QED

         Kisuh Ahn, Beatrix Alex, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner, and Matthew B. Smillie

 

Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources

         Petya Osenova, Alexander Simov, Kiril Simov, Hristo Tanev and Milen Kouylekov

 

How to Answer in English to Questions Asked in French: by Exploiting Results from Several Sources of Information

         Guillaume  Bourdil, Faza Elkateb, Brigitte Grau, Gabriel Illouz, Laura Monceaux, Isabelle Robba and Anne Vilnat

 

Cross-Language Question Answering at the University of Helsinki

         Lili Aunimo, Reeta Kuuskoski and Juha Makkonen

 

miraQA: Initial Experiments in Question Answering

C. de Pablo, J.L. Martínez-Fernández, P. Martínez, J. Villena, A.M. García-Serrano, J.M. Goñi and J.C. González

 

The Use of Lexical Context in Question Answering for Spanish

M. Pérez-Coutiño, T. Solorio, M. Montes-y-Gómez, A. López-López and L. Villaseñor-Pineda

 

Question Answering using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching

Sven Hartrumpf

 

First Evaluation of Esfinge - a Question Answering System for Portuguese

         Luís Costa

 

The University of Évora approach to QA@CLEF-2004

         Paulo Quaresma, Luís Quintano, Irene Rodrigues,  José Saias and Pedro Salgueiro

 

COLE at CLEF 2004: Rapid Prototyping of a QA system for Spanish

         Enrique Méndez Díaz, Jesús Vilares Ferro and David Cabrero Souto

 

Does English help Question Answering in Spanish?

         José L. Vicedo, Maximiliano Saiz and Rubén Izquierdo

 

TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF-2004

Alicia Ageno, Daniel Ferrés, Edgar González, Samir Kanaan, Horacio Rodríguez, Mihai Surdeanu, and Jordi Turmo.

 

QA at ILC-UniPI: Description of the Prototype

 Francesca Bertagna, Luminita Chiran and Maria Simi

 

Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004

         Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas and Felisa Verdejo

 

Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QA

         E. Saquete, J. L. Vicedo, P. Martínez-Barco and R. Muñoz

Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)

The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (ImageCLEF) 2004

Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson and Henning Müller

 

Caption vs. Query Translation for Cross-Language Image Retrieval

Paul Clough

 

Pattern-based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004

         Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, José L. Vicedo and Rubén Izquierdo

 

Report on the ImageCLEF Experiment: How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection using GIFT

         Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler and Patrick Ruch

 

UNED@ImageCLEF 2004: Using Image Captions Structure and Noun Phrase Based Query Expansion for Cross-Language Image Caption Retrieval

         Víctor Peinado, Javier Artiles, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo.

 

Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew's Collection

         Gareth J. F. Jones, Declan Groves, Anna Khasin, Adenike Lam-Adesina, Bart Mellebeek and Andy Way

 

From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image Retrieval

         Wen-Cheng Lin, Yih-Chen Chang and Hsin-Hsi Chen

 

Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval

         Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, Jian-Yun Nie

 

FIRE - Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation

         Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers and Hermann Ney

 

MIRACLE at ImageCLEF 2004

J.L. Martínez-Fernández, Ana García Serrano, Julio Villena, Víctor David Méndez Sáenz, Santiago González Tortosa, Michelangelo Castagnone and Javier Alonso

 

LIC2M Experiments at ImageCLEF 2004

         Romaric Besançon, Patrick Hède, Pierre-Alain Moellic and Christian Fluhr

 

Report on the CLEF Experiment: Combining Image and Multilingual Search for Medical Image Retrieval

         Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler and Patrick Ruch

 

FINT: Find Images aNd Text

         Menno van Zaanen and Guido de Croon

 

Visual Features for Content-based Medical Image Retrieval

         Peter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch and Stefan Rüger

 

KIDS’s Evaluation in the Medical Image Retrieval Task at ImageCLEF 2004

         Pei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, and Wei-Pang Yang

                             

A Probabilistic Approach to the Medical Retrieval Task

         Koen Lubbers, Arjen de Vries, Theo Huibers and Paul van der Vet

 

UB at CLEF2004: Part 2 – Cross Language Medical Image Retrieval
         Miguel E. Ruiz and Munirathnam Srikanth

 

Content-based Queries on the Casimage Database with the IRMA framework: A Field Report

         Christian Thies, Mark Oliver Güld, Benedikt Fischer and Thomas M. Lehmann

 

NCTU-ISU's Evaluation for the User-Centered Search Task at ImageCLEF 2004

         Pei-Cheng Cheng, Jen-Yuan Yeh, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke and Wei-Pang Yang

Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SDR)

CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track

         Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Gina-Anne Levow and Gareth J.F. Jones

Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

Issues When Building CLIR Applications: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 Workshop

         Gregor Thurmair

 

NTCIR-4: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 Workshop

         Noriko Kando

 

CHAVE: Topics and Questions on the Portuguese Participation in CLEF

         Diana Santos and Paulo Rocha

 

How do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?

         Thomas Mandl and Christa Womser-Hacker

Volume II Appendices - Results for CLEF 2004 Campaign

Contents

Appendix A: Results of the Monolingual. Bilingual, Multilingual and Domain-Specific Tracks: Introduction and Run Statistics

Appendix B: Results of the Multiple Language Question Answering Track

 Appendix C: Results of the  Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track