Working Notes for the CLEF 2004 Workshop, 15-17 September, Bath, UK
CONTENTS
Carol PetersCross-Language and MoreSelection 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 2004Gilles Sérasset and Jean-Pierre Chevallet
Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT for CLEF 2004 Paul McNamee and James Mayfield
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
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 TasksMiguel 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
Gareth J. F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike Lam-Adesina and Joachim Wagner Monolingual ExperimentsFinnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2004 Stephen Tomlinson
Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval Jacques Savoy
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 GIRTUniversity of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task Johannes Leveling and Sven Hartrumpf
Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem and Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
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
Carlos G. Figuerola, Angel F. Zazo, José L. Alonso Berrocal and Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana
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
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
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
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 E. Saquete, J. L. Vicedo, P. Martínez-Barco and R. MuñozCross-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
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
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
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 RetrievalMiguel E. Ruiz and Munirathnam Srikanth
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 EvaluationIssues When Building CLIR Applications: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 WorkshopGregor Thurmair NTCIR-4: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 WorkshopNoriko 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-HackerVolume II Appendices - Results for CLEF 2004 CampaignContentsAppendix A: Results of the Monolingual. Bilingual, Multilingual and Domain-Specific Tracks: Introduction and Run StatisticsAppendix B: Results of the Multiple Language Question Answering TrackAppendix C: Results of the Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track
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