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Working Notes for the CLEF 2005 Workshop, 21-23 September, Vienna, Austria
CONTENTS Introduction Carol PetersMultilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc Track Overview Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Gareth J.F. Jones, Carol Peters Portuguese at CLEF 2005: Reflections and Challenges Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso Cross-Language and MoreAd-hoc Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim. René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker MIRACLE’s 2005 Approach to Cross-lingual Information Retrieval José C. González, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, Julio Villena-Román The XLDB Group’s Participation in the CLEF 2005 Ad Hoc Task Nuno Cardoso, Leonardo Andrade, Alberto Simões, Mário J. Silva Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2005 Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams Loïc Maisonnasse, Gilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet Bilingual and Multilingual Experiments with the IR-n system Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol, Miguel A. García-Cumbreras, Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Arturo Montejo-Raez Dictionary-based Amharic-French Information Retrieval Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren Kazuaki Kishida and Noriko Kando Ontology-Based Multilingual Information Retrieval Jacques Guyot, Saïïd Radhouani, Gilles Falquet SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-years-on and Multi-8 Merging-only Tasks Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Miguel A. García-Cumbreras CLEF 2005: Multilingual Retrieval by Combining Multiple Multilingual Ranked Lists Luo Si, Jamie Callan Report on CLEF-2005 Evaluation Campaign: Monolingual, Bilingual and GIRT Information Retrieval Jacques Savoy and Pierre-Yves Berger Sociopolitical Thesaurus in Concept-based Information Retrieval M. Ageev, B. Dobrov, N. Loukachevitch University of Indonesia’s Participation in Ad Hoc at CLEF 2005 Mirna Adriani, Ihsan Wahyu Exploring New Languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005 Paul McNamee Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Multilingual Merging Experiments Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F.Jones Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis Monolingual ExperimentsHungarian Monolingual Retrieval at CLEF 2005 Anna Tordai, Maarten de Rijke ENSM-SE at CLEF 2005: Uses of Fuzzy Proximity Matching Function Annabelle Mercier, Amelie Imafouo, Michel Beigbeder European Ad Hoc Retrieval Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2005 Stephen Tomlinson Combining Passages in the Monolingual Task with the IR-n System Fernando Llopis, Elisa Noguera Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Rickard Cöster MIRACLE’s 2005 Approach to Monolingual Information Retrieval José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José C. González, Julio Villena-Román Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific)Michael Kluck, Maximilian Stempfhuber Fusion of Probabilistic Algorithms for the CLEF Domain Specific Task Ray R. Larson Domain-Specific Russian Retrieval: A Baseline Approach Fredric C. Gey Johannes Leveling Vivien Petras Evaluating a Conceptual Indexing Method by Utilizing WordNet Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments with a Social Science Document Corpus. René Hackl and Thomas Mandl Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF)Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive Track Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough and Alessandro Vallin Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Carlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Viviana Fernández Marcial Borja Navarro, Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo, Elisa Noguera, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential Answers Víctor Peinado, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo Boolean Operators in Interactive Search Julio Villena-Román, Raquel M. Crespo-García, José Carlos González-Cristóbal Concept Hierarchy across Languages in Text-Based Image Retrieval: A User Evaluation Daniela Petrelli, Paul Clough Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering Track Alessandro Vallin, Danilo Giampiccolo, Lili Aunimo, Christelle Ayache, Petya Osenova, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Diana Santos, Richard Sutcliffe A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-lingual Question Answering for English and German Robert Strötgen, Thomas Mandl, René Schneider The Oedipe System at CLEF-QA 2005 Romaric Besançon, Mehdi Embarek, Olivier Ferret Building an XML Framework for Question Answering David Tomás, José L. Vicedo, Maximiliano Saiz, Rubén Izquierdo A Logic Programming-based Approach to the QA@CLEF05 Track Paulo Quaresma, Irene Rodrigues Sven Hartrumpf Question Answering for Dutch using Dependency Relations Gosse Bouma, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-terms Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Madeleine Sialeu, Anne Vilnat Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Kiril Simov The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF-2005 Daniel Ferrés, Samir Kanaan, Edgar González, Alicia Ageno, Horacio Rodríguez, Jordi Turmo Priberam’s Question Answering System for Portuguese Carlos Amaral, Helena Figueira, André Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto INAOE-UPV Joint Participation in CLEF 2005: Experiments in Monolingual Question Answering M. Montes-y-Gómez, L. Villaseñor-Pineda, M. Pérez-Coutiño, J. M. Gómez-Soriano, E. Sanchis- Arnal, P. Rosso DFKI’s LT-lab at the CLEF 2005 Multiple Language Question Answering Track Günter Neuman, Bogdan Sacaleanu Monolingual and Cross-language QA using a QA-oriented Passage Retrieval System José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Empar Bisbal Asensi, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF 2005 David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, Erik Tjong, Kim Sang AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2005 S. Roger, S. Ferrández, A. Ferrández, J. Peral, F. Llopis, A. Aguilar, D. Tomás 20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) Solving the Riddles at CLEF 2005 Luís Costa Question Answering using Semantic Annotation Lili Aunimo, Reeta Kuuskoski MIRACLE’s 2005 Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering César de Pablo-Sánchez, Ana González-Ledesma, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, José Maria Guirao, Paloma Martinez, Antonio Moreno Cross Lingual Question Answering using QRISTAL for CLEF 2005 Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, Sophie Nègre Experiments for Tuning the Values of Lexical Features in Question Answering for Spanish Manuel Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda Cross-Language French-English Question Answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2005 Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Michael Mulcahy, Igal Gabbay, Aoife O’Gorman, Kieran White, Darina Slattery University of Indonesia’s Participation in Question Answering at CLEF 2005 Mirna Adriani and R. Rinawati BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005 Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track Paul Clough, Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers , Michael Grubinger, Thomas Lehmann, Jeffery Jensen, William Hersh Towards a Topic Complexity Measure for Cross Language Image Retrieval Michael Grubinger, Clement Leung, Paul Clough Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew's Collection Gareth J. F. Jones, Kieran McDonald University of Alicante in ImageCLEF2005 Rubén Izquierdo-Beviá, David Tomás, Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda and José Luis Vicedo. Exploiting Semantic Features for Image Retrieval at CLEF 2005 J.L. Martínez-Fernández, J. Villena, Ana García-Serrano , S. González-Tortosa , F. Carbone, M.Castagnone UNED at ImageCLEF 2005: Automatically Structured Queries with Named Entities over Metadata Víctor Peinado, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo Recovering Translation Errors in Cross-Language Image Retrieval using Word Association Models Masashi Inoue Combining Text and Image Queries at ImageCLEF2005 Yih-Chen Chang, Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen CUHK Experiments with ImageCLEF 2005 Steven C.H. Hoi, Jianke Zhu, Michael R. Lyu M.T. Martiín-Valdivia, M.A. García-Cumbreras, M.C. Díaz-Galiano, L.A. Ureña-López, A. Montejo-Raez Merging Results from Different Media: Lic2m Experiments at ImageCLEF 2005 Romaric Besançon, Christophe Millet Combining Multilevel Visual Features for Medical Image Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2005 Wei Xiong, Bo Qiu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu, S.H. Ong, Kelvin Foong A Structured Learning Approach for Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval Joo-Hwee Lim, Jean-Pierre Chevallet FIRE in ImageCLEF 2005: Combining Content-based Image Retrieval with Textual Information Retrieval Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Weyand, Daniel Keysers, Wolfgang Macherey, Hermann Ney Categorizing and Annotating Medical Images by Retrieving Terms Relevant to Visual Features Desislava Petkova, Lisa Ballesteros Jeffery R. Jensen, William R. Hersh MIRACLE’s Combination of Visual and Textual Queries for Medical Image Retrieval Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González-Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, Juan José Fernández Supervised Machine Learning based Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya Combining Global features for Content-based Retrieval of Medical Images Mark O Güld, Christian Thies, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas M. Lehmann NCTU_DBLAB@ImageCLEFmed 2005: Medical Image Retrieval Task Pei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang Using medGIFT and easyIR for the ImageCLEF 2005 Evaluation Tasks Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Johan Marty, Christian Lovis, Patrick Ruch The University of Indonesia’s Participation in IMAGE-CLEF 2005 Mirna Adriani, A. Framadhan MIRACLE’s Naive Approach to Medical Images Annotation Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González-Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Luís Martínez-Fernandez Report on the Annotation Task in ImageCLEFmed 2005 Bo Qiu, Wei Xiong, Qi Tian, Chang Sheng Xu Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Saïd Radhouani UB at CLEF 2005: Medical Image Retrieval Task Miguel E. Ruiz, Silvia Southwick NCTU_DBLAB@ImageCLEF 2005: Automatic Annotation Task Pei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR)Overview of the CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track Ryen W. White, Douglas W. Oard, Gareth J. F. Jones, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang University of Ottawa’s Contribution to CLEF 2005, the CL-SR Track Diana Inkpen, Muath Alzghool, Aminul Islam Waterloo Experiments for the CLEF05 SDR Track Charles L. A. Clarke The University of Alicante at CL-SR track Rafael M. Terol, Manuel Palomar, Patricio Martinez-Barco, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Elisa Noguera Pitt at CLEF05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document Retrieval Daqing He, Jaewook Ahn UNED at CL-SR CLEF 2005: Mixing Different Strategies to Retrieve Automatic Speech Transcriptions Fernando López-Ostenero, Víctor Peinado, Valentín Sama Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F.Jones CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion using Side Collections and Thesauri Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke Web Retrieval Experiments with the EuroGOV Corpus at the University of Hildesheim. Niels Jensen, René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Robert Strötgen European Web Retrieval Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2005 Stephen Tomlinson Melange: Components for Cross-Lingual Retrieval Max Pfingsthorn, Koen van de Sande, Vladimir Nedovic The University of Amsterdam at WebCLEF 2005 Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Borkur Sigurbjornsson Web Track for CLEF2005 at Alicante University Trinitario Martínez, Elisa Noguera, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis MIRACLE’s Approach to Multilingual Web Retrieval Ángel Martínez-González, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Julio Villena-Román, Luis Jiménez-Cuadrado, Paloma Martínez, José Carlos González-Cristóbal TPIRS: A System for Document Indexing Reduction on WebCLEF David Pinto, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis REINA at the WebCLEF Task: Combining Evidences and Link Analysis Carlos G. Figuerola, José L. Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez Javier Artiles, Víctor Peinado, Anselmo Penas, Felisa Verdejo University of Indonesia’s Participation in WEB-CLEF 2005 Mirna Ariani, Rama Pandugita Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)GeoCLEF: the CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Paul Clough MIRACLE’s 2005 Approach to Geographical Information Retrieval Sara Lana-Serrano, José M. Goñi-Menoyo, José C. González-Cristóbal The University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005 O. Ferrández, Z. Kozareva, A. Toral, E. Noguera, A. Montoyo, R. Muñoz, Fernando Llopis András Kornai A WordNet-based Query Expansion Method for Geographical Information Retrieval Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal Daniel Ferrés, Alicia Ageno, Horacio Rodríguez Cheshire II at GeoCLEF: Fusion and Query Expansion for GIR Ray R. Larson CSUSM Experiments in GeoCLEF2005: Monolingual and Bilingual Tasks Rocio Guillén Vivien Petras, Fredric Gey University of Hagen at GeoCLEF 2005: Using Semantic Networks for Interpreting Geographical Queries Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf, Dirk Veiel Preliminary Experiments with Geo-Filtering Predicates for Geographic IR Jochen L. Leidner Baden Hughes The XLDB Group at GeoCLEF 2005 Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Leonardo Andrade and Mário J. Silva Appendices - Results for CLEF 20055 CampaignAppendix A : Results of the Core Tracks and Domain-Specific TracksAppendix B : Results of the GeoCLEF TracksAppendix C : Cross Language Speech Retrieval ResultsAppendix D : Participating Institutions |