CLEF 2008

CLEF 2008 - Workshop

The CLEF 2008 Workshop was held on 17-19 September 2008 in Aarhus, Denmark, in conjunction with the 12th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008). The results of CLEF 2008 were presented and discussed. You can see the presentations here below:  

Wednesday, 17 September

12.30 - 14.00

Registration

14.00 - 18.40

 

Plenary Session

14.00 - 14.30

Welcome Carol Peters,  ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

14.30 - 15.20

Ad Hoc Track Overview

 

15.20 - 15.40

Domain-Specific Track Overview

15.40 - 16.00

VideoCLEF Track Overview

16.00 - 16.30

Break

16.30 - 17.20

QA@CLEF Overview

17.20 - 18.10

ImageCLEF Overview (.pdf Presentation)

  • ImageCLEF Photo - Thomas Arni, U. Sheffield, UK .

  • ImageCLEF Medical Retrieval - Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Oregon Health and Science U., USA

  • ImageCLEF WikiMM - Theodora Tsikrika, CWI, The Netherlands

  • ImageCLEF VCDT - Thomas Deselaers, RWTH Aachen U., Germany

  • ImageCLEF MedAAT - Thomas Deselaers , RWTH Aachen U., Germany

 

18.10 - 18.40

iCLEF Overview

 

Thursday, 18 September

9.00 - 11.00

 

Plenary Session

9.00 - 9.40

GeoCLEF Overview

9.40 - 10.10 

 

WebCLEF Overview

10.10 - 10.40

INFILE Overview

10.40 - 11.00

CLEF at MorphoChallenge - Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis - Mikko Kurimo, Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Helsinki U.Technology , Finland

 

11.00  - 11.30

Break

11.30  - 13.00

Parallel sessions: QA@CLEF & Ad Hoc  

Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)  - Chair: Pamela Forner (.zip version presentations)

  • Information Synthesis for Answer Validation - Günter Neumann, DFKI, Germany
  • The LIMSI participation in the QAST track - Olivier Galibert, LIMSI, France  
  • Cross Lingual Question Answering using QRISTAL for CLEF 2008 - Dominique Laurent , Synapse Développement, France
  • IdSay: Question Answering for Portuguese - Gracinda Carvalho , U. Aberta , Portugal
  • Esfinge at CLEF 2008: Experimenting with Answer Retrieval Patterns. Can they help? - Luís Costa, Linguateca, SINTEF ICT, Norway

Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)  - Chair: Eneko Agirre (.zip version presentations)

  • Alternative Methods for Tokenization in Ad Hoc Search - Paul McNamee , Johns Hopkins U., USA
  • Mono- and Cross-Language Retrieval Experiments on Persian Collections at U.Tehran - Abolfazl AleAhmad, Database Research Group, U. Tehran , Iran
  • XRCE's Participation in the TEL@CLEF Task - Stephane Clinchant, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
  • Exploiting Semantics with Structured Queries - Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona , Spain .

 

13.00 - 14.30

Lunch

14.30  - 16.00

Parallel sessions: ImageCLEF & GeoCLEF

 

Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)  - Chair: Henning Müller (.zip version presentations)

  • Image Fisher Vector-based Visual Concepts Detection and Image Retrieval - Stephane Clinchant, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
  • DCU at ImageCLEFPhoto 2008  -  Gareth Jones, Dublin City U. , Ireland
  • Conceptual Image Retrieval over the Wikipedia Corpus - Adrian Popescu, CEA-LIST , France
  • CLEF2008 Image Annotation Task: an SVM Confidence-Based Approach - Tatiana Tommasi, IDIAP, Switzerland
  • SINAI at ImageCLEFmed - Manuel Carlos Díaz Galiano, SINAI, U. Jaen , Spain

 

Cross-language Geographical Information Retrieval (GeoCLEF) - Chair Thomas Mandl & Diana Santos

Search Task

 

GikiP Task

16.00  - 16.30

Break

16.30  - 18.00

Plenary Session

16.30 - 17.00

What's happening at NTCIR-7 - Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

17.00 - 17.20

Presentation of Patent Task Proposal - John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna, Austria

17.30  - 18.00

 

Poster Boasting

18.00  - 19.30

Poster Session

 

 

Friday, 19 September

9.00 - 9.45

Parallel sessions: WebCLEF & VideoCLEF

 

Multilingual Retrieval of Web Documents (WebCLEF)  - Chair: Maarten de Rijke

Cross-language Video Retrieval (VideoCLEF)  - Chair: Gareth Jones

- University of Amsterdam at VideoCLEF Vid2RSS 2008 Pilot Task

- DCU at VideoClef 2008 Vid2RSS Pilot Task

- VideoCLEF Classification of Dual Language Audio-Visual Content

 

9.45 - 10.30

Parallel sessions: iCLEF & Domain-Specific

Interactive Cross-language Retrieval  - Chair:  Julio Gonzalo

Cross-language Scientific Data Retrieval  (Domain-Specific)  - Chair: Vivien Petras

 

10.30 - 11.00

Break

11.00 - 13.00

Breakout discussion sessions: continuing or new tracks.

13.00 - 14.30

Lunch

14.30 - 17.00

Final Session: Chair: Carol Peters

  • Impressions of CLEF 2008 - Donna Harman , NIST , USA
  • Evaluating the Search Functionality of Enterprise Websites - Martin Braschler , Zurich U. Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  • CLEF 2008 Proceedings and Schedule for CLEF 2009 - Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa , Italy
  • DIRECT: Towards an Evaluation Infrastructure for IR Evaluation - Nicola Ferro , U. Padua , Italy
  • Reports from Breakout Sessions and Proposals for CLEF 2009

 

 

 

The QUAERO/ImageCLEF Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval Evaluation workshop was held in Aarhus, Denmark on September 16.

The MorphoChallenge 2008 meeting was held Wednesday, 17 September 09.00 - 13:00