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

• The TEL and Persian Tasks - Nicola Ferro, U. Padua, Italy

• Robust-WSD Exercise - Eneko Agirre, U. Basque Country, Spain

15.20 - 15.40

Domain-Specific Track Overview

• Cross-language Scientific Data Retrieval at CLEF 2008 - Vivien Petras, GESIS - Social Science Information Centre, Germany  

15.40 - 16.00

VideoCLEF Track Overview

• Overview of VideoCLEF 2008 - Automatic Generation of Topic-based Feeds for Dual Language Audio-Visual Content - Gareth Jones, DCU, Ireland & Martha Larson U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

16.00 - 16.30

Break

16.30 - 17.20

QA@CLEF Overview

• Multilingual Question Answering Track  -  Anselmo Peñas, UNED, Spain

• Overview of Answer Validation Exercise 2008 -  Anselmo Peñas, UNED, Spain

• Overview of QAST 2008 -  Nicolas Moreau, ELDA, Paris , France  

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

• Without Users, no Retrieval! Overview and Future of iCLEF - Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden  

Thursday, 18 September

9.00 - 11.00

Plenary Session

9.00 - 9.40

GeoCLEF Overview

• Main Track Overview - Thomas Mandl , U. Hildesheim & Diana Santos, Linguateca, SINTEF, Norway
• Results and Analysis - Giorgio Di Nunzio, U. Padua, Italy
• GikiP Task Overview - Diana Santos, Linguateca, SINTEF, Norway

9.40 - 10.10 

WebCLEF Overview

• WebCLEF 2008 - Goodbye! - Maarten de Rijke , ISLA, U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10.10 - 10.40

INFILE Overview

• Overview of the Multilingual INformation FILtering Evaluation (INFILE) Campaign - Romaric Besançon, CEA LIST, France  

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

• Measuring the contribution of Word Sense Disambiguation for QA - Eneko Agirre, U. Basque Country, Spain

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

• Ontology-based Query Construction for GeoCLEF -  Günter Neumann, DFKI, Germany
• INAOE at GeoCLEF 2008: A Ranking Approach based on Sample Documents - Manuel Montes, Instituto Nacional, Puebla, Mexico
• SINAI-GIR. A Multilingual Geographic IR System - J.M. Perea-Ortega, U. Jaen
• Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2008: Text and Fusion Approaches for GIR - Ray R. Larson , UC Berkeley , USA
• Potential Query Log Sets - Alexander Yeh, Mitre, USA

GikiP Task

• A Fully Automatic Method to Answer Geographic Questions: GIRSA-WP at GikiP - Johannes Leveling, U. Hagen , Germany
• Digging for Information: WikipediaQAList@wlv at GikiP - Iustin Dornescu, U. Wolverhampton , UK
• Towards Semantic-flavored Queries for GIR Systems: RENOIR at the GikiP pilot task - Nuno Cardoso , U. Lisbon, Portugal

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

• On the Evaluation of Snippet Selection for Information Retrieval - Arnold Overwijk U. Twente, The Netherlands
• Web People Search task at SemEval - Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
• Political Web Search - Maarten de Rijke , U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

• VideoCLEF 2008: ASR Classification based on Wikipedia Categories - Jens Kursten, Chemnitz U.Technology , Germany
• DCU and U.Amsterdam at VideoCLEF: Contributions to Research within the MultiMatch Project on Access to Cultural Heritage - Martha Larson , U.Amsterdam, The Netherlands

- 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

• Lessons from the 2008 iCLEF participants:  Analysis of a Large Log of Multilingual Image Searches in Flickr - Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
• User Confidence and Satisfaction inferred from iCLEF Logs - Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden
• "Interactive" Undergraduate Students  -  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, U. Padua , Italy

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

• Parsimonious Relevance and Concept Models - Edgar Meij, ISLA, U. Amsterdam , The Netherlands
• Using Wikipedia and Wiktionary in Domain-Specific Information Retrieval - Christof Müller ,  Technical U. Darmstadt , Germany

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