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Working Notes for the CLEF 2008 Workshop 17-19 September, Aarhus, Denmark ISSN: 1818-8044 ISBN: 2-912335-43-4
CONTENTS
What happened in CLEF 2008: Introduction to the Working Notes Carol Peters Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)
CLEF 2008: Ad Hoc Track Overview Eneko Agirre, Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters TEL@CLEF Logistic Regression for Metadata: Cheshire takes on Adhoc-TEL Ray R. Larson CACAO Project at the TEL@CLEF 2008 Task Technical University of Lisbon CLEF 2008 Submission: TEL@CLEF Monolingual Task WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-lingual
Information Retrieval using only Wikipedia Cross-language Information Retrieval with Explicit Semantic Analysis UFRGS@CLEF2008: Using Association Rules for Cross-Language
Information Retrieval CLEF 2008 Ad-Hoc Track: On-line Processing
Experiments with Xtrieval XRCE’s Participation to CLEF 2008
Ad-Hoc Track Persian@CLEF Using Part of Speech Tagging in Persian Information Retrieval Reza Karimpour, Amineh Ghorbani, Azadeh Pishdad, Mitra Mohtarami, Abolfazl AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri Farhad Oroumchian Fusion of Retrieval Models at CLEF 2008 Ad-Hoc Persian Track Zahra Aghazade, Nazanin Dehghani, Leili Farzinvash, Razieh Rahimi, Abolfazel AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian Cross Language Experiments at Persian@CLEF 2008 Abolfazl AleAhmad, Ehsan Kamalloo, Arash Zareh, Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian Investigation on Application of Local Cluster Analysis and Part of Speech Tagging on Persian Text Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri Robust-WSD SINAI at Robust WSD Task @ CLEF 2008: When WSD is a Good Idea for Information Retrieval tasks? Fernando Martínez-Santiago, José M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel A. García-Cumbreras UNIBA-SENSE at CLEF 2008: SEmantic N-levels Search Engine Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semeraro IXA at CLEF 2008 Robust-WSD Task: using Word Sense Disambiguation for (Cross Lingual) Information Retrieval UFRGS@CLEF2008: Indexing Multiword Expressions for Information
Retrieval IRn in the CLEF Robust WSD Task 2008 UCM-Y!R at CLEF 2008 Robust and WSD tasks (new version) UNIGE Experiments on Robust Word Sense Disambiguation Exploiting Cooccurrence on Corpus and Document Level for Fair Crosslanguage Retrieval Andreas Juffinger, Roman Kern, Michael Granitzer Ad Hoc Mixed: TEL, Persian & Robust German, French, English and Persian Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2008 JHU Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2008 UniNE at CLEF 2008: TEL, Persian and Robust IR Mono- and Cross-Language Scientific Data Retrieval (Domain-Specific) The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2008 UniNE at Domain-Specific IR - CLEF 2008:
Scientific Data Retrieval: Various Query Expansion Approaches Back to Basics - Again - for Domain Specific
Retrieval First Participation of University and Hospitals of Geneva to Domain-Specific Track in CLEF 2008 The University of Amsterdam at the CLEF 2008 Domain Specific Track: Parsimonious Relevance and Concept Models The Xtrieval Framework at CLEF 2008:
Domain-Specific Track Using Wikipedia and Wiktionary in Domain-Specific Information Retrieval Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval (iCLEF) Overview of iCLEF 2008: Search Log Analysis for Multilingual Image Retrieval Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Jussi Karlgren FlickLing: a Multilingual Search Interface for Flickr Víctor Peinado, Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Emma Barker, Fernando López-Ostenero "Interactive" Undergraduate Students: UNIPD at iCLEF 2008 Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio A Study of Users Image Seeking Behaviour in Flickling Evgenia Vassilakaki, Frances Johnson, R.J. Hartley, David Randall Mining the Behaviour of Users in a Multilingual Information Access Task Srinivasarao Vundavalli Diana Irina Tanase, Epaminondas Kapetanios UNED at iCLEF 2008: Analysis of a Large Log of Multilingual Image Searches in Flickr Víctor Peinado, Julio Gonzalo, Javier Artiles, Fernando López-Ostenero SICS at iCLEF 2008: User Confidence and Satisfaction inferred from iCLEF Logs Jussi Karlgren Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)Overview of the CLEF 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track Pamela Forner, Anselmo Peñas, Iñaki Alegria, Corina Forăscu, Nicolas Moreau, Petya Osenova, Prokopis Prokopidis, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard Sutcliffe, Erik Tjong Kim Sang Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2008 Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel, Nicolas Moreau, Djamel Mostefa
Mono and Bilingual QA Experiments with Query Expansion in the RAPOSA (FOX) Question Answering System AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2008 Question Answering with Joost at CLEF 2008 Priberam’s Question Answering system in QA@CLEF 2008 Cross Lingual Question Answering using QRISTAL
for CLEF 2008 IdSay: Question Answering for Portuguese Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008 Multi-lingual Question Answering using
OpenEphyra University of Wolverhampton at CLEF 2008 Iustin Dornescu, Georgiana Puşcaşu, Constantin Orăsan AliQAn, Spanish QA System at Multilingual
QA@CLEF-2008 Esfinge at CLEF 2008: Experimenting with Answer Retrieval Patterns. Can they help? Ihardetsi Question Answering System at
QA@CLEF 2008 QA@L2F, Second Steps at QA@CLEF UAIC Participation at QA@CLEF2008 RACAI’s QA System at the Romanian-Romanian Multiple Language
Question Answering (QA@CLEF2008) Main Task The LogAnswer Project at CLEF 2008: Towards
Logic-Based Question Answering The MIRACLE Team at the CLEF 2008
Multilingual Question Answering Track The Senso Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2008 University of Hagen at QA@CLEF 2008:
Efficient Question Answering with
Question Decomposition and Multiple Answer Streams DFKI at QA@CLEF 2008 Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) Answer Validation on English and Romanian Languages Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu The Answer Validation System ProdicosAV Christine Jacquin, Laura Monceaux, Emmanuel Desmontils Justification of Answers by Verification of Dependency Relations - The French AVE Task Véronique Moriceau, Xavier Tannier, Arnaud Grappy, Brigitte Grau A Lexical-Semantic Approach to AVE Óscar Ferrández, Rafael Muñoz, Manuel Palomar University of Hagen at CLEF 2008: Answer Validation Exercise Ingo Glöckner The Contribution of FaMAF at QA@CLEF 2008. Answer Validation Exercise Julio J. Castillo Information Synthesis for Answer Validation Rui Wang, Günter Neumann INAOE at QA@CLEF 2008: Evaluating Answer Validation in Spanish Question Answering Alberto Téllez-Valero, Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda Question Answering on Script Transcription (QAST) The LIMSI Participation to the QAst track Sophie Rosset, Olivier Galibert, Guillaume Bernard, Eric Bilinski, Gilles Adda Adapting IBQAS to work with Text Transciptions in QAst Task: IBQAst M. Pardiño, J.M. Gómez, H. Llorens, R. Muñoz-Terol, B. Navarro-Colorado, E. Saquete, P. Martínez-Barco, P. Moreda, M. Palomar Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008 Pere R. Comas, Jordi Turmo QA Extension for Xtrieval: Contribution to the QAst track Jens Kürsten, Holger Kundisch, Maximilian Eibl QA and Word Sense Disambiguation (QA-WSD) QA with a Disambiguated Document Collection D. Buscaldi, P. Rosso Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2008
Photographic Retrieval Task Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2008 Medical
Image Retrieval Task Medical Image Annotation in ImageCLEF 2008 The Visual Concept Detection Task in
ImageCLEF 2008 ImageCLEFphoto Kosuke Yamauchi, Takuya Nomura, Keiko Usui, Yusuke Kamoi, Miki Eto, Tomohiro Takagi Philippe Mulhem Building a Diversity Featured Search System by Fusing Existing Tools Jiayu Tang, Thomas Arni, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough Marin Ferecatu, Hichem Sahbi MIRACLE-FI at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: Experiences in merging Text-based and Content-based Retrievals R. Granados, X. Benavent, A. García-Serrano, J.M. Goñi MIRACLE-GSI at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: Experiments on Semantic and Statistical Topic Expansion Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José C. González-Cristóbal UPMC/LIP6 at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: on the Exploitation of Visual Concepts (VCDT) Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari Consortium AVEIR at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: on the Fusion of Runs Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Marin Ferecatu, Hervé Glotin, Philippe Mulhem, Massih-Reza Amini, Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Patrick Gallinari, Hichem Sahbi, Zhong-Qiu Zhao Feature Annotation for Visual Concept Detection in ImageCLEF 2008 Jingtian Jiang, Xiaoguang Rui, Nenghai Yu Targeting Diversity in Photographic Retrieval Task with Commonsense Knowledge Supheakmungkol Sarin, Wataru Kameyama Clustering for Photo Retrieval at Image CLEF 2008 Diana Inkpen, Marc Stogaitis, François DeGuire, Muath Alzghool M.A. García-Cumbreras, M.C. Díaz-Galiano, M.T. Martín-Valdivia, L.A. Ureña-López IPAL at CLEF 2008: Mixed-Modality based Image Search, Novelty based Re-ranking and Extended Matching Sheng Gao, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim TIA-INAOE Participation at ImageCLEF 2008 H. Jair Escalante, J. A. González, Carlos A. Hernández, Aurelio López, Manuel Montes, Eduardo Morales, Luis E. Sucar, Luis Villaseñor Effects of Visual Concept-based Post-retrieval Clustering in ImageCLEFphoto 2008 Masashi Inoue, Piyush Grover The Xtrieval Framework at CLEF 2008: ImageCLEF Photographic Retrieval Task Thomas Wilhelm, Jens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl Different Multimodal Approaches using IR-n in ImageCLEFphoto 2008 Sergio Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz Text-mess in the ImageCLEFphoto08 Task S. Navarro, M.A. García, F. Llopis, M.C. Díaz, R. Muñoz, M.T. Martín, L.A. Ureña, A. Montejo XRCE’s Participation to ImageCLEF 2008 J. Ah-Pine, C. Cifarelli, S. Clinchant, G. Csurka, J.M. Renders Osama El Demerdash, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler Increasing Relevance and Diversity in Photo Retrieval by Result Fusion Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen Neil O'Hare, Peter Wilkins, Cathal Gurrin, Eamonn Newman, Gareth J.F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton. SZTAKI @ ImageCLEF 2008: Visual Concept Detection Profil Entropic Visual Features for Visual Concept Detection in CLEF 2008 Campaign MMIS at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments combining Different Evidence Sources Affinity Propagation promoting Diversity in Visuo-entropic and Text Features for CLEF Photo Retrieval 2008 Campaign ImageCLEFmed CLEF2008 Image Annotation Task: an SVM Confidence-Based Approach Tatiana Tommasi, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo Multi-Relation Modeling on Multi Concept
Extraction
LIG participation at ImageClefMed MedGIFT at ImageCLEF 2008 MIRACLE at ImageCLEFmed 2008:
Evaluating Strategies for Automatic Topic Expansion MIRACLE at ImageCLEFannot 2008:
Classification of Image Features for
Medical Image Annotation Automatic System for Extraction of Content-Based
Characteristics from Digital Images SINAI at ImageCLEFmed 2008 TAU MIPLAB at ImageClef 2008
Text-only Cross-language Image Search at Medical ImageCLEF 2008 Multimodal Medical Image Retrieval: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2008 Methods for combining Content-based and Textual-based Approaches in Medical Image
Retrieval A Multimodal Approach to the Medical Retrieval
Task using IR-n Text-mess in the Medical Retrieval
ImageCLEF08 Task Baseline Results for the CLEF 2008
Medical Automatic Annotation Task ImageCLEFWiki UPMC/LIP6 at ImageCLEF's WikipediaMM: An Image-Annotation Model for an Image Search-Engine Theodora Tsikrika, Henning Rode, Arjen P. de Vries Some Experiments on the WikipediaMM 2008
task:
Evaluating the Impact of Image names in
Context-based Retrieval The Xtrieval Framework at CLEF 2008: ImageCLEF Wikipedia MM task
PKU at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments with Query Extension Techniques
for Text-Based and Content-Based Image Retrieval A Textual Approach Based on Passages Using
IR-n in WikipediaMM Task 2008 Increasing Cluster Recall of Cross-modal Image Retrieval Simon Rácz, Bálint Daróczy, Dávid Siklósi, Attila Pereszlényi, Mátyás Brendel, András Benczúr Conceptual Image Retrieval over the Wikipedia Corpus Adrian Popescu, Hervé Le Borgne, Pierre-Alain Moëllic Concept Content Based Wikipedia WEB Image Retrieval using CLEF VCDT 2008 Zhongqiu Zhao, Herve Glotin Christophe Moulin, Cécile Barat, Mathias Géry, Christophe Ducottet, Christine Largeron Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)Overview of WebCLEF 2008
(Draft) On the Evaluation of Snippet Selection for Information Retrieval REINA at WebCLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)GeoCLEF 2008: the CLEF 2008 Cross-Language
Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview Multi-lingual Geographical Information Retrieval Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2008: Text and Fusion
Approaches for GIR MMIS at GeoCLEF 2008:
Experiments in GIR University of Pittsburgh at GeoCLEF 2008: Towards Effective Geographic
Information Retrieval University of Hagen at GeoCLEF 2008:
Combining IR and QA for
Geographic Information Retrieval SINAI-GIR System. University of Jaén at GeoCLEF 2008 The UPV at GeoCLEF 2008: The GeoWorSE System TextMESS at GeoCLEF 2008: Result Merging with Fuzzy Borda Ranking INAOE at GeoCLEF 2008: A Ranking Approach
based on Sample Documents Ontology-based Query Construction for GeoCLEF The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2008 GikiP Getting Geographical Answers fromWikipedia: the GikiP
pilot at CLEF Cross-Language Video Retrieval (VideoCLEF)Overview of VideoCLEF 2008: Automatic Generation of
Topic-based Feeds for Dual Language Audio-Visual
Content MIRACLE at VideoCLEF 2008:
Classification of Multilingual Speech Transcripts DCU at VideoCLEF 2008 SINAI at VideoCLEF 2008 The University of Amsterdam at VideoCLEF 2008 VideoCLEF 2008: ASR Classification based on
Wikipedia Categories Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF) Overview of CLEF 2008 INFILE Pilot Track Working Notes for the InFile Campaign :
Online Document Filtering Using 1 Nearest
Neighbor Morpho Challenge at CLEF 2008 Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis Evaluation by a Comparison to a Linguistic Gold Standard – Morpho Challenge 2008 Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis Evaluation by IR experiments – Morpho Challenge 2008 Retrieval Experiments at Morpho Challenge 2008 Allomorfessor: Towards Unsupervised Morpheme
Analysis Morphological Induction Through Linguistic Productivity Using Unsupervised Paradigm Acquisition for Prefixes ParaMor and Morpho Challenge 2008 Appendices - Results for CLEF 2008 Campaign Appendix A: Results of the TEL@CLEF Task Appendix B: Results of the Persian@CLEF Task Appendix C: Results of the Robust Task Appendix D: Results of the Domain Specific Track Appendix E: Results of the GeoCLEF Track Appendix F: Participating Institutions |