CLEF 2009 – WORKSHOP

 

The CLEF 2009 Workshop was held from 30 September to 2 October in Corfu, Greece, immediately following the thirteenth European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009). It was preceded by the Theseus/ImageCLEF workshop on Visual Information Retrieval Evaluation.

The aim of the Workshop was to present and discuss the results of the CLEF 2009 evaluation campaign.
You can see the programme and the presentations here below (work in progress).

 

Wednesday, 30 September

12.30 14.00

Registration

14.00 18.40

Plenary Sessions - Ballroom

14.00 – 14.30

Welcome Carol Peters,  ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

14.30 – 15.20

Ad Hoc Track Overview

 

15.20 – 16.00

CLEF-IP Track Overview

 

16.00 – 16.30

Break

16.30 – 17.00

iCLEF Track Overview

 

17.00 – 17.50

QA@CLEF Track Overview

  

17.50 – 18.40

ImageCLEF Track Overview

  • Non-Medical Tasks – Monica Lestari Paramita, University of Sheffield, UK

  • Medical Tasks Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Oregon Health and Science University, USA

 

 

Thursday, 1 October

09.00 15.30

Plenary Sessions - Ballroom

09.00 – 09.30

VideoCLEF Track Overview

 

09.30 10.00 

 

LogCLEF Track Overview

10.00 – 10.30

INFILE Track Overview

 

10.30 – 11.00

Break

11.00 – 11.20

MorphoChallenge Overview

 

11.20 – 11.40

Grid@CLEF Overview

11.45 – 12.15

KeyNote

12.15 – 13.00

Poster Boaster Session

13.00 – 14.30

Lunch

14.00 – 15.30

Posters and Demos (Pool Room 1 & Pool Room 2)

Posters

  • Features influencing Retrieval in Persian Language - Ljiljana Dolamic, & Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

  • Alicante at CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD Track - Javi Fernández, Rubén Izquierdo and José M. Gómez, University of Alicante, Spain

  • GikiCLEF topics and Wikipedia articles: Did it Blend? - Nuno Cardoso, Linguateca, University of Lisbon, Portugal

  • Are Passages Enough? The MIRACLE Team Participation in QA@CLEF2009 - María Teresa Vicente-Díez, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Paloma Martínez, Julián Moreno Schneider, Marta Garrote Salazar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

  • Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: The UPC Experience in QAst 2009 - Pere R. Comas and Jordi Turmo, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

  • TIA-INAOE’s Participation in ImageCLEF 2009 (Large-Scale Photo-Annotation) - Hugo Jair Escalante, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico

  • MIRACLE (FI) at ImageCLEFphoto 2009 - R. Granados1, X. Benavent2, R. Agerri1, Ana García-Serrano3, J.M. Goñi1, J. Gomar2, E. de Ves2, J. Domingo2, G. Ayala2, 1Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2Universidad de Valencia; 3Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain

  • The University of Glasgow at ImageClefPhoto 2009 - G. Zuccon, T. Leelanupab, A. Goyal, M. Halvey, P. Punitha, J. M. Jose, University of Glasgow, UK

  • IAM@ImageCLEF 2009 - Jonathon Hare, David Dupplaw, and Paul Lewis, University of Southampton, UK.

  • The SAIAPR TC12 Benchmark - Hugo Jair Escalante, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico

  • Evaluating Fusion Techniques at Different Domains at ImageCLEF Subtasks - Sergio Navarro, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis, University of Alicante, Spain

  • i-score, Image-Semantic and COntent based REtrieval system - Giannis Boutsis and Theodore Kalamboukis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

  • Topological Localization of Mobile Robots using Probabilistic Support Vector Classification - Yan Gao and Yiqun Li,  Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

  • The University of Amsterdam's Visual Concept Detection System - Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers and Arnold W. M. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Non-parametric Density Estimation Algorithms - Ainhoa Llorente, Suzanne Little and Stefan Rüger, The Open University, UK

  • XRCE participation in Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task - Gabriela Csurka and Yan Liu, Xerox Research Center Europe, France

  • SZTAKI @ ImageCLEF 2009 - Bálint Daróczy, András A. Benczúr, Zsolt Fekete, Dávid Nemeskey, István Petrás, Dávid Siklósi, Zsuzsa Weiner, SZTAKI, Hungary

  • UPMC/LIP6 at ImageCLEFannotation 2009: Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation - Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Sabrina Tollari, Ludovic Denoyer, Patrick Gallinari,  Université Pierre et Marie CURIE – Paris 6, UMR CNRS, France

  • Semantic Inter-media Image Retrieval in Photographic Collections - Osama El Demerdash, Leila Kosseim and Sabine Bergler, Concordia University, Canada

  • A Particle-filter-based Self-localization Method using Invariant Features as Visual Information - Jesús Martínez-Gómez, Alejandro Jiménez-Picazo,  Ismael García-Varea, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  • University of Glasgow at ImageCLEF 2009 Robot Vision Task - Yue Feng, Martin Halvey & Joemon M. Jose, University of Glagow, UK

  • Patent Retrieval Experiments in the Context of the CLEF IP Track 2009 - Daniela Becks, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl, Ralph Kölle, University of Hildesheim, Germany

  • Search Log Analysis at the University of Sunderland - Michael Oakes and Yan Xu,  University of Sunderland, UK

  • Morphological Acquisition by Formal Analogy - Jean-François Lavallée & Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal, Canada

  • PROMODES: A Probabilistic Generative Model for Word  Decomposition - Sebastian Spiegler, Bruno Golenia, Peter Flach, University of Bristol, UK

  • Chemnitz Retrieval Group: Xtrieval Framework @ CLEF 2009 - Jens Kürsten, Thomas Wilhelm and Maximilian Eibl, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Demos

  • CACAO: A Multilingual Interface to Library Catalogs - Alessio Bosca & Luca Dini, Celi srl, Italy

  • MultiMatch: Access to Cultural Heritage in a MultiModal Way - Franca Debole, ISTI-CNR, Italy

  • Cross-Lingual Search on Wikipedia - Stephane Clinchant, Xerox Research Center Europe, France

  • Automatic Language Detection using Trigram Frequencies - Michael Oakes, University of Sunderland, UK

 

15.30 – 16.30

 

15.30 – 16.30

Ballroom

 

 

 

 

 

15.30 – 16.30

Ithaca

Parallel sessions:  Ad Hoc I  (Ballroom) & VideoCLEF (Ithaca)

  

Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc - TEL & Persian)  Chair: Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy

 

Cross-language Video Retrieval (VideoCLEF)    Chair: Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

16.30 – 17.00

Break

17.00 – 18.30

 

17.00 – 18.30

Ballroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.00 – 18.30

Ithaca

Parallel sessions: ImageCLEF (Ballroom) & CLEF-IP (Ithaca)

 

Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)  Chair: Stefanie Nowak, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT),  Germany

 

Intellectual Property (CLEF-IP) Chairs: Giovanna Roda, Matrixware, Austria & John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria

  • UTA and SICS at CLEF-IP - Antti Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland

  • Prior Art Search using International Patent Classification Codes and All-Claims-Queries - Benjamin Herbert, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

  • Multiple Retrieval Models and Regression Models for Prior Art Search - Patrice Lopez & Laurent Romary, Humboldt University, Germany

  • Panel discussion with John Tait, Giovanna Roda, Antti Järvelin, Benjamin Herbert, Patrice Lopez, Laurent Romary

19.00 – 21.00

Steering Committee Meeting (Poolroom 1)

 

 Friday, 2 October

09.00 – 10.30

 

09.00 – 10.30

Ballroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.00 – 09.45

Ithaca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.45 – 10.30

Ithaca

Parallel Sessions: QA@CLEF (Ballroom) &  iCLEF followed by INFILE (Ithaca)

 

Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF) - Chair: Pamela Forner, CELCT, Trento, Italy

 

ResPubliQA:

 

GIKI-CLEF:

 

QAST:

 

 

 

Interactive Cross-language Retrieval (iCLEF) - Chair: Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden

  • Users' Perceptions of Searching in Flickling - Evgenia Vassilakaki,  Frances Johnson, R.J. Hartley & David Randall, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  • UAIC at iCLEF 2009: Analysis of Logs of Multilingual Image Searches in Flickr - Florin-Tudor Cristea, Vlad Alexa, & Adrian Iftene, Alexandru  Ioan Cuza University, Romania
  • Lexical Ambiguity in Cross-Language Image Retrieval: a Preliminary Analysis - Borja Navarro-Colorado, Marcel Puchol-Blasco, Rafael M. Terol, Sonia Vázquez & Elena Lloret, University of Alicante, Spain

 

 

Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF) - Chair: Romaric Besançon, CEA LIST, France

  • Batch Document Filtering Using Nearest Neighbor Algorithm - Ali Mustafa Qamar, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), France
  • Using Human Plausible Reasoning as a Framework for Multilingual Information Filtering - Asma Damankesh, University of Wollongong in Dubai

 

10.30 – 11.00

Break

11.00 – 12.00

 

11.00 – 12.00

Ballroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.00 – 12.00

Ithaca

 

 

Parallel Sessions: Ad Hoc-2 (Ballroom) & LogCLEF (Ithaca)

 

Robust-WSD Disambiguation Task and Grid@CLEF Chair: Donna Harman, NIST, USA
 

Grid@CLEF


Robust-WSD

Log File Analysis – Chair: Giorgio Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy

 

12.00 – 13.00

Break Out Sessions - ImageCLEF (Ballroom) -  CLEF-IP (Ithaca) - LogCLEF (Poolroom 1))

13.00 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 17.00

 

14.30 – 15.00

15.00 – 15.30

15.30 – 15.45

15.45 – 17.00

Final Session - Chair: Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Italy (Ballroom)