CLEF 2008 – WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

 

 

Wednesday, 30 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, University of Padua, Italy

  • Robust-WSD Exercise – Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain

 

15.20 – 16.00

CLEF-IP Track Overview

  • CLEF-IP 2009: Retrieval Experiments in the Intellectual Property Domain - Giovanna Roda, Matrixware, Austria

 

16.00 – 16.30

iCLEF Track Overview

Title(s) – Presenter(s)- Affiliation(s)

 

16.30 – 17.00

Break

17.00 – 17.50

QA@CLEF Track Overview

  • QA Introduction - Anselmo Peñas, UNED NLP & IR Group, Spain

  • Overview of ResPubliQA 2009: Question Answering Evaluation over European Legislation - Anselmo Peñas, UNED NLP & IR Group, Spain

  • Overview of QAST 2009 - Nicolas Moreau, ELDA, Paris

  • Overview of GikiCLEF 2009 - Diana Santos and Luis Miguel Cabral, Linguateca, Sintef ICT, Norway

  

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

09.00 – 09.30

VideoCLEF Track Overview

  • VideoCLEF 2009: Speech-based Multimedia Content Enrichment - Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

 

09.30 - 10.00 

 

LogCLEF Track Overview

  • Log Analysis and Geographic Query Identification (LAGI) - Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
  • Log Analysis for Digital Societies (LADS) - Giorgio di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy

10.00 – 10.30

INFILE Track Overview

  • Title(s) – Presenter(s)- Affiliation(s)

 

10.30  – 11.00

Break

11.00 – 11.20

MorphoChallenge Overview

  • Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U.Technology, Finland

 

11.20 – 11.40

GridCLEF Track Overview

  • Title(s)  – Presenter(s)- Affiliation(s)

     

11.45 – 12.15

What's Happening at NTCIR

  • Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

     

12.15 – 13.00

Poster Boaster Session

13.00  – 14.30

Lunch

14.00 – 15.30

Posters and Demos

 

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, UP

  • 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 Large Scale 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

  • ??? - Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico

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

  • 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

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

  • 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 7606 – LIP6, France

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

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

  • 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

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

  • ???  - Manuel Montes, INOAE, Mexico

  • Ad-Hoc, Grid, ImageCLEFphoto and VideoCLEF: Chemnitz at CLEF 2009 - Jens Kürsten, Thomas Wilhelm and Maximilian Eibl

 

Demos

  • MultiMatch: Multilingual / Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage - Franca Debole, ISTI-CNR, Italy

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

  • Automatic Language Detection on ERuroParl - Michael oakes, University of Sunderland, UK

  • The CACAO Prototype - Alessio Bosca - Celi srl, Italy

 

15.30 - 16.30

Parallel sessions:  Ad Hoc I  & VideoCLEF

  

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

  • Combination of Different IR Models with Xtrieval - Maximilian Eibl, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
  • Combining Concept Based and Text Based Indexes for CLIR - Philipp Sorg, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Cross-Language Explicit Semantic Analysis, CL-ESA,, in the TEL task -  Nedim Lipka, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

    Persian - Abolfazl Aleahmad, University of Tehran, Iran

 

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

  • VideoCLEF 2009: Introductory words - Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands & Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

  • Classification as IR task: Experiments and Observations - Jens Kürsten, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany

  • Identification of Narrative Peaks in Clips: Text Features Perform Best.- Mohammad Soleymani, University of Geneva
    When to cross over? - Cross-language linking using Wikipedia for VideoCLEF 2009 - Agnes Gyarmati, Dublin City University, Ireland

  • A cocktail approach to the VideoCLEF'09 linking task - Stephan Raaijmakers, TNO, The Netherlands

16.30 – 17.00

Break

17.00  – 18.30

Parallel sessions: ImageCLEF & CLEF-IP

 

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

  • Photo retrieval: Stephane Clinchant or Julien Ah-Pine (to be confirmed), XEROX-SAS, France

  • Fraunhofer FIRST’s Submission to ImageCLEF2009 Photo Annotation - Motoaki Kawanabe, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany

  • Combining text/image in WikipediaMM task 2009 - Christophe Moulin, U. Jean Monnet, France

  • A particle-filter-based self-localization method using invariant features as visual information, Ismael García-Varea, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  • Content-based Approaches to Image Retrieval for  the ImageCLEF 2009 Medical Retrieval Track - Dina Demner Fushman, NLM, Bethesda, USA,

  • Addressing the ImageClef 2009 Challenge Using a Patch-based Visual Words Representation, Uri Avni - TAU group,  Israel,

 

 

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

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

 

Friday, 2 October

9.00 - 10.30

 

9.00 - 10.30

 

9.00 - 9.45

 

9.45 - 10.30

Parallel Sessions: QA@CLEF & INFILE plus iCLEF

 

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

 

ResPubliQA:

  • A Trainable Multi-factored QA System - Radu Ion, RACAI, Romania

  • Semantic Relatedness and Cross-lingual Passage Retrieval - Arantxa Otegi, IXA NLP Group, Universtity of the Basque   Country, Spain

  •  ResPubliQA IR Baselines and UNED Participation - Anselmo Peñas, UNED NLP & IR Group, Spain

 

GIKI-CLEF:

  • EQUAL: Encyclopaedic Question Answering for Lists - Iustin Dornescu, Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK

  • Interactive Probabilistic Search for GikiCLEF - Ray R. Larson, University of California at Berkeley, USA

  • GIRSA-WP at GikiCLEF: Integration of Structured Information and Decomposition of Questions, Johannes Leveling, DCU, Ireland

 

QAST:

  • INAOE at QAST 2009: Evaluating the usefulness of a phonetic codification of transcriptions -  Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico.

  • LIMSI Participation  in the QAst 2009 Track - Guillaume Bernard, LIMSI-CNRS, France

 

 

 

Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF) - Chair:

 

 Interactive Cross-language Retrieval (iCLEF) - Chair:

 

 

 

10.30 – 11.00

Break

11.00  – 12.00

Parallel sessions: Ad Hoc-2 & LogCLEF

 

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

  • Jens Kuersten - Connecting the Xtrieval and CIRCO frameworks
  • Ray Larson - Decomposing Text Processing for Retrieval

 

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

  • LADS at Sunderland - Michael Oakes, University of Sunderland, UK

  • CACAO Project at the LogCLEF Track - Alessio Bosca, Celi, Torino, Italy

  • Search Path Visualization and Session Performance Evaluation with Log Files from The European Library (TEL) - Katrin Lamm, University of Hildesheim, Germany

  • TCD-DCU at LogCLEF 2009: An Analysis of Queries, Actions, and Interface Languages - Rami Ghorab, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  • UAIC Participation in LAGI Task - Adrian Iftene, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Romania
     

 

12.00 - 13.00

Break Out Sessions - to be announced

ImageCLEF / LogCLEF

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

  • Report on SIGIR Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation – Jaap Kamps, U.Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Impressions of 10 years of CLEF - Donna Harman , NIST , USA

  • CLEF Test Suites - New Release - Nicolas Morea, ELDA, France

  • Plans for CLEF 2010

 

 

18.00  – 19.30

Poster Session