CLEF 2009 – WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

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 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	Break
16.30 – 17.00	iCLEF Track Overview iCLEF 2009: the Good and the Bad – Julio Gonzalo, LSI-UNED, Spain
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, France 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 - Ballroom
09.00 – 09.30	VideoCLEF Track Overview VideoCLEF 2009: Speech-based Multimedia Content Enrichment – Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, The 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 Overview of the INFILE Track at CLEF 2009: Multilingual INformation FILtering Evaluation – Romaric Besançon, CEA LIST, France
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 11.20	MorphoChallenge Overview 2009 MorphoChallenge Task at CLEF – Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
11.20 – 11.40	Grid@CLEF Overview 2009 Pilot Track: Overview and Lessons Learned – Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
11.45 – 12.15	Invited Paper Evolution of NTCIR: Infrastructure of Large-scale Information Access Technologies Evaluation and Testing – 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 (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^{, 1}Universidad 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 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 - Nedim Lipka, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany Persian@CLEF - Current and Future Research Directions - 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 an 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 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 XRCE's Participation in ImageCLEF Photo Retrieval Task - Stephane Clinchant, 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 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: A Trainable Multi-factored QA System - Radu Ion, RACAI, Romania Semantic Relatedness and Cross-lingual Passage Retrieval - Arantxa Otegi, IXA NLP Group, University 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, UC Berkeley, USA GIRSA-WP at GikiCLEF: Integration of Structured Information and Decomposition of Questions - Johannes Leveling, Dublin City University, 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 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 Connecting the Xtrieval and CIRCO frameworks - Jens Kuersten, Technical University Chemnitz, Germany Decomposing Text Processing for Retrieval - Ray Larson, UC Berkeley, USA Robust-WSD Combining Probabilistic and Translation-Based Models for Information Retrieval based on Word Sense Annotations - Elisabeth Wolf, Delphine Bernhard, Iryna Gurevych - Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany UNIBA-SENSE @ CLEF 2009: Robust WSD task - Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo and Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy Application of Axiomatic Approaches to Crosslanguage Retrieval - Roman Kern, Andreas Juffinger and Michael Granitzer, Know-Center, Austria 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 - 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) 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 Moreau, ELDA, France Plans for CLEF 2010 - Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Italy (to lead the discussion)