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Working Notes for the CLEF 2009 Workshop, Corfu, Greece

ISSN: 1818-8044

ISBN: 978-88-88506-84-5

 

CONTENTS

 

What Happened in CLEF2009: Introduction to the Working Notes
         Carol Peters

 

Multilingual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)

 

CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Track Overview: TEL & Persian Tasks

        Nicola Ferro and Carol Peters

CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Track Overview: Robust - WSD Task
         Eneko Agirre, Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Thomas Mandl and Arantxa Otegi

TEL@CLEF

Evaluating Cross-Language Explicit Semantic Analysis and Cross Querying at TEL@CLEF 2009
         Maik Anderka, Nedim Lipka and Benno Stein

Language Modeling and Document Re-Ranking: Trinity Experiments at TEL@CLEF-2009
         Dong Zhou and Vincent Wade

Multilingual Query Expansion for CLEF Adhoc-TEL
         Ray R. Larson

Experiments with N-Gram Prefixes on a Multinomial Language Model versus Lucene’s Off-the-shelf Ranking Scheme and Rocchio Query Expansion (TEL@CLEF Monolingual Task)
         Jorge Machado
, Bruno Martins and José Borbinha

Chemnitz at CLEF 2009 Ad-Hoc TEL Task: Combining Different Retrieval Models and Addressing the Multilinguality
         Jens Kürsten

Cross-lingual Information Retrieval based on Multiple Indexes
         Philipp Sorg, Marlon Braun, David Nicolay and Philipp Cimiano

UAIC: Participation in TEL@CLEF Task
         Adrian Iftene, Alina-Elena Mihăilă and  Ingride-Paula Epure

An Evaluation of Greek-English Cross Language Retrieval within the CLEF Ad-Hoc Bilingual Task
         Polyxeni Katsiouli and Theodore Kalamboukis

HIT2Lab at CLEF: an Exploration of the TEL Task
         He Xiaoning, Qi Haoliang, Wang Peidong, Yang Muyun, Lei Guohua and Xue Yong

CACAO Project at the TEL@CLEF 2009 Task
         Alessio Bosca and Luca Dini

TCD-DCU at TEL@CLEF 2009: Document Expansion, Query Translation and Language Modeling
         Johannes Leveling, Dong Zhou, Gareth F. Jones, and Vincent Wade

Persian@CLEF

 

JHU Experiments in Monolingual Farsi Document Retrieval at CLEF 2009

         Paul McNamee
 

TEL and Persian Mixed

 

Query Wikification: Mining Structured Queries From Unstructured Information Needs using Wikipedia-based Semantic Analysis
         Amir Hossein Jadidinejad and Fariborz Mahmoudi

 

German, French, English and Persian Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2009
         Stephen Tomlinson

 

Robust

UNIBA-SENSE @ CLEF 2009: Robust WSD task
         Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo and Giovanni Semeraro

Application of Axiomatic Approaches to Crosslanguage Retrieval
         Roman Kern, Andreas Juffinger and Michael Granitzer

UniGe at CLEF 2009 Robust WSD Task (abstract only)
         Jacques Guyot, Gilles Falquet and Saïd Radhouani

Using Semantic Relatedness and Word Sense Disambiguation for (CL)IR
         Eneko Agirre, Arantxa Otegi and Hugo Zaragoza

Combining Probabilistic and Translation-Based Models for Information Retrieval based on Word Sense Annotations
         Elisabeth Wolf, Delphine Bernhard and Iryna Gurevych

UFRGS@CLEF2009: Retrieval by Numbers
         Thyago Bohrer Borges and Viviane P. Moreira

 REINA at CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD Task: Partial Use of WSD Information for Retrieval
         Angel Zazo, Carlos G. Figuerola, Jose L. Alonso Berrocal and Raquel Gomez

NLEL at CLEF 2009 Robust WSD Task
         Davide Buscaldi and Paolo Rosso

Alicante at CLEF 2009 Robust-WSD Task
         Javi Fernández, Rubén Izquierdo and José M. Gómez
        

Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval (iCLEF)


Overview of iCLEF 2009: Exploring Search Behaviour in a Multilingual Folksonomy Environment
         Julio Gonzalo, Víctor Peinado, Paul Clough and Jussi Karlgren 

Users’ Image Seeking Behavior in a Multilingual Tag Environment
         Miguel E Ruiz and Pok Chin

UAIC at iCLEF 2009: Analysis of Logs of Multilingual Image Searches in Flickr
         Florin-Tudor Cristea, Vlad Alexa and Adrian Iftene

UNED at iCLEF 2009: Analysis of Multilingual Image Search Sessions
         Víctor Peinado, Fernando López-Ostenero and Julio Gonzalo

Lexical Ambiguity in Cross-language Image Retrieval: a Preliminary Analysis
         Borja Navarro-Colorado, Marcel Puchol-Blasco, Rafael M. Terol, Sonia Vázquez and Elena Lloret.

Users' Perceptions of Searching in FlickLing
         Evgenia Vassilakaki, Frances Johnson, R.J. Hartley and David Randall


Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)

Overview of ResPubliQA 2009: Question Answering Evaluation over European Legislation
         Anselmo Peñas, Pamela Forner, Richard Sutcliffe, Álvaro Rodrigo, Corina Forăscu, Iñaki Alegria, Danilo Giampiccolo, Nicolas Moreau and Petya Osenova

Overview of QAST 2009
         J. Turmo, P.R. Comas, S. Rosset, O. Galibert, N. Moreau, D. Mostefa, P. Rosso and D. Buscaldi

GikiCLEF: Crosscultural Issues in an International Setting: Asking non-English-centered Questions to Wikipedia
         Diana Santos and Luís Miguel Cabral

ResPubliQA

The LogAnswer Project at CLEF 2009
         Ingo Gloeckner and Bjoern Pelzer

Elhuyar-IXA: Semantic Relatedness and Cross-lingual Passage Retrieval
         Eneko Agirre, Olatz Ansa, Xabier Arregi, Maddalen Lopez de Lacalle, Arantxa Otegi, Xabier Saralegi and Hugo Zaragoza

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

NLEL-MAAT at CLEF-ResPubliQA
         Santiago Correa, Davide Buscaldi and Paolo Rosso

Question Answering on English and Romanian Languages
         Adrian Iftene, Diana Trandabăţ, Ionuţ Pistol, Alex-Mihai Moruz, Maria Husarciuc, Mihai Sterpu and Călin Turliuc

A Trainable Multi-factored QA System
         Radu Ion, Dan Ştefănescu, Alexandru Ceauşu, Dan Tufiş, Elena Irimia and Verginica Barbu-Mititelu

FIDJI in ResPubliQA 2009
         Xavier Tannier and Véronique Moriceau

Information Retrieval Baselines for the ResPubliQA Task (UPDATED VERSION: December 2009)
         Joaquín Pérez, Guillermo Garrido, Alvaro Rodrigo, Lourdes Araujo and Anselmo Peñas

A Naïve Approach for Monolingual Question Answering
         Rohit Bharadwaj, Surya Ganesh Vasudeva Varma

Approaching Question Answering by means of Paragraph Validation
         Álvaro Rodrigo, Joaquín Pérez, Anselmo Peñas, Guillermo Garrido and Lourdes Araujo

Question Answering in Speech Transcripts (QAST)

CLEF 2009 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology
         Matthias H. Heie, Josef R. Novak, Edward W. D. Whittaker and Sadaoki Furui

INAOE at QAST 2009: Evaluating the Usefulness of a Phonetic Codification of Transcriptions
         Alejandro Reyes-Barragán, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda and Manuel Montes-y-Gómez

Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2009
         Pere R. Comas and Jordi Turmo

LIMSI participation  in the QAst 2009 track
         Guillaume Bernard, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Galibert, Eric Bilinski and Gilles Adda

GikiCLEF

TALP at GikiCLEF 2009
         Daniel Ferrés and Horacio Rodríguez

Where in Wikipedia is that Answer? XLDB at the GikiCLEF 2009 task
         Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer and Mário J. Silva

Interactive Probabilistic Search for GikiCLEF
         Ray R. Larson

EQUAL: Encyclopaedic QUestion Answering for Lists
          Iustin Dornescu

BBK-UFRGS@CLEF2009: Query Expansion of Geographic Place Names
         Richard Flemmings, Joana Barros, André P. Geraldo and Viviane P. Moreira

GIRSA-WP at GikiCLEF: Integration of Structured Information and Decomposition of Questions
         Sven Hartrumpf and Johannes Leveling

Wikipedia Entity Retrieval for Dutch and Spanish
         Gosse Bouma and Sergio Duarte

UAIC at GikiCLEF 2009
         Adrian Iftene, Andrei-Cristian Prodan and  Ion-Cătălin Condrea


Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)

Diversity in Photo Retrieval: Overview of the ImageCLEFPhoto Task 2009
         Monica Lestari Paramita, Mark Sanderson and Paul Clough

Overview of the CLEF 2009 Large Scale - Visual Concenpt Detection and Annotation Task
         Stefanie Nowak and Peter Dunker

Overview of the WikipediaMM Task at ImageCLEF 2009
         Theodora Tsikrika and Jana Kludas

Overview of the CLEF 2009 Medical Image Retrieval Track
         Henning Müller, Jayashree Kalpathy–Cramer, Ivan Eggel, Steven Bedrick, Saïd Radhouani, Brian Bakke, Charles E. Kahn Jr. and William Hersh

Overview of the CLEF 2009 Medical Image Annotation Track
         Tatiana Tommasi, Barbara Caputo, Petra Welter, Mark Oliver Güld and Thomas M. Deserno  

Overview of the CLEF 2009 Robot Vision Track
         Barbara Caputo, Andrzej Pronobis and Patric Jensfelt

ImageCLEFphoto

MIRACLE-GSI at ImageCLEFphoto 2009: Comparing Clustering vs. Classification for Result Reranking
         Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano and José C. González-Cristóbal

CLaC at ImageCLEF 2009
         Osama El Demerdash, Sabine Bergler and  Leila Kosseim

Multimodal Photo Retrieval through Finding Similar Documents Enhanced with Visual Clues -  a Baseline Method
         Bartosz Broda, Mariusz Paradowski and Halina Kwanicka

IAM@ImageCLEFphoto 2009: Experiments on Maximising Diversity using Image Features
         Jonathon S. Hare, David P. Dupplaw and Paul H. Lewis

CWI at the Photo Retrieval Task of ImageCLEF 2009
         Theodora Tsikrika and Arjen P. de Vries

SINAI at ImagePhoto 2009
         M.A. García-Cumbreras, M.C. Díaz-Galiano, A. Montejo-Raez and M.T. Martín-Valdivia

The University of Glasgow at ImageCLEFPhoto 2009
         Guido Zuccon, Teerapong Leelanupab, Anuj Goyal, Martin Halvey, P. Punitha and Joemon M. Jose

Clustering for Text and Image-based Photo Retrieval at CLEF 2009
         Qian Zhu and Diana Inkpe
n

MIRACLE (FI) at ImageCLEFphoto 2009
         R. Granados, X. Benavent, R. Agerri, A. García-Serrano, J.M. Goñi, J. Gomar, E. de Ves, J. Domingo and G. Ayala

I2R at ImageCLEF Photo Retrieval 2009
         Sheng Gao and Joo-Hwee Lim
 

ImageCLEFwiki

Combining Text/Image in WikipediaMM Task 2009
         Christophe Moulin, Cécile Barat, Cédric Lemaître, Mathias Géry, Christophe Ducottet and Christine Largeron

DEU at ImageCLEF 2009 WikipediaMM Task: Experiments with Expansion and Reranking Approaches
         Deniz Kilinç and Adil Alpkoçak

IIIT-H at ImageCLEF Wikipedia MM 2009
         Srinivasarao Vundavalli

Visual Reranking for Image Retrieval over the Wikipedia Corpus
         Débora Myoupo, Adrian Popescu, Hervé Le Borgne and Pierre-Alain Moëllic

SINAI at ImageCLEF 2009 WikipediaMM Task
         M.C. Díaz-Galiano, M.T. Martín-Valdivia, L.A. Ureña-López and J.M. Perea-Ortega

DCU at WikipediaMM 2009: Document Expansion from Wikipedia Abstracts
          Jinming Min, Peter Wilkins, Johannes Leveling and Gareth Jones



ImageCLEFmed

MIRACLE at ImageCLEFmed 2009: Reevaluating Strategies for Automatic Topic Expansion
         Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román and José C. González-Cristóbal

Towards A Better Performance for Medical Image Retrieval Using An Integrated Approach
         Zheng Ye, Xiangji Huang and Hongfei Lin

United Institute of Informatics - Problems at CLEF 2009 Medical Image Retrieval Task
         Vassili Kovalev, Igor Safonov, Alexander Dmitruk and Alexander Prus

DEU at ImageCLEFmed 2009: Evaluating a Re-ranking and Integrated Retrieval Model
         Tolga Berber and Adil Alpo
çak

UNT at ImageCLEFmed 2009
         Miguel E Ruiz

Multimodal Medical Image Retrieval: Improving Precision at ImageCLEF 2009
         Saïd Radhouani, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Steven Bedrick, Brian Bakke and William Hersh

Medical Image Retrieval: ISSR at CLEF 2009
         Waleed Arafa and Ragia Ibrahim

SINAI at ImageCLEF 2009 Medical Task
         M.C. Díaz-Galiano, M.T. Martín-Valdivia, L.A. Ureña-López and M.A. García-Cumbreras

Combined Content based and Semantic Image Retrieval
         Ioannis Boutsis and Theodore Kalamboukis

Text- and Content-based Approaches to Image Retrieval for the ImageCLEF 2009 Medical Retrieval Track
          Matthew Simpson, Md Mahmudur Rahman, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sameer Antani and George R. Thoma

Analysis Combination and Pseudo Relevance Feedback in a Conceptual Language Model: LIRIS participation in ImageClefMed
         Loïc Maisonnasse and Farah Harrathi

Taking Benefit of Query and Document Expansion using MeSH Descriptors in Medical ImageCLEF 2009
         Julien Gobeill, Douglas Theodoro, Emilie Patsche and Patrick Ruch

ImageCLEFmed Annotation

Addressing the ImageClef 2009 Challenge Using a Patch-based Visual Words Representation
         U. Avni, J. Goldberger and H. Greenspan

ImageCLEF 2009 Medical Image Annotation Task: PCTs for Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification
         Ivica Dimitrovski, Dragi Kocev, Suzana Loskovska and Saso Dzeroski

Medical Image Retrieval and Automatic Annotation: VPA-SABANCI at ImageCLEF 2009
         Devrim Unay, Octavian Soldea, Sureyya Ozogur-Akyuz, Mujdat Cetin and Aytul Ercil

Image Annotation & Robot Vision

LSIS Scaled Photo Annotations: Discriminant Features SVM versus Visual Dictionary based on Image Frequency
         Zhong-Qiu Zhao, Herve Glotin and Emilie Dumont

The University of Amsterdam's Concept Detection System at ImageCLEF 2009
        Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers and Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Comparison of Various AVEIR Visual Concept Detectors with an Index of Carefulness
         H. Glotin, A. Fakeri-Tabrizi, P. Mulhem, M. Ferecatu, Z. Zhao, S. Tollari, G. Quenot, H. Sahbi, E. Dumont and P. Gallinari

I2R ImageCLEF Photo Annotation 2009 Working Notes
         Jiquan Ngiam and Hanlin Goh

Joint Equal Contribution of Global and Local Features for Image Annotation
         Supheakmungkol Sarin and Wataru Kameyama

University of Glasgow at Image CLEF 2009 Robot Vision Task
         Yue Feng, Martin Halvey and Joemon M. Jose

MMIS at ImageCLEF 2009: Non-parametric Density Estimation Algorithms
         Ainhoa Llorente, Suzanne Little and Stefan Rüger

UAIC: Participation in ImageCLEF 2009 Robot Vision Task
         Emanuela Boroş, George Roşca and Adrian Iftene

UAIC at ImageCLEF 2009 Photo Annotation Task
         Adrian Iftene, Loredana Vamanu and Cosmina Croitoru

Fast LSIS Profile Entropy Features for Robot Visual Self-Localization
         Herve Glotin, Zhong-Qiu Zhao and Emilie Dumonti

A Particle-Filter Based Self-Localization Method using Invariant Features as Visual Information
         Jesús Martínez-Gómez, Alejando Jiménez-Picazo, and Ismael García-Varea

Visual Language Modeling for Mobile Localization: LIG Participation in RobotVision’09
         Trong-Ton Pham, Loïc Maisonnasse and Philippe Mulhem

IAM@ImageCLEFPhotoAnnotation 2009: Naïve Application of a Linear-Algebraic Semantic Space
         Jonathon S. Hare and Paul H. Lewis

Fraunhofer FIRST's Submission to ImageCLEF2009 Photo Annotation Task: Non-sparse Multiple Kernel Learning
         Alexander Binder and Motoaki Kawanabe

TELECOM ParisTech at ImageClef 2009: Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task
         Marin Ferecatu and Hichem Sahbi

UPMC/LIP6 at ImageCLEFannotation2009: Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation
         Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Sabrina Tollari, Ludovic Denoyer and Patrick Gallinari

ImageCLEF Mixed

Evaluating Fusion Techniques at Different Domains in ImageCLEF Subtasks
         Sergio Navarro, Rafael Muñoz and Fernando Llopis

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

XRCE’s Participation in ImageCLEF 2009
         Julien Ah-Pine, Stephane Clinchant, Gabriela Csurka and Yan Liu

MRIM-LIG at ImageCLEF 2009: Photo Retrieval and Photo Annotation Tasks
         Philippe Mulhem, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Georges Quénot and Rami Al Batal

The MedGIFT group at ImageCLEF 2009
         Xin Zhou, Ivan Eggel and  Henning Müller

INRIA-LEAR's Participation in ImageCLEF 2009
         Matthijs Douze, Matthieu Guillaumin, Thomas Mensink, Cordelia Schmid and Jakob Verbeek

TIA-INAOE's Participation in ImageCLEF 2009
         Hugo Jair Escalante, Jesús A. González, Carlos A. Hernández, Aurelio López, Manuel Montes, Eduardo Morales, Elías Ruiz, Luis E. Sucar and Luis Villaseñor

 

Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE)

Overview of CLEF 2009 INFILE track
         Romaric Besançon, Stéphane Chaudiron, Djamel Mostefa, Ismaïl Timimi, Khalid Choukri and Meriama Laïb

Batch Document Filtering Using Nearest Neighbor Algorithm
         Ali Mustafa Qamar, Eric Gaussier and Nathalie Denos

Hosur’Tech Participation in Interactive INFILE
         John Anton Chrisostom Ronald, Aurélie Rossi and Christian Fluhr

UAIC: Participation in INFILE@CLEF Task
         Cristian-Alexandru Drăguşanu, Alecsandru Grigoriu, Andreea-Loredana Andreşan, Daniela Epure, Dan Anton and Adrian Iftene

SINAI at INFILE 2009: Experiments with Google News
         Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Jos e M. Perea-Ortega, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano and  L. Alfonso Ureña-López

Using Human Plausible Reasoning as a Framework for Multilingual Information Filtering
         Asma Damankesh, Jaspreet Singh, Fatima Jahedpari, Khaled Shaalan, and Farhad Oroumchian


Cross-LanguageVideo Retrieval (VideoCLEF)

Overview of VideoCLEF 2009: New Perspectives on Speech-based Multimedia Content Enrichment
         Martha Larson, Eamonn Newman and Gareth Jones

A Cocktail Approach to the VideoCLEF'09 Linking Task
         Stephan Raaijmakers, Corne Versloot and Joost de Wit

Exploiting Speech Recognition Transcripts for Narrative Peak Detection in Short-Form Documentaries
         Martha Larson, Bart Jochems, Ewine Smits and Roeland Ordelman

Chemnitz at VideoCLEF 2009: Experiments and Observations on Treating Classification as an IR Task
         Jens Kürsten and Maximilian Eibl

Identification of Narrative Peaks in Clips: Text Features Perform Best.
         Joep J.M. Kierkels, Mohammad Soleymani and Thierry Pun

SINAI at VideoCLEF 2009
       
José M. Perea-Ortega, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia and L. Alfonso Ureña-López

DCU at VideoCLEF 2009
         Ágnes Gyarmati and Gareth J. F. Jones

UAIC: Participation in VideoCLEF Task
          Tudor-Alexandru Dobrilă, Mihail-Ciprian Diaconaşu, Irina-Diana Lungu and Adrian Iftene

 

Intellectual Property (CLEF-IP)

CLEF-IP 2009: Retrieval Experiments in the Intellectual Property Domain
         Giovanna Roda, John Tait, Florina Piroi and Veronika Zenz

Prior Art Retrieval using the Claims Section as a Bag of Words
         Suzan Verberne and Eva D'hondt

Exploring a Wide Range of Simple Pre and Post Processing Strategies for Patent Searching in CLEF IP 2009
         Julien Gobeill, Douglas Theodoro and Patrick Ruch

 

DCU @ CLEF-IP 2009: Exploring Standard IR Techniques on Patent Retrieval
         Walid Magdy, Johannes Leveling and Gareth J.F. Jones

Automatically Generating Queries for Prior Art Search
         Erik Graf, Leif Azzopardi and  Keith van Rijsbergen

UTA and SICS at CLEF-IP
         Antti Järvelin, Antti, Anni Järvelin and Preben Hansen

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

NLEL-MAAT at CLEF-IP
         Santiago Correa, Davide Buscaldi and Paolo Rosso

Multiple Retrieval Models and Regression Models for Prior Art Search
         Patrice Lopez and Laurent Romary

Running CLEF-IP Experiments using a Graphical Query Builder
         W. Alink, R. Cornacchia and A. P. de Vries

UAIC: Participation in CLEF-IP Track
         Adrian Iftene, Ovidiu Ionescu, George-Răzvan Oancea and Andrei-Dumitru Balmoş

Prior Art Search using International Patent Classification Codes and All-Claims-Queries
         György Szarvas, Benjamin Herbert and Iryna Gurevych

The UniGe Experiments on the Search for Earlier Patents (Abstract only)
         Jacques Guyot, Gilles Falquet and Karim Benzineb

University of Santiago de Compostela at CLEF-IP09
         José Carlos Toucedo and David E. Losada

 

Log File Analysis (LogCLEF)

LogCLEF 2009: the CLEF 2009 Multilingual Logfile Analysis Track Overview
         Thomas Mandl, Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Alexander Yeh, Inderjeet Mani, Christine Doran and Julia Maria Schulz

Search Path Visualization and Session Performance Evaluation with Log Files from The European Library (TEL)
         Katrin Lamm, Thomas Mandl and Ralph Kölle

UAIC: Participation in LAGI Task
          Adrian Iftene

CACAO Project at the LogCLEF Track
         Alessio Bosca and  Luca Dini

TCD-DCU at LogCLEF 2009: An Analysis of Queries, Actions, and Interface Languages
         M. Rami Ghorab, Johannes Leveling, Dong Zhou, Gareth J. F. Jones and Vincent Wade

A Search Engine based on Query Logs and Search Log Analysis at the University of Sunderland
         Michael Oakes and Yan Xu

A Semantic Perspective on Query Log Analysis
         Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, Bouke Huurnink and Edgar Meij

 

Grid Experiments (Grid@CLEF)

CLEF  2009: Grid@CLEF Pilot Track Overview
         Nicola Ferro and Donna Harman

The Importance of being Grid: Chemnitz University of Technology at Grid@CLEF
        
Maximilian Eibl and Jens Kürsten

Decomposing Text Processing for Retrieval: Cheshire tries GRID@CLEF
          Ray R. Larson

 

Miscellaneous

UniNE at CLEF 2009: Persian Ad Hoc Retrieval and IP
         Ljiljana Dolamić, Claire Fautsch and Jacques Savoy

 

MorphoChallenge at CLEF 2009

Overview and Results of Morpho Challenge 2009
         Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja, Ville T. Turunen, Graeme W. Blackwood and William Byrne

MorphoNet: Exploring the Use of Community Structure for Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis
         Delphine Bernhard

Unsupervised Learning of Morphology by using Syntactic Categories
         Burcu Can and Suresh Manandhar

UNGRADE: UNsupervised GRAph DEcomposition
         Bruno Golénia, Sebastian Spiegler and Peter Flach

Morphological Acquisition by Formal Analogy
         Jean-Francois Lavallee and Philippe Langlais

A Rule-Based Unsupervised Morphology Learning Framework
         Constantine Lignos, Erwin Chan, Mitchell P. Marcus, and Charles Yang

Probabilistic ParaMor
         Christian Monson, Kristy Hollingshead and Brian Roark

PROMODES: A Probabilistic Generative Model for Word Decomposition
         Sebastian Spiegler, Bruno Golenia, Peter Flach

Multiple Sequence Alignment for Morphology Induction
         Tzvetan Tchoukalov, Brian Roark and Christian Monson

Unsupervised Morpheme Discovery with Allomorfessor
         Sami Virpioja and Oskar Kohonen
 

Appendices - Results for CLEF 2009 Campaign

Appendix A: Results of the TEL@CLEF Track

Appendix B: Results of the Persian@CLEF Track

Appendix C: Results of the Robust-WSD Track

Appendix D: Results of the Grid@CLEF Track

CLEF 2009 Participating Institutions

 

 

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