CLEF 2007:
Budapest, Hungary
Carol Peters, Valentin Jijkoun, Thomas Mandl, Henning Müller, Douglas W. Oard, Anselmo Peñas, Vivien Petras, Diana Santos (Eds.):
Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5152 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-85759-4
Introduction
Part I:
Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)
Monolingual
Cross-Language:
European
Cross-Language:
Non-European
- Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, A. Kumaran:
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System for Indian Languages.
80-87

- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Tapabrata Mondal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque, Srinivasa Rao Godhavarthy:
Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-Hoc Bilingual Task at CLEF 2007.
88-94

- Debasis Mandal, Mayank Gupta, Sandipan Dandapat, Pratyush Banerjee, Sudeshna Sarkar:
Bengali and Hindi to English CLIR Evaluation.
95-102

- Prasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma:
Improving Recall for Hindi, Telugu, Oromo to English CLIR.
103-110

- Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Damani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya:
Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation.
111-118

- Atelach Alemu Argaw:
Amharic-English Information Retrieval with Pseudo Relevance Feedback.
119-126

- Mirna Adriani, Herika Hayurani, Syandra Sari:
Indonesian-English Transitive Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
127-133

Robot
- Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl:
Robust Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim.
134-136

- Fernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras:
SINAI at CLEF Ad-Hoc Robust Track 2007: Applying Google Search Engine for Robust Cross-Lingual Retrieval.
137-142

- Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Carlos G. Figuerola:
Improving Robustness Using Query Expansion.
143-147

- Jesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, Manuel Vilares Ferro:
English-to-French CLIR: A Knowledge-Light Approach through Character N-Grams Alignment.
148-155

- José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano:
MIRACLE Progress in Monolingual Information Retrieval at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2007.
156-159

Part II:
Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific)
Part III:
Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)
- Danilo Giampiccolo, Pamela Forner, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Christelle Ayache, Corina Forascu, Valentin Jijkoun, Petya Osenova, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe:
Overview of the CLEF 2007 Multilingual Question Answering Track.
200-236

- Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Felisa Verdejo:
Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2007.
237-248

- Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Christelle Ayache, Djamel Mostefa, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel:
Overview of QAST 2007.
249-256

Main Task:
Mono- and Bilingual QA
- Gosse Bouma, Geert Kloosterman, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann:
Question Answering with Joost at CLEF 2007.
257-260

- Luís Miguel Cabral, Luís Fernando Costa, Diana Santos:
What Happened to Esfinge in 2007?
261-268

- Sven Hartrumpf, Ingo Glöckner, Johannes Leveling:
Coreference Resolution for Questions and Answer Merging by Validation.
269-272

- Mitchell Bowden, Marian Olteanu, Pasin Suriyentrakorn, Thomas D'Silva, Dan I. Moldovan:
Multilingual Question Answering through Intermediate Translation: LCC's PowerAnswer at QA@CLEF 2007.
273-283

- Dan Tufis, Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceausu:
RACAI's Question Answering System at QA@CLEF2007.
284-291

- Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann, Christian Spurk:
DFKI-LT at QA@CLEF 2007.
292-299

- Georgiana Puscasu, Constantin Orasan:
University of Wolverhampton at CLEF 2007.
300-307

- Chedid Haddad, Bipin C. Desai:
Bilingual Question Answering Using CINDI QA at QA@CLEF 2007.
308-315

- José Saias, Paulo Quaresma:
The University of Évora's Participation in QA@CLEF-2007.
316-323

- Davide Buscaldi, Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis:
Web-Based Anaphora Resolution for the QUASAR Question Answering System.
324-327

- Alberto Téllez-Valero, Antonio Juárez, Gustavo Hernández, Claudia Denicia-Carral, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
A Lexical Approach for Spanish Question Answering.
328-331

- Mirna Adriani, Septian Adiwibowo:
Finding Answers Using Resources in the Internet.
332-335

- Adrian Iftene, Diana Trandabat, Ionut Pistol, Mihai Alex Moruz, Alexandra Balahur, Diana Cotelea, Iustin Dornescu, Iuliana Draghici, Dan Cristea:
UAIC Romanian QA System for QA@CLEF.
336-343

- Valentin Jijkoun, Katja Hofmann, David Ahn, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang:
The University of Amsterdam's Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2007.
344-351

- César de Pablo-Sánchez, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ana González-Ledesma, Doaa Samy, Paloma Martínez, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Harith T. Al-Jumaily:
Combining Wikipedia and Newswire Texts for Question Answering in Spanish.
352-355

- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, David Martins de Matos:
QA@L2F, First Steps at QA@CLEF.
356-363

- Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto, Daniel Vidal:
Priberam's Question Answering System in QA@CLEF 2007.
364-371

Answer Validation Exercise (AVE)
- Ingo Glöckner:
Combining Logic and Aggregation for Answer Selection.
372-376

- Óscar Ferrández, Daniel Micol, Rafael Muñoz, Manuel Palomar:
On the Application of Lexical-Syntactic Knowledge to the Answer Validation Exercise.
377-380

- Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, José M. Perea-Ortega, Fernando Martínez Santiago, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Combining Lexical Information with Machine Learning for Answer Validation at QA@CLEF 2007.
381-386

- Rui Wang, Günter Neumann:
Using Recognizing Textual Entailment as a Core Engine for Answer Validation.
387-390

- Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
A Supervised Learning Approach to Spanish Answer Validation.
391-394

- Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu:
UAIC Participation at AVE 2007.
395-403

- Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo:
UNED at Answer Validation Exercise 2007.
404-409

Question Answering on Speech Transcription (QAST)
Part IV:
Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
- Michael Grubinger, Paul Clough, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller:
Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2007 Photographic Retrieval Task.
433-444

- Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Ville Viitaniemi, András A. Benczúr, Mátyás Brendel, Bálint Daróczy, Hugo Jair Escalante Balderas, Theo Gevers, Carlos Arturo Hernández-Gracidas, Steven C. H. Hoi, Jorma Laaksonen, Mingjing Li, Heidy Marisol Marín Castro, Hermann Ney, Xiaoguang Rui, Nicu Sebe, Julian Stöttinger, Lei Wu:
Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 Object Retrieval Task.
445-471

- Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Eugene Kim, William R. Hersh:
Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2007 Medical Retrieval and Medical Annotation Tasks.
472-491

ImageCLEFphoto
- Tobias Gass, Tobias Weyand, Thomas Deselaers, Hermann Ney:
FIRE in ImageCLEF 2007: Support Vector Machines and Logistic Models to Fuse Image Descriptors for Photo Retrieval.
492-499

- Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, José Carlos González Cristóbal:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFphoto 2007: Evaluation of Merging Strategies for Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval.
500-503

- Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
Using an Image-Text Parallel Corpus and the Web for Query Expansion in Cross-Language Image Retrieval.
504-511

- Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
SINAI System: Combining IR Systems at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007.
512-517

- András A. Benczúr, István Bíró, Mátyás Brendel, Károly Csalogány, Bálint Daróczy, Dávid Siklósi:
Multimodal Retrieval by Text-Segment Biclustering.
518-521

- Sergio Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Elisa Noguera:
Analysing an Approach to Information Retrieval of Visual Descriptions with IR-n, a System Based on Passages.
522-529

- Anni Järvelin, Peter Wilkins, Tomasz Adamek, Eija Airio, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Eero Sormunen:
DCU and UTA at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007.
530-537

- Steven C. H. Hoi:
Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval: An Empirical Study at ImageCLEF2007.
538-545

- Hugo Jair Escalante, Carlos A. Hernández, Aurelio López-López, Heidy Marin-Castro, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Eduardo F. Morales, Luis Enrique Sucar, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
Towards Annotation-Based Query and Document Expansion for Image Retrieval.
546-553

- Florence Tushabe, Michael H. F. Wilkinson:
Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Combined 2D Attribute Pattern Spectra.
554-561

- Osama El Demerdash, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler:
Text-Based Clustering of the ImageCLEFphoto Collection for Augmenting the Retrieved Results.
562-568

- Stéphane Clinchant, Jean-Michel Renders, Gabriela Csurka:
Trans-Media Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Methods in Multimedia Retrieval.
569-576

ImageCLEFmed
- Tatiana Tommasi, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo:
Cue Integration for Medical Image Annotation.
577-584

- Loïc Maisonnasse, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Pierre Chevallet:
Multiplying Concept Sources for Graph Modeling.
585-592

- Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Carlos González Cristóbal:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFmed 2007: Merging Textual and Visual Strategies to Improve Medical Image Retrieval.
593-596

- Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFanot 2007: Machine Learning Experiments on Medical Image Annotation.
597-600

- Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Integrating MeSH Ontology to Improve Medical Information Retrieval.
601-606

- Michael Springmann, Heiko Schuldt:
Speeding Up IDM without Degradation of Retrieval Quality.
607-614

- Juan C. Caicedo, Fabio A. González, Eduardo Romero:
Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval Using Low-Level Visual Features and Modality Identification.
615-622

- Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, William R. Hersh:
Medical Image Retrieval and Automatic Annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2007.
623-630

- Diem Thi Hoang Le, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim:
Using Bayesian Network for Conceptual Indexing: Application to Medical Document Indexing with UMLS Metathesaurus.
631-636

- Mark Oliver Güld, Thomas Martin Deserno:
Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2007 Medical Automatic Annotation Task Using Global Image Features.
637-640

- Miguel E. Ruiz, Aurélie Névéol:
Evaluation of Automatically Assigned MeSH Terms for Retrieval of Medical Images.
641-648

ImageCLEF photo and med
Part V:
Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR)
- Pavel Pecina, Petra Hoffmannová, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ying Zhang, Douglas W. Oard:
Overview of the CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track.
674-686

- Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak:
A Dirichlet-Smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech.
687-694

- Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen:
Model Fusion Experiments for the CLSR Task at CLEF 2007.
695-702

- Ying Zhang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang:
Dublin City University at CLEF 2007: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Experiments.
703-711

- Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Jan Vavruska:
What Can and Cannot Be Found in Czech Spontaneous Speech Using Document-Oriented IR Methods - UWB at CLEF 2007 CL-SR Track.
712-718

- Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Using Information Gain to Filter Information in CLEF CL-SR Track.
719-724

Part VI:
Multilingual Web Retrieval (WebCLEF)
Part VII:
Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
- Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker, Xing Xie:
GeoCLEF 2007: The CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview.
745-772

- Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf:
Inferring Location Names for Geographic Information Retrieval.
773-780

- Rocio Guillén:
GeoParsing Web Queries.
781-785

- Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo:
MIRACLE at GeoCLEF Query Parsing 2007: Extraction and Classification of Geographical Information.
786-793

- Geoffrey Andogah, Gosse Bouma:
Relevance Measures Using Geographic Scopes and Types.
794-801

- Nuno Cardoso, David Cruz, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Mário J. Silva:
Using Geographic Signatures as Query and Document Scopes in Geographic IR.
802-810

- Ray R. Larson:
Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2007: Retesting Text Retrieval Baselines.
811-814

- Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso:
On the Relative Importance of Toponyms in GeoCLEF.
815-822

- José M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel García Vega, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Filtering for Improving the Geographic Information Search.
823-829

- Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez:
TALP at GeoCLEF 2007: Results of a Geographical Knowledge Filtering Approach with Terrier.
830-833

- Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez:
TALP at GeoQuery 2007: Linguistic and Geographical Analysis for Query Parsing.
834-837

- Mirna Adriani, Nasikhin:
Applying Geo-feedback to Geographic Information Retrieval.
838-841

- Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang, Wei-Ying Ma:
Exploring LDA-Based Document Model for Geographic Information Retrieval.
842-849

- Ralph Kölle, Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker:
Mono-and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments with Spatial Restrictions at GeoCLEF 2007.
850-855

- Simon E. Overell, João Magalhães, Stefan M. Rüger:
GIR Experiments with Forostar.
856-863

Part VIII:
CLEF in Other Evaluations
CLEF at MorphoChallenge
CLEF at SemEval 2007
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