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CLEF 2006: Alicante, Spain
- Carol Peters, Paul D. Clough, Fredric C. Gey, Jussi Karlgren, Bernardo Magnini, Douglas W. Oard, Maarten de Rijke, Maximilian Stempfhuber:
Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval, 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4730, Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-74998-1
Introduction
- Carol Peters:
What Happened in CLEF 2006. 1-10 - Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro:
Scientific Data of an Evaluation Campaign: Do We Properly Deal with Them? 11-20
Part I: Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)
- Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters:
CLEF 2006: Ad Hoc Track Overview. 21-34
Cross-Language
- Prasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma:
Hindi, Telugu, Oromo, English CLIR Evaluation. 35-42 - Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker:
Amharic-English Information Retrieval. 43-50 - Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Bruno Martins:
The University of Lisbon at CLEF 2006 Ad-Hoc Task. 51-56 - Herika Hayurani, Syandra Sari, Mirna Adriani:
Query and Document Translation for English-Indonesian Cross Language IR. 57-61
Monolingual
- Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis:
Passage Retrieval vs. Document Retrieval in the CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Monolingual Tasks with the IR-n System. 62-65 - Marco Gonzalez, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima:
The PUCRS NLP-Group Participation in CLEF2006: Information Retrieval Based on Linguistic Resources. 66-73 - João Marcelo Azevedo Arcoverde, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes:
NLP-Driven Constructive Learning for Filtering an IR Document Stream. 74-82 - Annabelle Mercier, Michel Beigbeder:
ENSM-SE at CLEF 2006 : Fuzzy Proxmity Method with an Adhoc Influence Function. 83-90 - Viviane Moreira Orengo, Luciana S. Buriol, Alexandre Ramos Coelho:
A Study on the Use of Stemming for Monolingual Ad-Hoc Portuguese Information Retrieval. 91-98 - Péter Halácsy, Viktor Trón:
Benefits of Resource-Based Stemming in Hungarian Information Retrieval. 99-106 - Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Kalyankumar Datta:
Statistical vs. Rule-Based Stemming for Monolingual French Retrieval. 107-110
Robust and More
- Jesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait:
A First Approach to CLIR Using Character N -Grams Alignment. 111-118 - Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
SINAI at CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Robust Multilingual Track: Query Expansion Using the Google Search Engine. 119-126 - Thomas Mandl, René Hackl, Christa Womser-Hacker:
Robust Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments with French and English at the University of Hildesheim. 127-128 - Stephen Tomlinson:
Comparing the Robustness of Expansion Techniques and Retrieval Measures. 129-136 - Jacques Savoy, Samir Abdou:
Experiments with Monolingual, Bilingual, and Robust Retrieval. 137-144 - Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Carlos G. Figuerola:
Local Query Expansion Using Terms Windows for Robust Retrieval. 145-152 - Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones:
Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Robust Cross Language Track. 153-156 - Paul McNamee:
JHU/APL Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2006. 157-162
Part II: Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific)
- Maximilian Stempfhuber, Stefan Baerisch:
The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2006: Overview of Approaches, Results and Assessment. 163-169 - Johannes Leveling:
Reranking Documents with Antagonistic Terms. 170-173 - Ray R. Larson:
Domain Specific Retrieval: Back to Basics. 174-177 - Jens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl:
Monolingual Retrieval Experiments with a Domain-Specific Document Corpus at the Chemnitz University of Technology. 178-185
Part III: Interactive Cross-Langauge Information Retrieval (i-CLEF)
- Jussi Karlgren, Julio Gonzalo, Paul D. Clough:
iCLEF 2006 Overview: Searching the Flickr WWW Photo-Sharing Repository. 186-194 - Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Fernando López-Ostenero, Víctor Peinado:
Are Users Willing to Search Cross-Language? An Experiment with the Flickr Image Sharing Repository. 195-204 - Paul D. Clough, Azzah Al-Maskari, Kareem Darwish:
Providing Multilingual Access to FLICKR for Arabic Users. 205-216 - Jussi Karlgren, Fredrik Olsson:
Trusting the Results in Cross-Lingual Keyword-Based Image Retrieval. 217-222
Part IV: Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)
- Bernardo Magnini, Danilo Giampiccolo, Pamela Forner, Christelle Ayache, Valentin Jijkoun, Petya Osenova, Anselmo Peñas, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe:
Overview of the CLEF 2006 Multilingual Question Answering Track. 223-256 - Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Valentín Sama, Felisa Verdejo:
Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2006. 257-264 - Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
Overview of the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006. 265-274
Main Task: Mono- and Bilingual QA
- David Tomás, José Luis Vicedo González:
Re-ranking Passages with LSA in a Question Answering System. 275-279 - Emmanuel Desmontils, Christine Jacquin, Laura Monceaux:
Question Types Specification for the Use of Specialized Patterns in Prodicos System. 280-289 - Johan Bos, Malvina Nissim:
Answer Translation: An Alternative Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering. 290-299 - Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto, Daniel Vidal:
Priberam's Question Answering System in a Cross-Language Environment. 300-309 - Mitchell Bowden, Marian Olteanu, Pasin Suriyentrakorn, Jonathan Clark, Dan I. Moldovan:
LCC's PowerAnswer at QA@CLEF 2006. 310-317 - Gosse Bouma, Ismail Fahmi, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann:
Using Syntactic Knowledge for QA. 318-327 - Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann:
A Cross-Lingual German-English Framework for Open-Domain Question Answering. 328-338 - Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, Sophie Nègre:
Cross Lingual Question Answering Using QRISTAL for CLEF 2006. 339-350 - Edward W. D. Whittaker, Josef R. Novak, Pierre Chatain, Paul R. Dixon, Matthias H. Heie, Sadaoki Furui:
CLEF2006 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology. 351-361 - David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang:
Quartz: A Question Answering System for Dutch. 362-371 - Pedro Paulo Balage Filho, Vinícius Rodrigues de Uzêda, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes:
Experiments on Applying a Text Summarization System for Question Answering. 372-376 - Davide Buscaldi, José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis:
N -Gram vs. Keyword-Based Passage Retrieval for Question Answering. 377-384 - Georgiana Puscasu, Adrian Iftene, Ionut Pistol, Diana Trandabat, Dan Tufis, Alin Ceausu, Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion, Iustin Dornescu, Mihai Alex Moruz, Dan Cristea:
Cross-Lingual Romanian to English Question Answering at CLEF 2006. 385-394 - Romaric Besançon, Mehdi Embarek, Olivier Ferret:
Finding Answers in the OEdipe System by Extracting and Applying Linguistic Patterns. 395-404 - Luís Fernando Costa:
Question Answering Beyond CLEF Document Collections. 405-414 - Antonio Juárez-González, Alberto Téllez-Valero, Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
Using Machine Learning and Text Mining in Question Answering. 415-423 - Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Aarón Pancardo-Rodríguez:
Applying Dependency Trees and Term Density for Answer Selection Reinforcement. 424-431 - Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling:
Interpretation and Normalization of Temporal Expressions for Question Answering. 432-439 - Laurent Gillard, Laurianne Sitbon, Eric Blaudez, Patrice Bellot, Marc El-Bèze:
Relevance Measures for Question Answering, The LIA at QA@CLEF-2006. 440-449 - Sergio Ferrández, Pilar López-Moreno, Sandra Roger, Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral, X. Alvarado, Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis:
Monolingual and Cross-Lingual QA Using AliQAn and BRILI Systems for CLEF 2006. 450-453 - Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat, Michael Bagur, Kévin Séjourné:
The Bilingual System MUSCLEF at QA@CLEF 2006. 454-462 - César de Pablo-Sánchez, Ana González-Ledesma, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Maria Teresa Vicente-Díez:
MIRACLE Experiments in QA@CLEF 2006 in Spanish: Main Task, Real-Time QA and Exploratory QA Using Wikipedia (WiQA). 463-472 - Luís Sarmento:
A First Step to Address Biography Generation as an Iterative QA Task. 473-482
Answer Validation Exercise (AVE)
- Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jesús Herrera, Felisa Verdejo:
The Effect of Entity Recognition on Answer Validation. 483-489 - Óscar Ferrández, Rafael M. Terol, Rafael Muñoz, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Manuel Palomar:
A Knowledge-Based Textual Entailment Approach Applied to the AVE Task. 490-493 - Marta Tatu, Brandon Iles, Dan I. Moldovan:
Automatic Answer Validation Using COGEX. 494-501 - Wauter Bosma, Chris Callison-Burch:
Paraphrase Substitution for Recognizing Textual Entailment. 502-509 - Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti:
Experimenting a "General Purpose" Textual Entailment Learner in AVE. 510-517 - Ingo Glöckner:
Answer Validation Through Robust Logical Inference. 518-521 - Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vázquez, Andrés Montoyo:
University of Alicante at QA@CLEF2006: Answer Validation Exercise. 522-525 - Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, Bonaventura Coppola:
Towards Entailment-Based Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2006. 526-536
Question Answering Using Wikipedia (WiQA)
- Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke:
Link-Based vs. Content-Based Retrieval for Question Answering Using Wikipedia. 537-540 - Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Josef Steinberger, Udo Kruschwitz, Mijail Alexandrov Kabadjov, Massimo Poesio:
Identifying Novel Information Using Latent Semantic Analysis in the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006. 541-549 - Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso:
A Bag-of-Words Based Ranking Method for the Wikipedia Question Answering Task. 550-553 - Antonio Toral Ruiz, Georgiana Puscasu, Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo, Rubén Izquierdo-Beviá, Estela Saquete Boró:
University of Alicante at WiQA 2006. 554-560 - Constantin Orasan, Georgiana Puscasu:
A High Precision Information Retrieval Method for WiQA. 561-568 - Diana Santos, Luís Fernando Costa:
QolA: Fostering Collaboration Within QA. 569-578
Part V: Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
Overviews
- Paul D. Clough, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller:
Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 Photographic Retrieval and Object Annotation Tasks. 579-594 - Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Paul D. Clough, Eugene Kim, William R. Hersh:
Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2006 Medical Retrieval and Medical Annotation Tasks. 595-608
ImageCLEFphoto
- Ray R. Larson:
Text Retrieval and Blind Feedback for the ImageCLEFphoto Task. 609-612 - José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ana García-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, Paloma Martínez:
Expanding Queries Through Word Sense Disambiguation. 613-616 - Masashi Inoue:
Using Visual Linkages for Multilingual Image Retrieval. 617-624 - Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
Approaches of Using a Word-Image Ontology and an Annotated Image Corpus as Intermedia for Cross-Language Image Retrieval. 625-632 - Kieran McDonald, Gareth J. F. Jones:
Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Experiments for the ImageCLEF Photo Collection Standard Ad Hoc Task. 633-637
ImageCLEFmed
- Henning Müller, Tobias Gass, Antoine Geissbühler:
Image Classification with a Frequency-Based Information Retrieval Scheme for ImageCLEFmed 2006. 638-643 - Lokesh Setia, Alexandra Teynor, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt:
Grayscale Radiograph Annotation Using Local Relational Features. 644-651 - Philipp Daumke, Jan Paetzold, Kornél G. Markó:
MorphoSaurus in ImageCLEF 2006: The Effect of Subwords On Biomedical IR. 652-659 - William R. Hersh, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Jeffery R. Jensen:
Medical Image Retrieval and Automated Annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2006. 660-669 - Filip Florea, Alexandrina Rogozan, Eugen Barbu, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Stéfan Jacques Darmoni:
MedIC at ImageCLEF 2006: Automatic Image Categorization and Annotation Using Combined Visual Representations. 670-677 - Jing Liu, Yang Hu, Mingjing Li, Songde Ma, Wei-Ying Ma:
Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval Using Visual Features. 678-685 - Mark Oliver Güld, Christian Thies, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas Martin Deserno:
Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2006 Medical Automatic Annotation Task. 686-689 - Bo Qiu:
A Refined SVM Applied in Medical Image Annotation. 690-693 - Caroline Lacoste, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Diem Thi Hoang Le, Wei Xiong, Daniel Racoceanu, Roxana Teodorescu, Nicolas Vuillemenot:
Inter-media Concept-Based Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval with UMLS at IPAL. 694-701 - Miguel E. Ruiz:
UB at ImageCLEFmed 2006. 702-705
ImageCLEFphoto and med
- Julien Gobeill, Henning Müller, Patrick Ruch:
Translation by Text Categorisation: Medical Image Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2006. 706-710 - Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, María Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Using Information Gain to Improve the ImageCLEF 2006 Collection. 711-714 - Md Mahmudur Rahman, Varun Sood, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya:
CINDI at ImageCLEF 2006: Image Retrieval & Annotation Tasks for the General Photographic and Medical Image Collections. 715-724 - Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Weyand, Hermann Ney:
Image Retrieval and Annotation Using Maximum Entropy. 725-734 - Nicolas Maillot, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim:
Inter-media Pseudo-relevance Feedback Application to ImageCLEF 2006 Photo Retrieval. 735-738 - Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl:
ImageCLEF 2006 Experiments at the Chemnitz Technical University. 739-743
Part VI: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CLSR)
- Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ryen W. White, Pavel Pecina, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, Izhak Shafran:
Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track. 744-758 - Pavel Ircing, Ludek Müller:
Benefit of Proper Language Processing for Czech Speech Retrieval in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2006. 759-765 - Rafael M. Terol, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Manuel Palomar:
Applying Logic Forms and Statistical Methods to CL-SR Performance. 766-769 - Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Roeland Ordelman, Laurens van der Werff, Franciska de Jong:
XML Information Retrieval from Spoken Word Archives. 770-777 - Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen:
Experiments for the Cross Language Speech Retrieval Task at CLEF 2006. 778-785 - Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard:
CLEF-2006 CL-SR at Maryland: English and Czech. 786-793 - Gareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina:
Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments. 794-802
Part VII: Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)
- Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke:
Overview of WebCLEF 2006. 803-819 - Carlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez:
Improving Web Pages Retrieval Using Combined Fields. 820-825 - David Pinto, Paolo Rosso, Ernesto Jiménez:
A Penalisation-Based Ranking Approach for the Mixed Monolingual Task of WebCLEF 2006. 826-829 - Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke:
Index Combinations and Query Reformulations for Mixed Monolingual Web Retrieval. 830-833 - Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl, Robert Strötgen:
Multilingual Web Retrieval Experiments with Field Specific Indexing Strategies for WebCLEF 2006 at the University of Hildesheim. 834-837 - Franco Rojas López, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, David Pinto:
Vocabulary Reduction and Text Enrichment at WebCLEF. 838-843 - Stephen Tomlinson:
Experiments with the 4 Query Sets of WebCLEF 2006. 844-847 - Syntia Wijaya, Bimo Widhi, Tommy Khoerniawan, Mirna Adriani:
Applying Relevance Feedback for Retrieving Web-Page Retrieval. 848-851
Part VIII: Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
- Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker, Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro:
GeoCLEF 2006: The CLEF 2006 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. 852-876 - José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González Cristóbal, Sara Lana-Serrano, Ángel Martínez-González:
MIRACLE's Ad-Hoc and Geographical IR Approaches for CLEF 2006. 877-880 - Geoffrey Andogah:
GIR Experimentation. 881-888 - Antonio Toral, Óscar Ferrández, Elisa Noguera, Zornitsa Kozareva, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz:
GIR with Geographic Query Expansion. 889-892 - Rocio Guillén:
Monolingual and Bilingual Experiments in GeoCLEF2006. 893-900 - Johannes Leveling, Dirk Veiel:
Experiments on the Exclusion of Metonymic Location Names from GIR. 901-904 - You-Heng Hu, Linlin Ge:
The University of New South Wales at GeoCLEF 2006. 905-912 - Manuel García Vega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, José M. Perea-Ortega:
GEOUJA System. The First Participation of the University of Jaén at GEOCLEF 2006. 913-917 - Manuel García Vega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, José M. Perea-Ortega, Francisco Javier Ariza-López, Óscar Ferrández, Antonio Toral, Zornitsa Kozareva, Elisa Noguera, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso:
R2D2 at GeoCLEF 2006: A Combined Approach. 918-925 - Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang, Wei-Ying Ma:
MSRA Columbus at GeoCLEF 2006. 926-929 - Simon E. Overell, João Magalhães, Stefan M. Rüger:
Forostar: A System for GIR. 930-937