Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories : 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005 Revised Selected Papers

Carol Peters; Fredric C. Gey; Julio Gonzalo; Henning Muller; Gareth J. F. Jones; Michael Kluck; Bernardo Magnini; Maarten De Rijke (editors)

ISBN 10: 354045697X / ISBN 13: 9783540456971

Editore: Springer, 2006

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• Titolo: Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories : 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005 Revised Selected Papers
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 354045697X
• ISBN 13: 9783540456971
• Rilegatura: Soft Cover
• Condizione: Good
• Tipo di libro: Ex-Library

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005. The book presents 111 revised papers together with an introduction. Topical sections include multilingual textual document retrieval, cross-language and more, monolingual experiments, domain-specific information retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language speech retrieval, multilingual Web track, cross-language geographical retrieval, and evaluation issues.

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What Happened in CLEF 2005.- What Happened in CLEF 2005.- I. Multilingual Textual Document Retrival (Ad Hoc).- CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc Track Overview.- Cross-Language and More.- Ad-Hoc Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim.- MIRACLE at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2005: Merging and Combining Without Using a Single Approach.- The XLDB Group at the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Task.- Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2005.- Using the X-IOTA System in Mono- and Bilingual Experiments at CLEF 2005.- Bilingual and Multilingual Experiments with the IR-n System.- Dictionary-Based Amharic-French Information Retrieval.- A Hybrid Approach to Query and Document Translation Using a Pivot Language for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Conceptual Indexing for Multilingual Information Retrieval.- SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-on and Multi-8 Merging-Only Tasks.- CLEF 2005: Multilingual Retrieval by Combining Multiple Multilingual Ranked Lists.- Monolingual, Bilingual, and GIRT Information Retrieval at CLEF-2005.- Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information Retrieval.- The Performance of a Machine Translation-Based English-Indonesian CLIR System.- Exploring New Languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005.- Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-On Merging Experiments.- Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval.- Monolingual Experiments.- Four Stemmers and a Funeral: Stemming in Hungarian at CLEF 2005.- ENSM-SE at CLEF 2005: Using a Fuzzy Proximity Matching Function.- Bulgarian and Hungarian Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2005.- Combining Passages in the Monolingual Task with the IR-n System.- Weighting Query Terms Based on Distributional Statistics.- II. Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific).- Domain-Specific Track CLEF 2005: Overview of Results and Approaches, Remarks on the Assessment Analysis.- A Baseline for NLP in Domain-Specific IR.- Domain-Specific CLIR of English, German and Russian Using Fusion and Subject Metadata for Query Expansion.- Evaluating a Conceptual Indexing Method by Utilizing WordNet.- Domain Specific Mono- and Bilingual English to German Retrieval Experiments with a Social Science Document Corpus.- III. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF).- Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive Track.- Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering.- “How Much Context Do You Need?”: An Experiment About the Context Size in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering.- UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential Answers.- Effect of Connective Functions in Interactive Image Retrieval.- Using Concept Hierarchies in Text-Based Image Retrieval: A User Evaluation.- IV. Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF).- Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering Track.- A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering for English and German.- The ŒDipe System at CLEF-QA 2005.- An XML-Based System for Spanish Question Answering.- A Logic Programming Based Approach to QA@CLEF05 Track.- Extending Knowledge and Deepening Linguistic Processing for the Question Answering System InSicht.- Question Answering for Dutch Using Dependency Relations.- Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-terms.- Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005.- The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF 2005.- Priberam’s Question Answering System for Portuguese.- A Full Data-Driven System for Multiple Language Question Answering.- Experiments on Cross–Linguality and Question–Type Driven Strategy Selection for Open–Domain QA.- QUASAR: The Question Answering System of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.- Towards an Offline XML-Based Strategy for Answering Questions.- AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2005.- 20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) Solving the Riddles at CLEF 2005.- Question Answering Experiments for Finnish and French.- MIRACLE’s Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments with Spanish as a Target Language.- The Role of Lexical Features in Question Answering for Spanish.- Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2005.- Finding Answers to Indonesian Questions from English Documents.- BulQA: Bulgarian–Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005.- The Query Answering System PRODICOS.- V. Cross-Language Retrieval In Image Collections (ImageCLEF).- The CLEF 2005 Cross–Language Image Retrieval Track.- Linguistic Estimation of Topic Difficulty in Cross-Language Image Retrieval.- Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew’s Collection.- A Probabilistic, Text and Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval System.- UNED at ImageCLEF 2005: Automatically Structured Queries with Named Entities over Metadata.- Easing Erroneous Translations in Cross-Language Image Retrieval Using Word Associations.- A Corpus-Based Relevance Feedback Approach to Cross-Language Image Retrieval.- CUHK at ImageCLEF 2005: Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval.- The University of Jaén at ImageCLEF 2005: Adhoc and Medical Tasks.- Data Fusion of Retrieval Results from Different Media: Experiments at ImageCLEF 2005.- Combining Visual Features for Medical Image Retrieval and Annotation.- A Structured Visual Learning Approach Mixed with Ontology Dimensions for Medical Queries.- FIRE in ImageCLEF 2005: Combining Content-Based Image Retrieval with Textual Information Retrieval.- A Clustered Retrieval Approach for Categorizing and Annotating Images.- Manual Query Modification and Data Fusion for Medical Image Retrieval.- Combining Textual and Visual Features for Image Retrieval.- Supervised Machine Learning Based Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2005.- Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images by Combining Global Features.- Combining Textual and Visual Features for Cross-Language Medical Image Retrieval.- The Use of MedGIFT and EasyIR for ImageCLEF 2005.- Retrieving Images Using Cross-Language Text and Image Features.- UB at CLEF 2005: Bilingual CLIR and Medical Image Retrieval Tasks.- VI. Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR).- Overview of the CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track.- Using Various Indexing Schemes and Multiple Translations in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2005.- The University of Alicante at CL-SR Track.- Pitt at CLEF05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document Retrieval.- UNED@CL-SR CLEF 2005: Mixing Different Strategies to Retrieve Automatic Speech Transcriptions.- Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments.- CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion Using Side Collections and Thesauri.- VII. Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF).- Overview of WebCLEF 2005.- EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus.- Web Retrieval Experiments with the EuroGOV Corpus at the University of Hildesheim.- Danish and Greek Web Search Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2005.- Combination Methods for Crosslingual Web Retrieval.- University of Alicante at the CLEF 2005 WebCLEF Track.- MIRACLE at WebCLEF 2005: Combining Web Specific and Linguistic Information.- BUAP-UPV TPIRS: A System for Document Indexing Reduction at WebCLEF.- Web Page Retrieval by Combining Evidence.- UNED at WebCLEF 2005.- Using the Web Information Structure for Retrieving Web Pages.- University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: Experiments in Per-Field Normalisation and Language Specific Stemming.- VIII. Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF).- GeoCLEF: The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview.- MIRACLE at GeoCLEF 2005: First Experiments in Geographical IR.- University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005.- Evaluating Geographic Information Retrieval.- Using the WordNet Ontology in the GeoCLEF Geographical Information Retrieval Task.- The GeoTALP-IR System at GeoCLEF 2005: Experiments Using a QA-Based IR System, Linguistic Analysis, and a Geographical Thesaurus.- CSUSM Experiments in GeoCLEF2005: Monolingual and Bilingual Tasks.- Berkeley at GeoCLEF: Logistic Regression and Fusion for Geographic Information Retrieval.- Using Semantic Networks for Geographic Information Retrieval.- Experiments with Geo-Filtering Predicates for IR.- The XLDB Group at GeoCLEF 2005.- Evaluation Issues.- Portuguese at CLEF 2005.