Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images

1. Part I. Ad Hoc Text Retrieval Tracks

   1. Mainly Cross-Language Experiments

      1. MIRACLE’s Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information Retrieval

         • José M. Goñi-Menoyo, José C. González, J. L. Martínez-Fernández, J. Villena

         Pages 188-199

      2. Searching a Russian Document Collection Using English, Chinese and Japanese Queries

         • Fredric C. Gey

         Pages 200-206

      3. Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval

         • Gareth J. F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike Lam-Adesina, Joachim Wagner

         Pages 207-220

   2. Monolingual Experiments

      1. Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2004

         • Stephen Tomlinson

         Pages 221-232

      2. Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval

         • Jacques Savoy

         Pages 233-244

      3. The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004

         • Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Miguel Costa

         Pages 245-252

      4. The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier

         • Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis

         Pages 253-259

2. Part II. Domain-Specific Document Retrieval

   1. The Domain-Specific Track in CLEF 2004: Overview of the Results and Remarks on the Assessment Process

      • Michael Kluck

      Pages 260-270

   2. University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task

      • Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf

      Pages 271-282

   3. IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task

      • Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

      Pages 283-291

   4. Ricoh at CLEF 2004

      • Yuichi Kojima

      Pages 292-297

   5. GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval

      • Vivien Petras

      Pages 298-309

3. Part III. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

   1. iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Pilot Experiments in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering

      • Julio Gonzalo, Douglas W. Oard

      Pages 310-322

   2. Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages Versus Searching Documents

      • Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo

      Pages 323-333

   3. Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering Through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic Patterns

      • Borja Navarro, Lorenza Moreno, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo, Miguel Ángel Varó

      Pages 334-342

   4. Cooperation, Bookmarking, and Thesaurus in Interactive Bilingual Question Answering

      • Preben Hansen, Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren

      Pages 343-347

   5. Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering

      • Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard

      Pages 348-362

   6. Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval

      • Carlos G. Figuerola, Angel F. Zazo, José L. Alonso Berrocal, Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana

      Pages 363-370

4. Part IV. Multiple Language Question Answering

   1. Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track

      • Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ayache, Gregor Erbach, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke et al.

      Pages 371-391

   2. A Question Answering System for French

      • Laura Perret

      Pages 392-403

The ?fth campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for Eu- pean languages was held from January to September 2004. Participation in the CLEF campaigns has increased each year and CLEF 2004 was no exception: 55 groups submitted results for one or more of the di?erent tracks compared with 42 groups in the previous year. CLEF 2004 also marked a breaking point with respect to previous campaigns. The focus was no longer mainly concentrated on multilingual document retrieval as in previous years but was diversi?ed to include di?erent kinds of text retrieval across languages (e. g. , exact answers in the question-answering track) and retrieval on di?erent kinds of media (i. e. , not just plain text but collections containing image and speech as well). In ad- tion, increasing attention was given to issues that regard system usability and user satisfaction with tasks to measure the e?ectiveness of interactive systems or system components being included in both the cross-language question - swering and image retrieval tasks with the collaboration of the coordinators of the interactive track. The campaign culminated in a two-and-a-half-day workshop held in Bath, UK, 15–17 September, immediately following the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries. The workshop was attended by nearly 100 researchers and s- tem developers.

• DOM
• GIF
• algorithms
• bilingual information retrieval
• cross-language queries
• cross-lingual text retrieval
• image retrieval
• interactive text retrieval systems
• learning
• machine translation
• multilingual information retrieval
• natural language processing
• proving
• spoken document retrieval

• ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

  Carol Peters

• Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Paul Clough

• No Affiliations,  

  Julio Gonzalo

• Centre for Digital Video Processing & School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

  Gareth J. F. Jones

• German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany

  Michael Kluck

• ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy

  Bernardo Magnini

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