Cross-Language Education and Function (2004)

Workshops

Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images, 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers 82 papers
Working Notes for CLEF 2004 Workshop co-located with the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004 81 papers

Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images, 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

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Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images, 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

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What Happened in CLEF 2004?
Carol Peters

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CLEF 2004: Ad Hoc Track Overview and Results Analysis
Martin Braschler | Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio | Nicola Ferro | Carol Peters

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Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval
Jacques Savoy | Pierre-Yves Berger

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Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Deviation from Randomness
Jean-Pierre Chevallet | Gilles Sérasset

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Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT at CLEF 2004
Paul McNamee | James Mayfield

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Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio | Nicola Ferro | Nicola Orio

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Application of Variable Length N-Gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval
Daniel Gayo-Avello | Darío Álvarez Gutiérrez | José Gayo-Avello

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Integrating New Languages in a Multilingual Search System Based on a Deep Linguistic Analysis
Romaric Besançon | Olivier Ferret | Christian Fluhr

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IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages
Fernando Llopis | Rafael Muñoz | Rafael M. Terol | Elisa Noguera

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Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF
David Nadeau | Mario Jarmasz | Caroline Barrière | George F. Foster | Claude St. Jacques

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Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004
Isabelle Moulinier | Ken Williams

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Effective Translation, Tokenization and Combination for Cross-Lingual Retrieval
Jaap Kamps | Sisay Fissaha Adafre | Maarten de Rijke

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Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2004
Kazuaki Kishida | Noriko Kando | Kuang-hua Chen

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Dictionary-Based Amharic - English Information Retrieval
Atelach Alemu Argaw | Lars Asker | Rickard Cöster | Jussi Karlgren

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Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation
Jussi Karlgren | Magnus Sahlgren | Timo Järvinen | Rickard Cöster

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SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with a Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm
Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago | Miguel Angel García Cumbreras | Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano | Luis Alfonso Ureña López

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Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim
René Hackl | Thomas Mandl | Christa Womser-Hacker

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University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-Language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval
Gina-Anne Levow | Irina Matveeva

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UB at CLEF2004: Cross Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical Language Models
Miguel E. Ruiz | Munirathnam Srikanth

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MIRACLE's Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information Retrieval
José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo | José Carlos González | José Luis Martínez-Fernández | Julio Villena

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Searching a Russian Document Collection Using English, Chinese and Japanese Queries
Fredric C. Gey

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Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer^ at CLEF 2004
Stephen Tomlinson

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Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval
Jacques Savoy

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The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004
Nuno Cardoso | Mário J. Silva | Miguel Costa

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The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier
Christina Lioma | Ben He | Vassilis Plachouras | Iadh Ounis

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

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University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task
Johannes Leveling | Sven Hartrumpf

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IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task
Mustapha Baziz | Mohand Boughanem | Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

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Ricoh at CLEF 2004
Yuichi Kojima

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GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval
Vivien Petras

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iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Pilot Experiments in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Julio Gonzalo | Douglas W. Oard

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Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages Versus Searching Documents
Fernando López-Ostenero | Julio Gonzalo | Víctor Peinado | Felisa Verdejo

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Cooperation, Bookmarking, and Thesaurus in Interactive Bilingual Question Answering
Preben Hansen | Jussi Karlgren | Magnus Sahlgren

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Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Daqing He | Jianqiang Wang | Jun Luo | Douglas W. Oard

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Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval
Carlos G. Figuerola | Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez | José Luis Alonso Berrocal | Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana

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A Question Answering System for French
Laura Perret

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Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2004
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe | Igal Gabbay | Michael Mulcahy | Aoife O'Gorman

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Experiments on Robust NL Question Interpretation and Multi-layered Document Annotation for a Cross-Language Question/Answering System
Günter Neumann | Bogdan Sacaleanu

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The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004
Hristo Tanev | Matteo Negri | Bernardo Magnini | Milen Kouylekov

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Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources
Petya Osenova | Alexander Simov | Kiril Ivanov Simov | Hristo Tanev | Milen Kouylekov

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Finnish as Source Language in Bilingual Question Answering
Lili Aunimo | Reeta Kuuskoski | Juha Makkonen

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miraQA: Experiments with Learning Answer Context Patterns from the Web
César de Pablo-Sánchez | José Luis Martínez-Fernández | Paloma Martínez | Julio Villena

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Question Answering for Spanish Supported by Lexical Context Annotation
Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño | Thamar Solorio | Manuel Montes-y-Gómez | Aurelio López-López | Luis Villaseñor Pineda

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Question Answering Using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching
Sven Hartrumpf

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First Evaluation of Esfinge - A Question Answering System for Portuguese
Luís Fernando Costa

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University of Évora in QA@CLEF-2004
Paulo Quaresma | Luis Quintano | Irene Rodrigues | José Saias | Pedro D. Salgueiro

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COLE Experiments at QA@CLEF 2004 Spanish Monolingual Track
Enrique Méndez Díaz | Jesús Vilares Ferro | David Cabrero Souto

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Does English Help Question Answering in Spanish?
José Luis Vicedo González | Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda | Rubén Izquierdo | Fernando Llopis

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ILC-UniPI Italian QA
Francesca Bertagna | Luminita Chiran | Maria Simi

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Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004
Jesús Herrera | Anselmo Peñas | Felisa Verdejo

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Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QA
Estela Saquete | José Luis Vicedo González | Patricio Martínez-Barco | Rafael Muñoz | Fernando Llopis

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The CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track
Paul D. Clough | Henning Müller | Mark Sanderson

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Caption and Query Translation for Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Paul D. Clough

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Pattern-Based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004
Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda | José Luis Vicedo González | Rubén Izquierdo

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How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection Using GIFT
Henning Müller | Antoine Geissbühler

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UNED at ImageCLEF 2004: Detecting Named Entities and Noun Phrases for Automatic Query Expansion and Structuring
Víctor Peinado | Javier Artiles | Fernando López-Ostenero | Julio Gonzalo | Felisa Verdejo

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From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image Retrieval
Wen-Cheng Lin | Yih-Chen Chang | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval
Carmen Alvarez | Ahmed Id Oumohmed | Max Mignotte | Jian-Yun Nie

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FIRE - Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation
Thomas Deselaers | Daniel Keysers | Hermann Ney

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MIRACLE Approach to ImageCLEF 2004: Merging Textual and Content-Based Image Retrieval
José Luis Martínez-Fernández | Ana García-Serrano | Julio Villena | V. Méndez-Sáenz

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Cross-Media Feedback Strategies: Merging Text and Image Information to Improve Image Retrieval
Romaric Besançon | Patrick Hède | Pierre-Alain Moëllic | Christian Fluhr

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ImageCLEF 2004: Combining Image and Multi-lingual Search for Medical Image Retrieval
Henning Müller | Antoine Geissbühler | Patrick Ruch

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Multi-modal Information Retrieval Using FINT
Menno van Zaanen | Guido de Croon

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Medical Image Retrieval Using Texture, Locality and Colour
Peter Howarth | Alexei Yavlinsky | Daniel Heesch | Stefan M. Rüger

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SMIRE: Similar Medical Image Retrieval Engine
Pei-Cheng Cheng | Been-Chian Chien | Hao-Ren Ke | Wei-Pang Yang

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A Probabilistic Approach to Medical Image Retrieval
Koen Lubbers | Arjen P. de Vries | Theo W. C. Huibers | Paul E. van der Vet

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UB at CLEF2004 Cross Language Medical Image Retrieval
Miguel E. Ruiz | Munirathnam Srikanth

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Content-Based Queries on the CasImage Database Within the IRMA Framework
Christian Thies | Mark Oliver Güld | Benedikt Fischer | Thomas Martin Lehmann

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Comparison and Combination of Textual and Visual Features for Interactive Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Pei-Cheng Cheng | Jen-Yuan Yeh | Hao-Ren Ke | Been-Chian Chien | Wei-Pang Yang

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MSU at ImageCLEF: Cross Language and Interactive Image Retrieval
Vineet Bansal | Chen Zhang | Joyce Y. Chai | Rong Jin

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CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
Marcello Federico | Nicola Bertoldi | Gina-Anne Levow | Gareth J. F. Jones

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The Key to the First CLEF with Portuguese: Topics, Questions and Answers in CHAVE
Diana Santos | Paulo Rocha

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How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?
Thomas Mandl | Christa Womser-Hacker

Working Notes for CLEF 2004 Workshop co-located with the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004

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Working Notes for CLEF 2004 Workshop co-located with the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004

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A Probabilistic Approach to the Medical Retrieval Task
Koen Lubbers | Arjen P. de Vries | Theo W. C. Huibers | Paul E. van der Vet

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Application of Variable Length N-gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval
Daniel Gayo-Avello | Darío Álvarez Gutiérrez | José Gayo-Avello

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Bookmarking, Thesaurus, and Cooperation in Bilingual Question Answering
Jussi Karlgren | Preben Hansen | Magnus Sahlgren

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Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources
Petya Osenova | Alexander Simov | Kiril Ivanov Simov | Hristo Tanev | Milen Kouylekov

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CHAVE: Topics and Questions on the Portuguese Participation in CLEF
Diana Santos | Paulo Rocha

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CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
Marcello Federico | Nicola Bertoldi | Gina-Anne Levow | Gareth J. F. Jones

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COLE at CLEF 2004: Rapid Prototyping of a QA System for Spanish
Enrique Méndez Díaz | Jesús Vilares Ferro | David Cabrero Souto

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Caption vs. Query Translation for Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Paul D. Clough

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Content-based Queries on the Casimage Database with the IRMA framework: A Field Report
Christian Thies | Mark Oliver Güld | Benedikt Fischer | Thomas Martin Lehmann

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Cross-Language French-English Question Answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2004
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe | Igal Gabbay | Michael Mulcahy | Aoife O'Gorman

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Cross-Language Question Answering at the University of Helsinki
Lili Aunimo | Reeta Kuuskoski | Juha Makkonen

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Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT for CLEF 2004
Paul McNamee | James Mayfield

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Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval
Jacques Savoy

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Dictionary-based Amharic - English Information Retrieval
Atelach Alemu Argaw | Lars Asker | Rickard Cöster | Jussi Karlgren

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Does English help Question Answering in Spanish?
José Luis Vicedo González | Maximiliano Saiz | Rubén Izquierdo

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Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation
Jussi Karlgren | Magnus Sahlgren | Timo Järvinen | Rickard Cöster

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Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QA
Estela Saquete | José Luis Vicedo González | Patricio Martínez-Barco | Rafael Muñoz

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Experiments on Robust NL Question Interpretation and Multi-layered Document Annotation for a Cross-Language Question/Answering-System
Günter Neumann | Bogdan Sacaleanu

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FINT: Find Images aNd Text
Menno van Zaanen | Guido de Croon

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FIRE - Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation
Thomas Deselaers | Daniel Keysers | Hermann Ney

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Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2004
Stephen Tomlinson

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First Evaluation of Esfinge - a Question Answering System for Portuguese
Luís Costa

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From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image Retrieval
Wen-Cheng Lin | Yih-Chen Chang | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval
Vivien Petras

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How do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?
Thomas Mandl | Christa Womser-Hacker

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IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages
Fernando Llopis | Rafael Muñoz | Rafael M. Terol | Elisa Noguera

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IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task
Mustapha Baziz | Mohand Boughanem | Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

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Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages versus Searching Documents
Fernando López-Ostenero | Julio Gonzalo | Víctor Peinado | Felisa Verdejo

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Introduction
Carol Peters

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Issues When Building CLIR Applications: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 Workshop
Gregor Thurmair

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KIDS's Evaluation in the Medical Image Retrieval Task at ImageCLEF 2004
Pei-Cheng Cheng | Been-Chian Chien | Hao-Ren Ke | Wei-Pang Yang

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LIC2M Experiments at ImageCLEF 2004
Romaric Besançon | Patrick Hède | Pierre-Alain Moëllic | Christian Fluhr

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LIC2M Experiments at CLEF 2004
Romaric Besançon | Olivier Ferret | Christian Fluhr

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Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim
René Hackl | Thomas Mandl | Christa Womser-Hacker

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NCTU-ISU's Evaluation for the User-Centered Search Task at ImageCLEF 2004
Pei-Cheng Cheng | Jen-Yuan Yeh | Been-Chian Chien | Hao-Ren Ke | Wei-Pang Yang

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NTCIR-4: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 Workshop
Noriko Kando

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Pattern-based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004
Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda | José Luis Vicedo González | Rubén Izquierdo

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QA at ILC-UniPI: Description of the Prototype
Francesca Bertagna | Luminita Chiran | Maria Simi

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Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004
Jesús Herrera | Anselmo Peñas | Felisa Verdejo

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Question Answering System for the French Language
Laura Perrot

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Question Answering using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching
Sven Hartrumpf

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REINA at iCLEF 2004
Carlos G. Figuerola | Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez | José Luis Alonso Berrocal | Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana

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Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004
Isabelle Moulinier | Ken Williams

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Report on the CLEF Experiment: Combining Image and Multilingual Search for Medical Image Retrieval
Henning Müller | Antoine Geissbühler | Patrick Ruch

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Report on the ImageCLEF Experiment: How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection using GIFT
Henning Müller | Antoine Geissbühler | Patrick Ruch

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Ricoh at CLEF 2004
Yuichi Kojima

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SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm
Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago | Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras | Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano | Luis Alfonso Ureña López

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Searching a Russian Document Collection using English, Chinese and Japanese Queries
Fredric C. Gey

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Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval
Jacques Savoy | Pierre-Yves Berger

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The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (ImageCLEF) 2004
Paul D. Clough | Mark Sanderson | Henning Müller

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The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004
Hristo Tanev | Matteo Negri | Bernardo Magnini | Milen Kouylekov

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The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2004
Sisay Fissaha Adafre | Willem Robert van Hage | Jaap Kamps | Gustavo Lacerda de Melo | Maarten de Rijke

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The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier
Christina Lioma | Ben He | Vassilis Plachouras | Iadh Ounis

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The University of Padua at CLEF 2004: Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio | Nicola Ferro | Nicola Orio

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The University of Évora approach to QA@CLEF-2004
Paulo Quaresma | Luis Quintano | Irene Rodrigues | José Saias | Pedro D. Salgueiro

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The Use of Lexical Context in Question Answering for Spanish
Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño | Thamar Solorio | Manuel Montes-y-Gómez | Aurelio López-López | Luis Villaseñor Pineda

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The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004
Nuno Cardoso | Mário J. Silva | Miguel Costa

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Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval
Carmen Alvarez | Ahmed Id Oumohmed | Max Mignotte | Jian-Yun Nie

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Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Trial at CLEF 2004
Kazuaki Kishida | Noriko Kando | Kuang-hua Chen

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UB at CLEF2004: Part 1 - Monolingual and Multilingual Tasks
Miguel E. Ruiz | Munirathnam Srikanth

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UB at CLEF2004: Part 2 - Cross Language Medical Image Retrieval
Miguel E. Ruiz | Munirathnam Srikanth

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UNED@ImageCLEF 2004: Using Image Captions Structure and Noun Phrase Based Query Expansion for Cross-Language Image Caption Retrieval
Víctor Peinado | Javier Artiles | Fernando López-Ostenero | Julio Gonzalo | Felisa Verdejo

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University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval
Gina-Anne Levow | Irina Matveeva

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University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task
Johannes Leveling | Sven Hartrumpf

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Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF
David Nadeau | Mario Jarmasz | Caroline Barrière | George F. Foster | Claude St. Jacques

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Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Derivation from Randomness: X-IOTA IR System used for CLIPS Mono & Bilingual Experiments for CLEF 2004
Gilles Sérasset | Jean-Pierre Chevallet

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Visual Features for Content-based Medical Image Retrieval
Peter Howarth | Alexei Yavlinsky | Daniel Heesch | Stefan M. Rüger

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iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Julio Gonzalo | Douglas W. Oard

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iCLEF 2004 at Maryland: Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Daqing He | Jianqiang Wang | Jun Luo | Douglas W. Oard