Shared Tasks (2002)

Content

CLEF
- Mono- and Cross-Language IR for Scientific Collections
- Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval
- Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval
- Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation
TREC
- Filtering
- Interactive
- Novelty
- Question Answering
- Video
- Web

CLEF: Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Participant papers:

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The CLEF 2002 Interactive Track
Douglas W. Oard | Julio Gonzalo

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Cross-Language Relevance Assessment and Task Context
Jussi Karlgren | Preben Hansen

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iCLEF at Universities of Alicante and Jaen
Fernando Llopis | Antonio Ferrández | José Luis Vicedo González | Manuel C. Díaz | Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago

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Comparing User-assisted and Automatic Query Translation
Daqing He | Jianqiang Wang | Douglas W. Oard | Michael Nossal

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Interactive Cross-Language Searching: Phrases are Better than Terms for Query Formulation and Refinement
Fernando López-Ostenero | Julio Gonzalo | Anselmo Peñas | Felisa Verdejo

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Is Query Translation a Distinct Task from Search?
Daniela Petrelli | George Demetriou | Patrick Herring | Micheline Beaulieu | Mark Sanderson

CLEF: Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval

Participant papers:

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Cross-language Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2002
Aitao Chen

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Océ at CLEF 2002
Roel Brand | Marvin Brünner

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Report on CLEF-2002 Experiments: Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence
Jacques Savoy

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ITC-irst at CLEF 2002: Using N-best Query Translations for CLIR
Nicola Bertoldi | Marcello Federico

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UTACLIR @ CLEF 2002: Towards a Unified Translation Process Model
Eija Airio | Heikki Keskustalo | Turid Hedlund | Ari Pirkola

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Merging Different Languages in a Single Document Collection
Jian-Yun Nie | Fuman Jin

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EXETER at CLEF 2002: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual and Bilingual Retrieval
Adenike M. Lam-Adesina | Gareth J. F. Jones

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The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2002
Christof Monz | Jaap Kamps | Maarten de Rijke

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Portuguese-English Experiments using Latent Semantic Indexing
Viviane Moreira Orengo | Christian R. Huyck

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Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments for CLEF 2002
Isabelle Moulinier | Hugo Molina-Salgado

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Merging Mechanisms in Multilingual Information Retrieval
Wen-Cheng Lin | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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SINAI on CLEF 2002: Experimenting with Merging Strategies
Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago | Maite Martín-Valdivia | Luis Alfonso Ureña López

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Cross-language Retrieval at Twente and TNO
Dennis Reidsma | Djoerd Hiemstra | Franciska de Jong | Wessel Kraaij

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Resolving Translation Ambiguity using Monolingual Corpora. A Report on Clairvoyance CLEF-2002 Experiments
Yan Qu | Gregory Grefenstette | David A. Evans

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Eurospider at CLEF 2002
Martin Braschler | Anne Göhring | Peter Schäuble

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Scalable Multilingual Information Access
Paul McNamee | James Mayfield

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Some Experiments with the Dutch Collection
Arjen P. de Vries | Anne Diekema

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Italian Monolingual Information Retrieval with PROSIT
Gianni Amati | Claudio Carpineto | Giovanni Romano

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COLE Experiments at CLEF 2002: Spanish Monolingual Track
Jesús Vilares | Miguel A. Alonso | Francisco J. Ribadas | Manuel Vilares Ferro

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University of Padua at CLEF 2002: Experiments to Evaluate a Statistical Stemming Algorithm
Michela Bacchin | Nicola Ferro | Massimo Melucci

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IR-n System at CLEF-2002
Fernando Llopis | José Luis Vicedo González | Antonio Ferrández

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Term Expansion using Stemming and Thesauri in Spanish
Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez | Carlos G. Figuerola | José Luis Alonso Berrocal | Emilio Rodríguez

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Information Retrieval based on Explicit Knowledge Representation
Elzbieta Dura | Marek Drejak

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PLIERS and Snowball at CLEF 2002
Andrew MacFarlane

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MediaLab @ CLEF-2002: Comparing Search Strategies
Dennis Reidsma | Peter van der Weerd

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Experiments in 8 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF2002
Stephen Tomlinson

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Experiments with a Chunker and Lucene
Gil Francopoulo

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SICS at CLEF 2002: Automatic Query Expansion using Random Indexing
Magnus Sahlgren | Jussi Karlgren | Rickard Cöster | Timo Järvinen

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IMBIT: Resources and Search Strategy
Claudia Wortmann

CLEF: Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

Participant papers:

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CLIR at NTCIR Workshop 3
Noriko Kando

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Linguistic and Statistical Analysis of the CLEF Topics
Thomas Mandl | Christa Womser-Hacker

TREC: Filtering

Participant papers:

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TREC 2002 Cross-lingual Retrieval at BBN
Alexander M. Fraser | Jinxi Xu | Ralph M. Weischedel

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Experiments in Named Page Finding and Arabic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at TREC 2002
Stephen Tomlinson

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Arabic Information Retrieval at IBM
Martin Franz | J. Scott McCarley

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JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic Retrieval
Paul McNamee | Christine D. Piatko | James Mayfield

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The TREC 2002 Arabic/English CLIR Track
Douglas W. Oard | Fredric C. Gey

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Building an Arabic Stemmer for Information Retrieval
Aitao Chen | Fredric C. Gey

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The TREC 2002 Arabic/English CLIR Track
Douglas W. Oard | Fredric C. Gey

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CLIR Experiments at Maryland for TREC 2002: Evidence Combination for Arabic-English Retrieval
Kareem Darwish | Douglas W. Oard

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UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks
Leah S. Larkey | James Allan | Margaret E. Connell | Alvaro Bolivar | Courtney Wade

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Report on the TREC 11 Experiment: Arabic, Named Page and Topic Distillation Searches
Jacques Savoy | Yves Rasolofo

TREC: Interactive

Overview papers:

Participant papers:

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Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding
Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Paul Ogilvie | Yi Zhang | Jamie Callan

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CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in Filtering
Christophe Brouard

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IRIT at TREC 2002: Filtering Track
Mohand Boughanem | Hamid Tebri | Mohamed Tmar

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JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic Retrieval
Paul McNamee | Christine D. Piatko | James Mayfield

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Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering Track
Stephen E. Robertson | Steve Walker | Hugo Zaragoza | Ralf Herbrich

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TREC 11 Experiments at NII: The Effects of Virtual Relevant Documents in Batch Filtering
Kyung-Soon Lee | Kyo Kageura | Akiko N. Aizawa

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TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS
Kui-Lam Kwok | Peter Deng | Norbert Dinstl | M. Chan

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UB at TREC 11: Batch and Adaptive Filtering
Munirathnam Srikanth | Xiaoyun Wu | Rohini K. Srihari

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Incremental Learning for Profile Training in Adaptive Document Filtering
Liang Ma | Qunxiu Chen | Shaoping Ma | Min Zhang | Lianhong Cai

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Incremental Retrieval of Documents Relevant to a Topic
Caroline Lyon | Bob Dickerson | James A. Malcolm

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Novel Results and Some Answers - The University of Iowa TREC 11 Results
David Eichmann | Padmini Srinivasan

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Classifier Stacking and Voting for Text Filtering
Rada Mihalcea

TREC: Novelty

Participant papers:

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TREC 2002 Interactive Track Report
William R. Hersh

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More Statistical Power Needed: The OHSU TREC 2002 Interactive Track Experiments
William R. Hersh | Susan Moy | Dale Kraemer | Lynetta Sacherek | Daniel Olson

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Using Hierarchical Clustering and Summarisation Approaches for Web Retrieval: Glasgow at the TREC 2002 Interactive Track
Richard Osdin | Iadh Ounis | Ryen W. White

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Progress in General-Purpose IR Software
Gregory B. Newby

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Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries
Elaine G. Toms | Luanne Freund | Cara Li

TREC: Question Answering

Overview papers:

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Overview of the TREC 2002 Novelty Track
Donna Harman

Participant papers:

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Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding
Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Paul Ogilvie | Yi Zhang | Jamie Callan

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Experiments in Novelty Detection at Columbia University
Barry Schiffman

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Novelty Track at IRIT-SIG
Taoufiq Dkaki | Josiane Mothe | Jérôme Augé

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Some Similarity Computation Methods in Novelty Detection
Ming-Feng Tsai | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System Description
Hideto Kazawa | Tsutomu Hirao | Hideki Isozaki | Eisaku Maeda

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TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS
Kui-Lam Kwok | Peter Deng | Norbert Dinstl | M. Chan

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A Crude Cut at Query Expansion
Philip Rennert

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The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002
Christof Monz | Jaap Kamps | Maarten de Rijke

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Novel Results and Some Answers - The University of Iowa TREC 11 Results
David Eichmann | Padmini Srinivasan

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UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks
Leah S. Larkey | James Allan | Margaret E. Connell | Alvaro Bolivar | Courtney Wade

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The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks
Hong Qi | Jahna Otterbacher | Adam Winkel | Dragomir R. Radev

TREC: Video

Overview papers:

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Overview of the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Ellen M. Voorhees

Participant papers:

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Question Answering Approach Using a WordNet-based Answer Type Taxonomy
Seung-Hoon Na | In-Su Kang | Sang-Yool Lee | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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TREC 2002 QA at BBN: Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation
Jinxi Xu | Ana Licuanan | Jonathan May | Scott Miller | Ralph M. Weischedel

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Question Answering Using XML-Tagged Documents
Kenneth C. Litkowski

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The QUANTUM Question Answering System at TREC 11
Luc Plamondon | Guy Lapalme | Leila Kosseim

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IBM's Statistical Question Answering System-TREC 11
Abraham Ittycheriah | Salim Roukos

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A Multi-Strategy and Multi-Source Approach to Question Answering
Jennifer Chu-Carroll | John M. Prager | Christopher A. Welty | Krzysztof Czuba | David A. Ferrucci

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Use of Patterns for Detection of Likely Answer Strings: A Systematic Approach
Martin M. Soubbotin | Sergei M. Soubbotin

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Mining Knowledge from Repeated Co-Occurrences: DIOGENE at TREC 2002
Bernardo Magnini | Matteo Negri | Roberto Prevete | Hristo Tanev

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Coupling Named Entity Recognition, Vector-Space Model and Knowledge Bases for TREC 11 Question Answering Track
Patrice Bellot | Eric Crestan | Marc El-Bèze | Laurent Gillard | Claude de Loupy

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Extracting Answers from the Web Using Data Annotation and Knowledge Mining Techniques
Jimmy Lin | Aaron Fernandes | Boris Katz | Gregory Marton | Stefanie Tellex

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A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System Description
Hideto Kazawa | Tsutomu Hirao | Hideki Isozaki | Eisaku Maeda

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The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question Answering
Hui Yang | Tat-Seng Chua

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Web Based Pattern Mining and Matching Approach to Question Answering
Dell Zhang | Wee Sun Lee

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Question Answering Approach Using a WordNet-based Answer Type Taxonomy
Seung-Hoon Na | In-Su Kang | Sang-Yool Lee | Jong-Hyeok Lee

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Web Based Pattern Mining and Matching Approach to Question Answering
Dell Zhang | Wee Sun Lee

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University of Alicante Experiments at TREC 2002
José Luis Vicedo González | Fernando Llopis | Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez

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The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002
Christof Monz | Jaap Kamps | Maarten de Rijke

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Novel Results and Some Answers - The University of Iowa TREC 11 Results
David Eichmann | Padmini Srinivasan

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Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2002
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe

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The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks
Hong Qi | Jahna Otterbacher | Adam Winkel | Dragomir R. Radev

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The QUANTUM Question Answering System at TREC 11
Luc Plamondon | Guy Lapalme | Leila Kosseim

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PiQASso 2002
Giuseppe Attardi | Antonio Cisternino | Francesco Formica | Maria Simi | Alessandro Tommasi

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The University of Sheffield TREC 2002 Q&A System
Mark A. Greenwood | Ian Roberts | Robert J. Gaizauskas

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Natural Language Based Reformulation Resource and Wide Exploitation for Question Answering
Ulf Hermjakob | Abdessamad Echihabi | Daniel Marcu

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The YorkQA Prototype Question Answering System
Marco De Boni | José-Luis Jara-Valencia | Suresh Manandhar

TREC: Web

Participant papers:

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CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in Video Retrieval
Georges Quénot | Daniel Moraru | Laurent Besacier | Philippe Mulhem

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CWI at the TREC 2002 Video Track
Thijs Westerveld | Arjen P. de Vries | Alex van Ballegooij

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Experiments in Named Page Finding and Arabic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at TREC 2002
Stephen Tomlinson

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Semantic Feature Extraction using Mpeg Macro-block Classification
Fabrice Souvannavong | Bernard Mérialdo | Benoit Huet

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Video Searching and Browsing Using Viewfinder
Dan E. Albertson | Javed Mostafa | John Fieber

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Video Retrieval Using Global Features in Keyframes
Marcus Jerome Pickering | Daniel Heesch | Stefan M. Rüger | Robert J. O'Callaghan | David R. Bull

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Experiments in Named Page Finding and Arabic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at TREC 2002
Stephen Tomlinson

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Temporal Multi-Resolution Framework for Shot Boundary Detection and Keyframe Extraction
A. Chandrashekhara | HuaMin Feng | Tat-Seng Chua

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Shot Boundary Detection Using the Moving Query Window
Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi | James A. Thom | Hugh E. Williams

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Automatic Shot Boundary Detection and Classification of Indoor and Outdoor Scenes
Andrea Miene | Thorsten Hermes | George T. Ioannidis | R. Fathi | Otthein Herzog

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Video Retrieval Using Global Features in Keyframes
Marcus Jerome Pickering | Daniel Heesch | Stefan M. Rüger | Robert J. O'Callaghan | David R. Bull

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Video Indexing and Retrieval at UMD
Christian Wolf | David S. Doermann | Mika Rautiainen