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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

Carol Peters, Paul D. Clough, Fredric C. Gey, Jussi Karlgren, Bernardo Magnini, Douglas W. Oard, Maarten de Rijke, Maximilian Stempfhuber (Editors)


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2006.clef_workshop-2006
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2006
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clef_workshop
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Springer
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8
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10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8
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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

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What Happened in CLEF 2006
Carol Peters

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Scientific Data of an Evaluation Campaign: Do We Properly Deal with Them?
Maristella Agosti | Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio | Nicola Ferro

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CLEF 2006: Ad Hoc Track Overview
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio | Nicola Ferro | Thomas Mandl | Carol Peters

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Hindi, Telugu, Oromo, English CLIR Evaluation
Prasad Pingali | Kula Kekeba Tune | Vasudeva Varma

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Amharic-English Information Retrieval
Atelach Alemu Argaw | Lars Asker

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The University of Lisbon at CLEF 2006 Ad-Hoc Task
Nuno Cardoso | Mário J. Silva | Bruno Martins

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Query and Document Translation for English-Indonesian Cross Language IR
Herika Hayurani | Syandra Sari | Mirna Adriani

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Passage Retrieval vs. Document Retrieval in the CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Monolingual Tasks with the IR-n System
Elisa Noguera | Fernando Llopis

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The PUCRS NLP-Group Participation in CLEF2006: Information Retrieval Based on Linguistic Resources
Marco Gonzalez | Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima

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NLP-Driven Constructive Learning for Filtering an IR Document Stream
João Marcelo Azevedo Arcoverde | Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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ENSM-SE at CLEF 2006 : Fuzzy Proxmity Method with an Adhoc Influence Function
Annabelle Mercier | Michel Beigbeder

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A Study on the Use of Stemming for Monolingual Ad-Hoc Portuguese Information Retrieval
Viviane Moreira Orengo | Luciana S. Buriol | Alexandre Ramos Coelho

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Benefits of Resource-Based Stemming in Hungarian Information Retrieval
Péter Halácsy | Viktor Trón

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Statistical vs. Rule-Based Stemming for Monolingual French Retrieval
Prasenjit Majumder | Mandar Mitra | Kalyankumar Datta

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A First Approach to CLIR Using Character N -Grams Alignment
Jesús Vilares | Michael P. Oakes | John Tait

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SINAI at CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Robust Multilingual Track: Query Expansion Using the Google Search Engine
Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago | Arturo Montejo-Ráez | Miguel Angel García Cumbreras | Luis Alfonso Ureña López

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Robust Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments with French and English at the University of Hildesheim
Thomas Mandl | René Hackl | Christa Womser-Hacker

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Comparing the Robustness of Expansion Techniques and Retrieval Measures
Stephen Tomlinson

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Experiments with Monolingual, Bilingual, and Robust Retrieval
Jacques Savoy | Samir Abdou

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Local Query Expansion Using Terms Windows for Robust Retrieval
Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez | José Luis Alonso Berrocal | Carlos G. Figuerola

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Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Robust Cross Language Track
Adenike M. Lam-Adesina | Gareth J. F. Jones

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JHU/APL Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2006
Paul McNamee

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The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2006: Overview of Approaches, Results and Assessment
Maximilian Stempfhuber | Stefan Baerisch

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Reranking Documents with Antagonistic Terms
Johannes Leveling

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Domain Specific Retrieval: Back to Basics
Ray R. Larson

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Monolingual Retrieval Experiments with a Domain-Specific Document Corpus at the Chemnitz University of Technology
Jens Kürsten | Maximilian Eibl

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iCLEF 2006 Overview: Searching the Flickr WWW Photo-Sharing Repository
Jussi Karlgren | Julio Gonzalo | Paul D. Clough

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Are Users Willing to Search Cross-Language? An Experiment with the Flickr Image Sharing Repository
Javier Artiles | Julio Gonzalo | Fernando López-Ostenero | Víctor Peinado

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Providing Multilingual Access to FLICKR for Arabic Users
Paul D. Clough | Azzah Al-Maskari | Kareem Darwish

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Trusting the Results in Cross-Lingual Keyword-Based Image Retrieval
Jussi Karlgren | Fredrik Olsson

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Overview of the CLEF 2006 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Bernardo Magnini | Danilo Giampiccolo | Pamela Forner | Christelle Ayache | Valentin Jijkoun | Petya Osenova | Anselmo Peñas | Paulo Rocha | Bogdan Sacaleanu | Richard F. E. Sutcliffe

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Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2006
Anselmo Peñas | Álvaro Rodrigo | Valentín Sama | Felisa Verdejo

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Overview of the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006
Valentin Jijkoun | Maarten de Rijke

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Re-ranking Passages with LSA in a Question Answering System
David Tomás | José Luis Vicedo González

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Question Types Specification for the Use of Specialized Patterns in Prodicos System
Emmanuel Desmontils | Christine Jacquin | Laura Monceaux

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Answer Translation: An Alternative Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering
Johan Bos | Malvina Nissim

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Priberam's Question Answering System in a Cross-Language Environment
Adán Cassan | Helena Figueira | André F. T. Martins | Afonso Mendes | Pedro Mendes | Cláudia Pinto | Daniel Vidal

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LCC's PowerAnswer at QA@CLEF 2006
Mitchell Bowden | Marian Olteanu | Pasin Suriyentrakorn | Jonathan Clark | Dan I. Moldovan

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Using Syntactic Knowledge for QA
Gosse Bouma | Ismail Fahmi | Jori Mur | Gertjan van Noord | Lonneke van der Plas | Jörg Tiedemann

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A Cross-Lingual German-English Framework for Open-Domain Question Answering
Bogdan Sacaleanu | Günter Neumann

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Cross Lingual Question Answering Using QRISTAL for CLEF 2006
Dominique Laurent | Patrick Séguéla | Sophie Nègre

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CLEF2006 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Edward W. D. Whittaker | Josef R. Novak | Pierre Chatain | Paul R. Dixon | Matthias H. Heie | Sadaoki Furui

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Quartz: A Question Answering System for Dutch
David Ahn | Valentin Jijkoun | Joris van Rantwijk | Maarten de Rijke | Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang

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Experiments on Applying a Text Summarization System for Question Answering
Pedro Paulo Balage Filho | Vinícius Rodrigues de Uzêda | Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo | Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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N -Gram vs. Keyword-Based Passage Retrieval for Question Answering
Davide Buscaldi | José Manuel Gómez Soriano | Paolo Rosso | Emilio Sanchis

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Cross-Lingual Romanian to English Question Answering at CLEF 2006
Georgiana Puscasu | Adrian Iftene | Ionut Pistol | Diana Trandabat | Dan Tufis | Alin Ceausu | Dan Stefanescu | Radu Ion | Iustin Dornescu | Mihai Alex Moruz | Dan Cristea

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Finding Answers in the OEdipe System by Extracting and Applying Linguistic Patterns
Romaric Besançon | Mehdi Embarek | Olivier Ferret

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Question Answering Beyond CLEF Document Collections
Luís Fernando Costa

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Using Machine Learning and Text Mining in Question Answering
Antonio Juárez-González | Alberto Téllez-Valero | Claudia Denicia-Carral | Manuel Montes-y-Gómez | Luis Villaseñor Pineda

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Applying Dependency Trees and Term Density for Answer Selection Reinforcement
Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño | Manuel Montes-y-Gómez | Aurelio López-López | Luis Villaseñor Pineda | Aarón Pancardo-Rodríguez

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Interpretation and Normalization of Temporal Expressions for Question Answering
Sven Hartrumpf | Johannes Leveling

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Relevance Measures for Question Answering, The LIA at QA@CLEF-2006
Laurent Gillard | Laurianne Sitbon | Eric Blaudez | Patrice Bellot | Marc El-Bèze

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Monolingual and Cross-Lingual QA Using AliQAn and BRILI Systems for CLEF 2006
Sergio Ferrández | Pilar López-Moreno | Sandra Roger | Antonio Ferrández | Jesús Peral | X. Alvarado | Elisa Noguera | Fernando Llopis

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The Bilingual System MUSCLEF at QA@CLEF 2006
Brigitte Grau | Anne-Laure Ligozat | Isabelle Robba | Anne Vilnat | Michael Bagur | Kévin Séjourné

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MIRACLE Experiments in QA@CLEF 2006 in Spanish: Main Task, Real-Time QA and Exploratory QA Using Wikipedia (WiQA)
César de Pablo-Sánchez | Ana González-Ledesma | Antonio Moreno-Sandoval | Maria Teresa Vicente-Díez

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A First Step to Address Biography Generation as an Iterative QA Task
Luís Sarmento

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The Effect of Entity Recognition on Answer Validation
Álvaro Rodrigo | Anselmo Peñas | Jesús Herrera | Felisa Verdejo

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A Knowledge-Based Textual Entailment Approach Applied to the AVE Task
Óscar Ferrández | Rafael M. Terol | Rafael Muñoz | Patricio Martínez-Barco | Manuel Palomar

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Automatic Answer Validation Using COGEX
Marta Tatu | Brandon Iles | Dan I. Moldovan

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Paraphrase Substitution for Recognizing Textual Entailment
Wauter Bosma | Chris Callison-Burch

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Experimenting a "General Purpose" Textual Entailment Learner in AVE
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto | Alessandro Moschitti

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Answer Validation Through Robust Logical Inference
Ingo Glöckner

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University of Alicante at QA@CLEF2006: Answer Validation Exercise
Zornitsa Kozareva | Sonia Vázquez | Andrés Montoyo

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Towards Entailment-Based Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2006
Milen Kouylekov | Matteo Negri | Bernardo Magnini | Bonaventura Coppola

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Link-Based vs. Content-Based Retrieval for Question Answering Using Wikipedia
Sisay Fissaha Adafre | Valentin Jijkoun | Maarten de Rijke

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Identifying Novel Information Using Latent Semantic Analysis in the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe | Josef Steinberger | Udo Kruschwitz | Mijail Alexandrov Kabadjov | Massimo Poesio

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A Bag-of-Words Based Ranking Method for the Wikipedia Question Answering Task
Davide Buscaldi | Paolo Rosso

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University of Alicante at WiQA 2006
Antonio Toral Ruiz | Georgiana Puscasu | Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo | Rubén Izquierdo-Beviá | Estela Saquete Boró

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A High Precision Information Retrieval Method for WiQA
Constantin Orasan | Georgiana Puscasu

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QolA: Fostering Collaboration Within QA
Diana Santos | Luís Fernando Costa

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Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 Photographic Retrieval and Object Annotation Tasks
Paul D. Clough | Michael Grubinger | Thomas Deselaers | Allan Hanbury | Henning Müller

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Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2006 Medical Retrieval and Medical Annotation Tasks
Henning Müller | Thomas Deselaers | Thomas Martin Deserno | Paul D. Clough | Eugene Kim | William R. Hersh

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Text Retrieval and Blind Feedback for the ImageCLEFphoto Task
Ray R. Larson

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Expanding Queries Through Word Sense Disambiguation
José Luis Martínez-Fernández | Ana García-Serrano | Julio Villena-Román | Paloma Martínez

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Using Visual Linkages for Multilingual Image Retrieval
Masashi Inoue

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Approaches of Using a Word-Image Ontology and an Annotated Image Corpus as Intermedia for Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Yih-Chen Chang | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Experiments for the ImageCLEF Photo Collection Standard Ad Hoc Task
Kieran McDonald | Gareth J. F. Jones

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Image Classification with a Frequency-Based Information Retrieval Scheme for ImageCLEFmed 2006
Henning Müller | Tobias Gass | Antoine Geissbühler

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Grayscale Radiograph Annotation Using Local Relational Features
Lokesh Setia | Alexandra Teynor | Alaa Halawani | Hans Burkhardt

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MorphoSaurus in ImageCLEF 2006: The Effect of Subwords On Biomedical IR
Philipp Daumke | Jan Paetzold | Kornél G. Markó

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Medical Image Retrieval and Automated Annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2006
William R. Hersh | Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer | Jeffery R. Jensen

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MedIC at ImageCLEF 2006: Automatic Image Categorization and Annotation Using Combined Visual Representations
Filip Florea | Alexandrina Rogozan | Eugen Barbu | Abdelaziz Bensrhair | Stéfan Jacques Darmoni

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Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval Using Visual Features
Jing Liu | Yang Hu | Mingjing Li | Songde Ma | Wei-Ying Ma

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Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2006 Medical Automatic Annotation Task
Mark Oliver Güld | Christian Thies | Benedikt Fischer | Thomas Martin Deserno

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A Refined SVM Applied in Medical Image Annotation
Bo Qiu

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Inter-media Concept-Based Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval with UMLS at IPAL
Caroline Lacoste | Jean-Pierre Chevallet | Joo-Hwee Lim | Diem Thi Hoang Le | Wei Xiong | Daniel Racoceanu | Roxana Teodorescu | Nicolas Vuillemenot

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UB at ImageCLEFmed 2006
Miguel E. Ruiz

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Translation by Text Categorisation: Medical Image Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2006
Julien Gobeill | Henning Müller | Patrick Ruch

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Using Information Gain to Improve the ImageCLEF 2006 Collection
Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano | Miguel Angel García Cumbreras | María Teresa Martín-Valdivia | Arturo Montejo-Ráez | Luis Alfonso Ureña López

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CINDI at ImageCLEF 2006: Image Retrieval & Annotation Tasks for the General Photographic and Medical Image Collections
Md Mahmudur Rahman | Varun Sood | Bipin C. Desai | Prabir Bhattacharya

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Image Retrieval and Annotation Using Maximum Entropy
Thomas Deselaers | Tobias Weyand | Hermann Ney

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Inter-media Pseudo-relevance Feedback Application to ImageCLEF 2006 Photo Retrieval
Nicolas Maillot | Jean-Pierre Chevallet | Joo-Hwee Lim

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ImageCLEF 2006 Experiments at the Chemnitz Technical University
Thomas Wilhelm | Maximilian Eibl

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Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track
Douglas W. Oard | Jianqiang Wang | Gareth J. F. Jones | Ryen W. White | Pavel Pecina | Dagobert Soergel | Xiaoli Huang | Izhak Shafran

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Benefit of Proper Language Processing for Czech Speech Retrieval in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2006
Pavel Ircing | Ludek Müller

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Applying Logic Forms and Statistical Methods to CL-SR Performance
Rafael M. Terol | Patricio Martínez-Barco | Manuel Palomar

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XML Information Retrieval from Spoken Word Archives
Robin Aly | Djoerd Hiemstra | Roeland Ordelman | Laurens van der Werff | Franciska de Jong

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Experiments for the Cross Language Speech Retrieval Task at CLEF 2006
Muath Alzghool | Diana Zaiu Inkpen

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CLEF-2006 CL-SR at Maryland: English and Czech
Jianqiang Wang | Douglas W. Oard

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Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments
Gareth J. F. Jones | Ke Zhang | Adenike M. Lam-Adesina

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Overview of WebCLEF 2006
Krisztian Balog | Leif Azzopardi | Jaap Kamps | Maarten de Rijke

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Improving Web Pages Retrieval Using Combined Fields
Carlos G. Figuerola | José Luis Alonso Berrocal | Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez | Emilio Rodríguez

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A Penalisation-Based Ranking Approach for the Mixed Monolingual Task of WebCLEF 2006
David Pinto | Paolo Rosso | Ernesto Jiménez

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Index Combinations and Query Reformulations for Mixed Monolingual Web Retrieval
Krisztian Balog | Maarten de Rijke

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Multilingual Web Retrieval Experiments with Field Specific Indexing Strategies for WebCLEF 2006 at the University of Hildesheim
Ben Heuwing | Thomas Mandl | Robert Strötgen

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Vocabulary Reduction and Text Enrichment at WebCLEF
Franco Rojas López | Héctor Jiménez-Salazar | David Pinto

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Experiments with the 4 Query Sets of WebCLEF 2006
Stephen Tomlinson

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Applying Relevance Feedback for Retrieving Web-Page Retrieval
Syntia Wijaya | Bimo Widhi | Tommy Khoerniawan | Mirna Adriani

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GeoCLEF 2006: The CLEF 2006 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview
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

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MIRACLE's Ad-Hoc and Geographical IR Approaches for CLEF 2006
José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo | José Carlos González Cristóbal | Sara Lana-Serrano | Ángel Martínez-González

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GIR Experimentation
Geoffrey Andogah

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GIR with Geographic Query Expansion
Antonio Toral | Óscar Ferrández | Elisa Noguera | Zornitsa Kozareva | Andrés Montoyo | Rafael Muñoz

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Monolingual and Bilingual Experiments in GeoCLEF2006
Rocio Guillén

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Experiments on the Exclusion of Metonymic Location Names from GIR
Johannes Leveling | Dirk Veiel

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The University of New South Wales at GeoCLEF 2006
You-Heng Hu | Linlin Ge

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GEOUJA System. The First Participation of the University of Jaén at GEOCLEF 2006
Manuel García Vega | Miguel Angel García Cumbreras | Luis Alfonso Ureña López | José M. Perea-Ortega

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R2D2 at GeoCLEF 2006: A Combined Approach
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

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MSRA Columbus at GeoCLEF 2006
Zhisheng Li | Chong Wang | Xing Xie | Xufa Wang | Wei-Ying Ma

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Forostar: A System for GIR
Simon E. Overell | João Magalhães | Stefan M. Rüger

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NICTA I2D2 Group at GeoCLEF 2006
Yi Li | Nicola Stokes | Lawrence Cavedon | Alistair Moffat

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Blind Relevance Feedback and Named Entity Based Query Expansion for Geographic Retrieval at GeoCLEF 2006
Kerstin Bischoff | Thomas Mandl | Christa Womser-Hacker

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A WordNet-Based Indexing Technique for Geographical Information Retrieval
Davide Buscaldi | Paolo Rosso | Emilio Sanchis

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University of Twente at GeoCLEF 2006: Geofiltered Document Retrieval
Claudia Hauff | Dolf Trieschnigg | Henning Rode

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TALP at GeoCLEF 2006: Experiments Using JIRS and Lucene with the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus
Daniel Ferrés | Horacio Rodríguez

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GeoCLEF Text Retrieval and Manual Expansion Approaches
Ray R. Larson | Fredric C. Gey

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UB at GeoCLEF 2006
Miguel E. Ruiz | June M. Abbas | David Mark | Stuart Shapiro | Sílvia Barcellos Southwick

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The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006
Bruno Martins | Nuno Cardoso | Marcirio Silveira Chaves | Leonardo Andrade | Mário J. Silva