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

by Peters, Carol; Clough, Paul; Gonzalo, Julio; Jones, Gareth J. F.; Kluck, Michael

• ISBN13: 9783540274209
• ISBN10: 3540274200
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, held in Bath, UK in September 2004. The 80 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on ad hoc text retrieval tracks (mainly cross-language experiments and monolingual experiments), domain-specific document retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language spoken document retrieval, and on issues in CLIR and in evaluation.

Table of Contents

What Happened in CLEF 2004?	1	(9)
Carol Peters
Part I. Ad Hoc Text Retrieval Tracks
CLEF 2004: Ad Hoc Track Overview and Results Analysis	10	(17)
Martin Braschler
Giorgio M. Di Nunzio
Nicola Ferro
Carol Peters
Mainly Cross-Language Experiments
Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval	27	(11)
Jacques Savoy
Pierre- Yves Berger
Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Deviation from Randomness	38	(12)
Jean-Pierre Chevallet
Gilles Serasset
Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT at CLEF 2004	50	(10)
Paul McNamee
James Mayfield
Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources	60	(13)
Giorgio M. Di Nunzio
Nicola Ferro
Nicola Orio
Application of Variable Length N-Gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval	73	(10)
Daniel Gayo-Avello
Dario Alvarez-Gutierrez
Jose Gayo-Avello
Integrating New Languages in a Multilingual Search System Based on a Deep Linguistic Analysis	83	(7)
Romaric Besancon
Olivier Ferret
Christian Fluhr
IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages	90	(10)
Fernando Llopis
Rafael Munoz
Rafael M. Terol
Elisa Noguera
Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF	100	(10)
David Nadeau
Mario Jarmasz
Caroline Barriere
George Foster
Claude St-Jacques
Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004	110	(13)
Isabelle Moulinier
Ken Williams
Effective Translation, Tokenization and Combination for Cross-Lingual Retrieval	123	(12)
Jaap Kamps
Sisay Fissaha Adafre
Maarten de Rijke
Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2004	135	(8)
Kazuaki Kishida
Noriko Kando
Kuang-Hua Chen
Dictionary-Based Amharic -- English Information Retrieval	143	(7)
Atelach Alemu Argaw
Lars Asker
Rickard Coster
Jussi Karlgren
Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation	150	(6)
Jussi Karlgren
Magnus Sahlgren
Timo Jarvinen
Rickard Coster
SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with a Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm	156	(9)
Fernando Martinez-Santiago
Miguel A. Garcia-Cumbreras
Manuel C. Diaz-Galiano
L. Alfonso Urena
Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim	165	(5)
Rene Hackl
Thomas Mandl
Christa Womser-Hacker
University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-Language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval	170	(10)
Gina-Anne Levow
Irina Matveeva
UB at CLEF2004: Cross Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical Language Models	180	(8)
Miguel E. Ruiz
Munirathnam Srikanth
MIRACLE's Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information Retrieval	188	(12)
Jose M. Goni-Menoyo
Jose C. Gonzalez
Jose Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Julio Villena
Searching a Russian Document Collection Using English Chinese and Japanese Queries	200	(7)
Fredric C. Gey
Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval	207	(14)
Gareth J.F. Jones
Michael Burke
John Judge
Anna Khasin
Adenike Lam-Adesina
Joachim Wagner
Monolingual Experiments
Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2004	221	(12)
Stephen Tomlinson
Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval	233	(12)
Jacques Savoy
The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004	245	(8)
Nuno Cardoso
Mario J. Silva
Miguel Costa
The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier	253	(7)
Christina Lioma
Ben He
Vassilis Plachouras
Iadh Ounis
Part II. Domain-Specific Document Retrieval
The Domain-Specific Track in CLEF 2004: Overview of the Results and Remarks on the Assessment Process	260	(11)
Michael Kluck
University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task	271	(12)
Johannes Leveling
Sven Hartrumpf
IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task	283	(9)
Mustapha Baziz
Mohand Boughanem
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
Ricoh at CLEF 2004	292	(6)
Yuichi Kojima
GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval	298	(12)
Vivien Petras
Part III. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval
iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Pilot Experiments in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering	310	(13)
Julio Gonzalo
Douglas W. Oard
Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages Versus Searching Documents	323	(11)
Fernando Lopez-Ostenero
Julio Gonzalo
Victor Peinado
Felisa Verdejo
Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering Through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic Patterns	334	(9)
Borja Navarro
Lorenza Moreno
Sonia Vazquez
Fernando Llopis
Andres Montoyo
Miguel Angel Varo
Cooperation Bookmarking, and Thesaurus in Interactive Bilingual Question Answering	343	(5)
Preben Hansen
Jussi Karlgren
Magnus Sahlgren
Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering	348	(15)
Daqing He
Jianqiang Wang
Jun Luo
Douglas W. Oard
Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval	363	(8)
Carlos G. Figuerola
Angel F. Zazo
Jose L. Alonso Berrocal
Emilio Rodriguez Vazquez de Aldana
Part IV. Multiple Language Question Answering
Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track	371	(21)
Bernardo Magnini
Alessandro Vallin
Christelle Ayache
Gregor Erbach
Anselmo Penas
Maarten de Rijke
Paulo Rocha
Kiril Simov
Richard F.E. Sutcliffe
A Question Answering System for French	392	(12)
Laura Perret
Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2004	404	(7)
Richard F.E. Sutcliffe
Igal Gabbay
Michael Mulcahy
Aoife O `Gorman
Experiments on Robust NL Question Interpretation and Multi-layered Document Annotation for a Cross-Language Question / Answering System	411	(12)
Gunter Neumann
Bogdan Sacaleanu
Making Stone Soup: Evaluating a Recall-Oriented Multi-stream Question Answering System for Dutch	423	(12)
David Ahn
Valentin Jijkoun
Karin Muller
Maarten de Rijke
Stefan Schlobach
Gilad Mishne
The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004	435	(11)
Hristo Tanev
Matteo Negri
Bernardo Magnini
Milen Kouylekov
Cross-Lingual Question Answering Using Off-the-Shelf Machine Translation	446	(12)
Kisuh Ahn
Beatrice Alex
Johan Bos
Tiphaine Dalmas
Jochen L. Leidner
Matthew B. Smillie
Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources	458	(12)
Petya Osenova
Alexander Simov
Kiril Simov
Hristo Tanev
Milen Kouylekov
Answering French Questions in English by Exploiting Results from Several Sources of Information	470	(12)
Brigitte Grau
Gabriel Illouz
Laura Monceaux
Isabelle Robba
Anne Vilnat
Guillaume Bourdil
Faiza Elkateb-Gara
Olivier Ferret
Benoit Mathieu
Finnish as Source Language in Bilingual Question Answering	482	(12)
Lili Aunimo
Reeta Kuuskoski
Juha Makkonen
miraQA: Experiments with Learning Answer Context Patterns from the Web	494	(8)
Cesar de Pablo-Sanchez
Jose Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Paloma Martinez
Julio Villena
Question Answering for Spanish Supported by Lexical Context Annotation	502	(10)
Manuel Perez-Coutino
Thamar Solorio
Manuel Montes-y-Gomez
Aurelio Lopez-Lopez
Luis Villasenor-Pineda
Question Answering Using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching	512	(10)
Sven Hartrumpf
First Evaluation of Esfinge -- A Question Answering System for Portuguese	522	(12)
Luis Costa
University of Evora in QA@CLEF-2004	534	(10)
Paulo Quaresma
Luis Quintano
Irene Rodrigues
Jose Saias
Pedro Salgueiro
COLE Experiments at QA@CLEF 2004 Spanish Monolingual Track	544	(8)
Enrique Mendez Diaz
Jesus Vilares Ferro
David Cabrero Souto
Does English Help Question Answering in Spanish?	552	(5)
Jose Luis Vicedo
Maximiliano Saiz
Ruben Izquierdo
Fernando Llopis
The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF 2004: Structural and Hierarchical Relaxing of Semantic Constraints	557	(12)
Daniel Ferres
Samir Kanaan
Alicia Ageno
Edgar Gonzalez
Horacio Rodriguez
Mihai Surdeanu
Jordi Turmo
ILC-UniPI Italian QA	569	(12)
Francesca Bertagna
Luminita Chiran
Maria Simi
Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004	581	(10)
Jesus Herrera
Anselmo Penas
Felisa Verdejo
Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QA	591	(6)
Estela Saquete
Jose Luis Vicedo
Patricio Martinez-Barco
Rafael Munoz
Fernando Llopis
Part V. Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections
The CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track	597	(17)
Paul Clough
Henning Muller
Mark Sanderson
Caption and Query Translation for Cross-Language Image Retrieval	614	(12)
Paul Clough
Pattern-Based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004	626	(7)
Maximiliano Saiz
Jose Luis Vicedo
Ruben Izquierdo
How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection Using GIFT	633	(10)
Henning Muller
Antoine Geissbuhler
UNED at ImageCLEF 2004: Detecting Named Entities and Noun Phrases for Automatic Query Expansion and Structuring	643	(10)
Victor Peinado
Javier Artiles
Fernando Lopez-Ostenero
Julio Gonzalo
Felisa Verdejo
Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St. Andrew's Collection	653	(11)
Gareth J.F. Jones
Declan Groves
Anna Khasin
Adenike Lam-Adesina
Bart Mellebeek
Andy Way
From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image Retrieval	664	(12)
Wen-Cheng Lin
Yih-Chen Chang
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval	676	(12)
Carmen Alvarez
Ahmed Id Oumohmed
Max Mignotte
Jian-Yun Nie
FIRE -- Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation	688	(11)
Thomas Deselaers
Daniel Keysers
Hermann Ney
MIRACLE Approach to ImageCLEF 2004: Merging Textual and Content-Based Image Retrieval	699	(10)
Jose Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Ana Garcia-Serrano
Julio Villena
Victor Mendez-Saenz
Cross-Media Feedback Strategies: Merging Text and Image Information to Improve Image Retrieval	709	(9)
Romaric Besancon
Patrick Hede
Pierre-Alain Moellic
Christian Fluhr
ImageCLEF 2004: Combining Image and Multi-lingual Search for Medical Image Retrieval	718	(10)
Henning Muller
Antoine Geissbuhler
Patrick Ruch
Multi-modal Information Retrieval Using FINT	728	(12)
Menno van Zaanen
Guido de Croon
Medical Image Retrieval Using Texture, Locality and Colour	740	(10)
Peter Howarth
Alexei Yavlinsky
Daniel Heesch
Stefan Ruger
SMIRE: Similar Medical Image Retrieval Engine	750	(11)
Pei-Cheng Cheng
Been-Chian Chien
Hao-Ren Ke
Wei-Pang Yang
A Probabilistic Approach to Medical Image Retrieval	761	(12)
Koen Lubbers
Arjen P. de Vries
Theo Huibers
Paul van der Vet
UB at CLEF2004 Cross Language Medical Image Retrieval	773	(8)
Miguel E. Ruiz
Munirathnam Srikanth
Content-Based Queries on the CasImage Database Within the IRMA Framework	781	(12)
Christian Thies
Mark Oliver Guld
Benedikt Fischer
Thomas M. Lehmann
Comparison and Combination of Textual and Visual Features for Interactive Cross-Language Image Retrieval	793	(12)
Pei-Cheng Cheng
Jen-Yuan Yeh
Hao-Ren Ke
Been-Chian Chien
Wei-Pang Yang
MSU at ImageCLEF: Cross Language and Interactive Image Retrieval	805	(11)
Vineet Bansal
Chen Zhang
Joyce Y. Chai
Rong Jin
Part VI. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval
CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track	816	(5)
Marcello Federico
Nicola Bertoldi
Gina-Anne Levow
Gareth J.F. Jones
Part VII. Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation
The Key to the First CLEF with Portuguese: Topics, Questions and Answers in CHAVE	821	(12)
Diana Santos
Paulo Rocha
How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?	833	(10)
Thomas Mandl
Christa Womser-Hacker
Author Index	843