Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evalution Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter....Pages -
What Happened in CLEF 2005....Pages 1-10
CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc Track Overview....Pages 11-36
Ad-Hoc Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim....Pages 37-43
MIRACLE at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2005: Merging and Combining Without Using a Single Approach....Pages 44-53
The XLDB Group at the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Task....Pages 54-60
Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2005....Pages 61-68
Using the X-IOTA System in Mono- and Bilingual Experiments at CLEF 2005....Pages 69-78
Bilingual and Multilingual Experiments with the IR-n System....Pages 79-82
Dictionary-Based Amharic-French Information Retrieval....Pages 83-92
A Hybrid Approach to Query and Document Translation Using a Pivot Language for Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 93-101
Conceptual Indexing for Multilingual Information Retrieval....Pages 102-112
SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-on and Multi-8 Merging-Only Tasks....Pages 113-120
CLEF 2005: Multilingual Retrieval by Combining Multiple Multilingual Ranked Lists....Pages 121-130
Monolingual, Bilingual, and GIRT Information Retrieval at CLEF-2005....Pages 131-140
Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information Retrieval....Pages 141-150
The Performance of a Machine Translation-Based English-Indonesian CLIR System....Pages 151-154
Exploring New Languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005....Pages 155-164
Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-On Merging Experiments....Pages 165-169
Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval....Pages 170-178
Four Stemmers and a Funeral: Stemming in Hungarian at CLEF 2005....Pages 179-186
ENSM-SE at CLEF 2005: Using a Fuzzy Proximity Matching Function....Pages 187-193
Bulgarian and Hungarian Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServer TM at CLEF 2005....Pages 194-203
Combining Passages in the Monolingual Task with the IR-n System....Pages 204-207
Weighting Query Terms Based on Distributional Statistics....Pages 208-211
Domain-Specific Track CLEF 2005: Overview of Results and Approaches, Remarks on the Assessment Analysis....Pages 212-221
A Baseline for NLP in Domain-Specific IR....Pages 222-225
Domain-Specific CLIR of English, German and Russian Using Fusion and Subject Metadata for Query Expansion....Pages 226-237
Evaluating a Conceptual Indexing Method by Utilizing WordNet....Pages 238-246
Domain Specific Mono- and Bilingual English to German Retrieval Experiments with a Social Science Document Corpus....Pages 247-250
Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive Track....Pages 251-262
Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering....Pages 263-272
“How Much Context Do You Need?”: An Experiment About the Context Size in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering....Pages 273-282
UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential Answers....Pages 283-292
Effect of Connective Functions in Interactive Image Retrieval....Pages 293-296
Using Concept Hierarchies in Text-Based Image Retrieval: A User Evaluation....Pages 297-306
Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering Track....Pages 307-331
A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering for English and German....Pages 332-336
The ŒDipe System at CLEF-QA 2005....Pages 337-346
An XML-Based System for Spanish Question Answering....Pages 347-350
A Logic Programming Based Approach to QA@CLEF05 Track....Pages 351-360
Extending Knowledge and Deepening Linguistic Processing for the Question Answering System InSicht....Pages 361-369
Question Answering for Dutch Using Dependency Relations....Pages 370-379
Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-terms....Pages 380-389
Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005....Pages 390-399
The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF 2005....Pages 400-409
Priberam’s Question Answering System for Portuguese....Pages 410-419
A Full Data-Driven System for Multiple Language Question Answering....Pages 420-428
Experiments on Cross–Linguality and Question–Type Driven Strategy Selection for Open–Domain QA....Pages 429-438
QUASAR: The Question Answering System of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia....Pages 439-448
Towards an Offline XML-Based Strategy for Answering Questions....Pages 449-456
AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2005....Pages 457-466
20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) Solving the Riddles at CLEF 2005....Pages 467-476
Question Answering Experiments for Finnish and French....Pages 477-487
MIRACLE’s Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments with Spanish as a Target Language....Pages 488-491
The Role of Lexical Features in Question Answering for Spanish....Pages 492-501
Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2005....Pages 502-509
Finding Answers to Indonesian Questions from English Documents....Pages 510-516
BulQA: Bulgarian–Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005....Pages 517-526
The Query Answering System PRODICOS....Pages 527-534
The CLEF 2005 Cross–Language Image Retrieval Track....Pages 535-557
Linguistic Estimation of Topic Difficulty in Cross-Language Image Retrieval....Pages 558-566
Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew’s Collection....Pages 567-573
A Probabilistic, Text and Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval System....Pages 574-577
UNED at ImageCLEF 2005: Automatically Structured Queries with Named Entities over Metadata....Pages 578-581
Easing Erroneous Translations in Cross-Language Image Retrieval Using Word Associations....Pages 582-591
A Corpus-Based Relevance Feedback Approach to Cross-Language Image Retrieval....Pages 592-601
CUHK at ImageCLEF 2005: Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval....Pages 602-611
The University of Jaén at ImageCLEF 2005: Adhoc and Medical Tasks....Pages 612-621
Data Fusion of Retrieval Results from Different Media: Experiments at ImageCLEF 2005....Pages 622-631
Combining Visual Features for Medical Image Retrieval and Annotation....Pages 632-641
A Structured Visual Learning Approach Mixed with Ontology Dimensions for Medical Queries....Pages 642-651
FIRE in ImageCLEF 2005: Combining Content-Based Image Retrieval with Textual Information Retrieval....Pages 652-661
A Clustered Retrieval Approach for Categorizing and Annotating Images....Pages 662-672
Manual Query Modification and Data Fusion for Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 673-679
Combining Textual and Visual Features for Image Retrieval....Pages 680-691
Supervised Machine Learning Based Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2005....Pages 692-701
Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images by Combining Global Features....Pages 702-711
Combining Textual and Visual Features for Cross-Language Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 712-723
The Use of MedGIFT and EasyIR for ImageCLEF 2005....Pages 724-732
Retrieving Images Using Cross-Language Text and Image Features....Pages 733-736
UB at CLEF 2005: Bilingual CLIR and Medical Image Retrieval Tasks....Pages 737-743
Overview of the CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track....Pages 744-759
Using Various Indexing Schemes and Multiple Translations in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2005....Pages 760-768
The University of Alicante at CL-SR Track....Pages 769-772
Pitt at CLEF05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document Retrieval....Pages 773-782
UNED@CL-SR CLEF 2005: Mixing Different Strategies to Retrieve Automatic Speech Transcriptions....Pages 783-791
Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments....Pages 792-799
CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion Using Side Collections and Thesauri....Pages 800-809
Overview of WebCLEF 2005....Pages 810-824
EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus....Pages 825-836
Web Retrieval Experiments with the EuroGOV Corpus at the University of Hildesheim....Pages 837-845
Danish and Greek Web Search Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServer TM at CLEF 2005....Pages 846-855
Combination Methods for Crosslingual Web Retrieval....Pages 856-864
University of Alicante at the CLEF 2005 WebCLEF Track....Pages 865-868
MIRACLE at WebCLEF 2005: Combining Web Specific and Linguistic Information....Pages 869-872
BUAP-UPV TPIRS: A System for Document Indexing Reduction at WebCLEF....Pages 873-879
Web Page Retrieval by Combining Evidence....Pages 880-887
UNED at WebCLEF 2005....Pages 888-891
Using the Web Information Structure for Retrieving Web Pages....Pages 892-897
University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: Experiments in Per-Field Normalisation and Language Specific Stemming....Pages 898-907
GeoCLEF: The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview....Pages 908-919
MIRACLE at GeoCLEF 2005: First Experiments in Geographical IR....Pages 920-923
University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005....Pages 924-927
Evaluating Geographic Information Retrieval....Pages 928-938
Using the WordNet Ontology in the GeoCLEF Geographical Information Retrieval Task....Pages 939-946
The GeoTALP-IR System at GeoCLEF 2005: Experiments Using a QA-Based IR System, Linguistic Analysis, and a Geographical Thesaurus....Pages 947-955
CSUSM Experiments in GeoCLEF2005: Monolingual and Bilingual Tasks....Pages 956-962
Berkeley at GeoCLEF: Logistic Regression and Fusion for Geographic Information Retrieval....Pages 963-976
Using Semantic Networks for Geographic Information Retrieval....Pages 977-986
Experiments with Geo-Filtering Predicates for IR....Pages 987-996
The XLDB Group at GeoCLEF 2005....Pages 997-1006
Portuguese at CLEF 2005....Pages 1007-1010
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