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

Front Matter....Pages -
What Happened in CLEF 2004?....Pages 1-9
CLEF 2004: Ad Hoc Track Overview and Results Analysis....Pages 10-26
Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval....Pages 27-37
Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Deviation from Randomness....Pages 38-49
Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT at CLEF 2004....Pages 50-59
Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources....Pages 60-72
Application of Variable Length N -Gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval....Pages 73-82
Integrating New Languages in a Multilingual Search System Based on a Deep Linguistic Analysis....Pages 83-89
IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages....Pages 90-99
Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF....Pages 100-109
Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004....Pages 110-122
Effective Translation, Tokenization and Combination for Cross-Lingual Retrieval....Pages 123-134
Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2004....Pages 135-142
Dictionary-Based Amharic – English Information Retrieval....Pages 143-149
Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation....Pages 150-155
SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with a Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm....Pages 156-164
Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim....Pages 165-169
University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-Language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval....Pages 170-179
UB at CLEF2004: Cross Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical Language Models....Pages 180-187
MIRACLE’s Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information Retrieval....Pages 188-199
Searching a Russian Document Collection Using English, Chinese and Japanese Queries....Pages 200-206
Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval....Pages 207-220
Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer TM at CLEF 2004....Pages 221-232
Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval....Pages 233-244
The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004....Pages 245-252
The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier....Pages 253-259
The Domain-Specific Track in CLEF 2004: Overview of the Results and Remarks on the Assessment Process....Pages 260-270
University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task....Pages 271-282
IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task....Pages 283-291
Ricoh at CLEF 2004....Pages 292-297
GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval....Pages 298-309
iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Pilot Experiments in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering....Pages 310-322
Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages Versus Searching Documents....Pages 323-333
Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering Through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic Patterns....Pages 334-342
Cooperation, Bookmarking, and Thesaurus in Interactive Bilingual Question Answering....Pages 343-347
Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering....Pages 348-362
Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval....Pages 363-370
Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track....Pages 371-391
A Question Answering System for French....Pages 392-403
Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2004....Pages 404-410
Experiments on Robust NL Question Interpretation and Multi-layered Document Annotation for a Cross–Language Question/Answering System....Pages 411-422
Making Stone Soup: Evaluating a Recall-Oriented Multi-stream Question Answering System for Dutch....Pages 423-434
The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004....Pages 435-445
Cross-Lingual Question Answering Using Off-the-Shelf Machine Translation....Pages 446-457
Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources....Pages 458-469
Answering French Questions in English by Exploiting Results from Several Sources of Information....Pages 470-481
Finnish as Source Language in Bilingual Question Answering....Pages 482-493
miraQA: Experiments with Learning Answer Context Patterns from the Web....Pages 494-501
Question Answering for Spanish Supported by Lexical Context Annotation....Pages 502-511
Question Answering Using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching....Pages 512-521
First Evaluation of Esfinge – A Question Answering System for Portuguese....Pages 522-533
University of Évora in QA@CLEF-2004....Pages 534-543
COLE Experiments at QA@CLEF 2004 Spanish Monolingual Track....Pages 544-551
Does English Help Question Answering in Spanish?....Pages 552-556
The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF 2004: Structural and Hierarchical Relaxing of Semantic Constraints....Pages 557-568
ILC-UniPI Italian QA....Pages 569-580
Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004....Pages 581-590
Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QA....Pages 591-596
The CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track....Pages 597-613
Caption and Query Translation for Cross-Language Image Retrieval....Pages 614-625
Pattern-Based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004....Pages 626-632
How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection Using GIFT....Pages 633-642
UNED at ImageCLEF 2004: Detecting Named Entities and Noun Phrases for Automatic Query Expansion and Structuring....Pages 643-652
Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St. Andrew’s Collection....Pages 653-663
From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image Retrieval....Pages 664-675
Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval....Pages 676-687
FIRE – Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation....Pages 688-698
MIRACLE Approach to ImageCLEF 2004: Merging Textual and Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 699-708
Cross-Media Feedback Strategies: Merging Text and Image Information to Improve Image Retrieval....Pages 709-717
ImageCLEF 2004: Combining Image and Multi-lingual Search for Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 718-727
Multi-modal Information Retrieval Using FINT....Pages 728-739
Medical Image Retrieval Using Texture, Locality and Colour....Pages 740-749
SMIRE: Similar Medical Image Retrieval Engine....Pages 750-760
A Probabilistic Approach to Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 761-772
UB at CLEF2004 Cross Language Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 773-780
Content-Based Queries on the CasImage Database Within the IRMA Framework....Pages 781-792
Comparison and Combination of Textual and Visual Features for Interactive Cross-Language Image Retrieval....Pages 793-804
MSU at ImageCLEF: Cross Language and Interactive Image Retrieval....Pages 805-815
CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track....Pages 816-820
The Key to the First CLEF with Portuguese: Topics, Questions and Answers in CHAVE....Pages 821-832
How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?....Pages 833-842
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