CLEF 2004
CLEF2004 Working Notes

Table of Contents

Preface

• Introduction
  Carol Peters

Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections

• The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (ImageCLEF) 2004
  Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Henning Müller
• Caption vs. Query Translation for Cross-Language Image Retrieval
  Paul Clough
• Pattern-based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004
  Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, José L. Vicedo, Rubén Izquierdo
• Report on the ImageCLEF Experiment: How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection using GIFT
  Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Patrick Ruch
• UNED@ImageCLEF 2004: Using Image Captions Structure and Noun Phrase Based Query Expansion for Cross-Language Image Caption Retrieval
  Víctor Peinado, Javier Artiles, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew's Collection
  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
  Wen-Cheng Lin, Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
• Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval
  Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, Jian-Yun Nie
• FIRE - Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation
  Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney
• MIRACLE at ImageCLEF 2004
  J.L. Martínez-Fernández, Ana García Serrano, Julio Villena, Víctor David Méndez Sáenz, Santiago González Tortosa, Michelangelo Castagnone, Javier Alonso
• LIC2M Experiments at ImageCLEF 2004
  Romaric Besançon, Patrick Hède, Pierre-Alain Moellic, Christian Fluhr
• Report on the CLEF Experiment: Combining Image and Multilingual Search for Medical Image Retrieval
  Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Patrick Ruch
• FINT: Find Images aNd Text
  Menno van Zaanen, Guido de Croon
• Visual Features for Content-based Medical Image Retrieval
  Peter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, Stefan Rüger
• KIDS's Evaluation in the Medical Image Retrieval Task at ImageCLEF 2004
  Pei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang
• A Probabilistic Approach to the Medical Retrieval Task
  Koen Lubbers, Arjen de Vries, Theo Huibers, Paul van der Vet
• UB at CLEF2004: Part 2 - Cross Language Medical Image Retrieval
  Miguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth
• Content-based Queries on the Casimage Database with the IRMA framework: A Field Report
  Christian Thies, Mark Oliver Güld, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas M. Lehmann
• NCTU-ISU's Evaluation for the User-Centered Search Task at ImageCLEF 2004
  Pei-Cheng Cheng, Jen-Yuan Yeh, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang

Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval

• CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
  Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Gina-Anne Levow, Gareth J.F. Jones

Mono- and Cross-Language IR on Structured Scientific Data

• University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task
  Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf
• IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task
  Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
• Ricoh at CLEF 2004
  Yuichi Kojima
• GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval
  Vivien Petras

Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

• iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
  Julio Gonzalo, Douglas W. Oard
• Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages versus Searching Documents
  Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Victor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo
• REINA at iCLEF 2004
  Carlos G. Figuerola, Angel F. Zazo, José L. Alonso Berrocal, Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana
• Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic Patterns
  Borja Navarro, Loren Moreno, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo, Miguel Ángel Varó
• Bookmarking, Thesaurus, and Cooperation in Bilingual Question Answering
  Jussi Karlgren, Preben Hansen, Magnus Sahlgren
• iCLEF 2004 at Maryland: Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
  Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard

Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval

• Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval
  Jacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger
• Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Derivation from Randomness: X-IOTA IR System used for CLIPS Mono & Bilingual Experiments for CLEF 2004
  Gilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet
• Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT for CLEF 2004
  Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
• The University of Padua at CLEF 2004: Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources
  Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Nicola Orio
• Application of Variable Length N-gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval
  Daniel Gayo-Avello, Darío Álvarez-Gutiérrez, José Gayo-Avello
• LIC2M Experiments at CLEF 2004
  Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr
• IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages
  Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol, Elisa Noguera
• Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF
  David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George Foster, Claude St-Jacques
• Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004
  Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams
• The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2004
  Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Willem Robert van Hage, Jaap Kamps, Gustavo Lacerda de Melo, Maarten de Rijke
• Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Trial at CLEF 2004
  Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando, Kuang-Hua Chen
• Dictionary-based Amharic - English Information Retrieval
  Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren
• Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation
  Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Timo Järvinen, Rickard Cöster
• SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm
  Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Miguel Angel García-Cumbreras, Manuel C. Díaz-Galiano, L. Alfonso Ureña
• Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim
  René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
• University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval
  Gina-Anne Levow, Irina Matveeva
• UB at CLEF2004: Part 1 - Monolingual and Multilingual Tasks
  Miguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth
• MIRACLE's Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information Retrieval
  José M. Goñi-Menoyo, José C. González, José L. Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena-Román, Ana M. García-Serrano, Paloma Martínez-Fernández, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Javier Alonso-Sánchez
• Searching a Russian Document Collection using English, Chinese and Japanese Queries
  Fredric C. Gey
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval
  Gareth J. F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike Lam-Adesina, Joachim Wagner
• Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2004
  Stephen Tomlinson
• Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval
  Jacques Savoy
• The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004
  Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Miguel Costa
• The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier
  Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis

Multiple Language Question Answering

• Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track
  Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ayache, Gregor Erbach, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke, Paulo Rocha, Kiril Simov, Richard Sutcliffe
• Question Answering System for the French Language
  Laura Perrot
• Cross-Language French-English Question Answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2004
  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
  Günter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu
• The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF 2004
  V. Jijkoun, G. Mishne, M. de Rijke, S. Schlobach, D. Ahn, K. Müller
• The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004
  Hristo Tanev, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, Milen Kouylekov
• Cross-lingual Question Answering with QED
  Kisuh Ahn, Beatrix Alex, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner, Matthew B. Smillie
• Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources
  Petya Osenova, Alexander Simov, Kiril Simov, Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov
• How to Answer in English to Questions Asked in French: by Exploiting Results from Several Sources of Information
  Guillaume Bourdil, Faza Elkateb, Brigitte Grau, Gabriel Illouz, Laura Monceaux, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat
• Cross-Language Question Answering at the University of Helsinki
  Lili Aunimo, Reeta Kuuskoski, Juha Makkonen
• miraQA: Initial Experiments in Question Answering
  C. de Pablo, J.L. Martínez-Fernández, P. Martínez, J. Villena, A.M. García-Serrano, J.M. Goñi, J.C. González
• The Use of Lexical Context in Question Answering for Spanish
  M. Pérez-Coutiño, T. Solorio, M. Montes-y-Gómez, A. López-López, L. Villaseñor-Pineda
• Question Answering using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching
  Sven Hartrumpf
• First Evaluation of Esfinge - a Question Answering System for Portuguese
  Luís Costa
• The University of Évora approach to QA@CLEF-2004
  Paulo Quaresma, Luís Quintano, Irene Rodrigues, José Saias, Pedro Salgueiro
• COLE at CLEF 2004: Rapid Prototyping of a QA System for Spanish
  Enrique Méndez Díaz, Jesús Vilares Ferro, David Cabrero Souto
• Does English help Question Answering in Spanish?
  José L. Vicedo, Maximiliano Saiz, Rubén Izquierdo
• TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF-2004
  Alicia Ageno, Daniel Ferrés, Edgar González, Samir Kanaan, Horacio Rodríguez, Mihai Surdeanu, Jordi Turmo
• QA at ILC-UniPI: Description of the Prototype
  Francesca Bertagna, Luminita Chiran, Maria Simi
• Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004
  Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo
• Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QA
  E. Saquete, J. L. Vicedo, P. Martínez-Barco, R. Muñoz

Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

• Issues When Building CLIR Applications: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 Workshop
  Gregor Thurmair
• NTCIR-4: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 Workshop
  Noriko Kando
• CHAVE: Topics and Questions on the Portuguese Participation in CLEF
  Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha
• How do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?
  Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker

Appendix

• Contents
  
• Appendix A: Results of the Monolingual. Bilingual, Multilingual and Domain-Specific Tracks: Introduction
  
• Appendix A: Results of the Monolingual. Bilingual, Multilingual and Domain-Specific Tracks: Run Statistics
  
• Appendix B: Results of the Multiple Language Question Answering Track
  
• Appendix C: Results of the Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track