Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gonzalo, Julio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Braschler, Martin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kluck, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3237
• Subjects: Library science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Natural language processing (Computer science).; Library Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Artificial Intelligence.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Natural Language Processing (NLP).

The fourth campaign of the Cross-language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to August 2003. Participation in this campaign showed a slight rise in the number of participants from the previous year, with 42 groups submitting results for one or more of the different...

Table of Contents:

• CLEF 2003 Methodology and Metrics
• Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum
• Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at the NTCIR Workshop
• I. Ad-hoc Text Retrieval Tracks
• CLEF 2003 - Overview of Results
• Mainly Cross-Language Experiments
• Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual Tracks
• The Impact of Word Normalization Methods and Merging Strategies on Multilingual IR
• JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-word Translation
• Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora
• Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval
• Cross-Language Experiments with the IR-n System
• Multilingual Information Retrieval Using Open, Transparent Resources in CLEF 2003
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Information Retrieval
• Language-Dependent and Language-Independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval
• Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim
• Concept-Based Searching and Merging for Multilingual Information Retrieval: First Experiments at CLEF 2003
• CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB: Automatically Generated Phrases and Relevance Feedback for Improving CLIR
• SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging
• Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
• MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Baseline for Future Research
• Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word Translation
• Clairvoyance CLEF-2003 Experiments
• Simple Translations of Monolingual Queries Expanded Through an Association Thesaurus
• Two-Stage Refinement of Query Translation in a Pivot Language Approach to Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2003
• Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
• Exeter at CLEF 2003: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval
• Monolingual Experiments
• Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2003
• Océ at CLEF 2003
• Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval
• Pruning Texts with NLP and Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearch
• Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval
• Selective Compound Splitting of Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated Terms
• COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003 in the Spanish Monolingual Track
• Experiments with Self Organizing Maps in CLEF 2003
• Ricoh at CLEF 2003
• MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using Keyword Disambiguation
• II. Domain-Specific Document Retrieval
• The GIRT Data in the Evaluation of CLIR Systems - from 1997 Until 2003
• A Data-Compression Approach to the Monolingual GIRT Task: An Agnostic Point of View
• UC Berkeley at CLEF-2003 - Russian Language Experiments and Domain-Specific Retrieval
• University of Hagen at CLEF 2003: Natural Language Access to the GIRT4 Data
• III. Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval
• The CLEF 2003 Interactive Track
• iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection
• UNED at iCLEF 2003: Searching Cross-Language Summaries
• Comparing Syntactic-Semantic Patterns and Passages in Interactive Cross Language Information Access (iCLEF at University of Alicante)
• Continued Experiments on Cross-Language Relevance Assessment
• IV. Cross-Language Question Answering
• The Multiple Language Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003
• Creating the DISEQuA Corpus: A Test Set for Multilingual Question Answering
• Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
• Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
• How Frogs Built the Berlin Wall
• Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline in CLEF 2003
• Question Answering in Spanish
• Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System
• A Cross-Language Question/Answering-System for German and English
• Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2003
• V. Cross-Language Image Retrieval
• The CLEF 2003 Cross Language Image Retrieval Track
• Assessing Translation Quality for Cross Language Image Retrieval
• Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval
• Image Retrieval: The MIRACLE Approach
• Scene of Crime Information System: Playing at St. Andrews
• VI. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval
• The CLEF 2003 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
• Exeter at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments
• N-Grams for Translation and Retrieval in CL-SDR
• Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments with IR-n System
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval.