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 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Peters, Carol (Editor), Clough, Paul (Editor), Gonzalo, Julio (Editor), Jones, Gareth J. F. (Editor), Kluck, Michael (Editor), Magnini, Bernardo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3491
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Language Translation and Linguistics.

The ?fth campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for Eu- pean languages was held from January to September 2004. Participation in the CLEF campaigns has increased each year and CLEF 2004 was no exception: 55 groups submitted results for one or more of the di?erent tracks compared with...

Table of Contents:

• What Happened in CLEF 2004?
• I. Ad Hoc Text Retrieval Tracks
• II. Domain-Specific Document Retrieval
• III. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval
• IV. Multiple Language Question Answering
• V. Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections
• VI. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval
• VII. Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation.