Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Peters, Carol (Editor), Deselaers, Thomas (Editor), Ferro, Nicola (Editor), Gonzalo, Julio (Editor), Jones, Gareth J. F. (Editor), Kurimo, Mikko (Editor), Mandl, Thomas (Editor), Peñas, Anselmo (Editor), Petras, Vivien (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5706
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

The ninth campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to September 2008. There were seven main eval- tion tracks in CLEF 2008 plus two pilot tasks. The aim, as usual, was to test the p- formance of a wide range of multilingual information acces...

Table of Contents:

• What Happened in CLEF 2008
• I: Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)
• TEL@CLEF
• Persian@CLEF
• Robust-WSD
• Ad Hoc Mixed: TEL and Persian
• II: Mono- and Cross-Language Scientific Data Retrieval (Domain-Specific)
• III: Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval (iCLEF)
• IV: Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)
• Mono and Bilingual QA
• Answer Validation Exercise (AVE)
• Question Answering on Script Transcription (QAST)
• V: Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
• ImageCLEFphoto
• ImageCLEFmed
• ImageCLEFWiki
• VI: Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)
• VII: Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
• VIII: Cross-Language Video Retrieval (VideoCLEF)
• IX: Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF)
• X: Morpho Challenge at CLEF 2008.