Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2012. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Catarci, Tiziana (Editor), Forner, Pamela (Editor), Hiemstra, Djoerd (Editor), Peñas, Anselmo (Editor), Santucci, Giuseppe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7488
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computational Linguistics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012. The 14 papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Furthermore, the books contains 2 k...

Table of Contents:

• Analysis and Refinement of Cross-Lingual Entity Linking
• Seven Years of INEX Interactive Retrieval Experiments – Lessons and Challenges
• Bringing the Algorithms to the Data: Cloud–Based Benchmarking for Medical Image Analysis
• Going beyond CLEF-IP: The ‘Reality’ for Patent Searchers?
• MusiClef: Multimodal Music Tagging Task
• Information Access Generating Pseudo Test Collections for Learning to Rank Scientific Articles
• Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study
• Cross-Language High Similarity Search Using a Conceptual Thesaurus
• The Appearance of the Giant Component in Descriptor Graphs and Its Application for Descriptor Selection
• Hidden Markov Model for Term Weighting in Verbose Queries
• Evaluation Methodologies and Infrastructure DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure
• Penalty Functions for Evaluation Measures of Unsegmented Speech Retrieval
• Cumulated Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation
• Better than Their Reputation? On the Reliability of Relevance Assessments with Students
• Comparing IR System Components Using Beanplots
• Language Independent Query Focused Snippet Generation
• A Test Collection to Evaluate Plagiarism by Missing or Incorrect References.