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CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our objective was to verify whether our combined query translation approach would work well with new requests and new...
Jacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list and a light stemming procedure for the Port...
Jacques Savoy
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?
Named entities in topics are a major factor contributing to the quality of retrieval results. In this paper, we report on an analysis on the correlation between the number of named...
Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track
Following the pilot Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003, a new evaluation exercise for multilingual QA systems took place in 2004. This paper reports on the novelties introduced...
Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ay...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages
This paper describes the fourth participation of IR-n system (Alicante University) at CLEF conferences. At present conference, we have modified the similarity measure and the que...
Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Te...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier
This paper describes our participation in the CLEF 2004 French monolingual task. We used our Terrier Information Retrieval platform and experimented with query expansion and query...
Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval
The Question Answering Task requires user interaction. Users can help the system by reformulating the questions, adding information to them or selecting the documents on which the ...
Carlos G. Figuerola, Ángel F. Zazo Rodr&iac...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
This is a summary report about the Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track held at CLEF 2004. The report gives brief details of CL-SDR task based again this year on the TRE...
Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Gina-Anne Levo...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
FIRE - Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation
In this paper we present FIRE, a content-based image retrieval system and the methods we used in the ImageCLEF 2004 evaluation. In FIRE, different features are available to repre...
Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney