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CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004
A Pilot Question Answering Task has been activated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 with a twofold objective. In the first place, the evaluation of Question Answering ...
Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering
Abstract. This paper describes an experimental investigation of interactive techniques for cross-language information access. The task was to answer factual questions from a large ...
Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task
This paper describes our participation to the monolingual English GIRT task. The main objectives of our experiments were to evaluate the use of Mercure IRS (designed at IRIT/SIG) o...
Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussena...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim
In this year’s participation we continued to evaluate open source information retrieval software. We used mainly the system Lucene and experimented with some of the most effecti...
René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Ha...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
MSU at ImageCLEF: Cross Language and Interactive Image Retrieval
Abstract. In this report, we describe our studies with cross language and interactive image retrieval in ImageCLEF 2004. Typical cross language retrieval requires special linguisti...
Vineet Bansal, Chen Zhang, Joyce Y. Chai, Rong Jin
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Dictionary-Based Amharic - English Information Retrieval
We present two approaches to the Amharic – English bilingual track in CLEF 2004. Both experiments use a dictionary based approach to translate the Amharic queries into English B...
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöst...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval
This report describes the approach used in our participation of ImageCLEF. Our focus is on image retrieval using text, i.e. Cross-Media IR. To do this, we first determine the str...
Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, J...
CLEF
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image Retrieval
In this paper, we explore the help of visual features to cross-language image retrieval. We propose an approach that transforms textual queries into visual representations. The re...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen