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CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Methods for Combining Content-Based and Textual-Based Approaches in Medical Image Retrieval
This paper describes our participation in the Medical Image Retrieval task of Image CLEF 2008. Our aim was to evaluate different combination methods for purely textual and visual ...
Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Bough...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Answer Validation on English and Romanian Languages
The present article presents the steps involved in the transformation of the TE system that was used in the RTE3 competition in 2007 for the AVE 2008 exercise. We describe the rule...
Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008
We describe our participation in Multilingual Question Answering at CLEF 2008 using German and English as our source and target languages respectively. The system was built using ...
Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Josef van Genabith
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Term Co-occurrence for Enhancing Automated Image Annotation
This paper describes an application of statistical co-occurrence techniques that built on top of a probabilistic image annotation framework is able to increase the precision of an ...
Ainhoa Llorente, Simon E. Overell, Haiming Liu 000...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
UJM at ImageCLEFwiki 2008
This paper reports our multimedia information retrieval experiments carried out for the ImageCLEF track (ImageCLEFwiki). The task is to answer to user information needs, i.e. quer...
Christophe Moulin, Cécile Barat, Mathias G&...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval
Abstract. We present a method that uses GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval. During the indexing phase, all places are disambiguated and assigned their coordinates on...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Overview of the Clef 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track
The QA campaign at CLEF [1], was manly the same as that proposed last year. The results and the analyses reported by last year's participants suggested that the changes introd...
Pamela Forner, Anselmo Peñas, Eneko Agirre,...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugén...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Logic and Machine Learning for Answering Questions
Abstract. LogAnswer is a logic-oriented question answering system developed by the AI research group at the University of Koblenz-Landau and by the IICS at the University of Hagen....
Ingo Glöckner, Björn Pelzer