Our approach to the Log Analysis for Digital Societies (LADS) task of LogCLEF 2009 is to define three different levels of performance: success, failure and strong failure. To inve...
This paper describes our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval with the Wikipedia collection in the context of our participation in the GikiCLEF 2009 Multilingual task...
At CLEF 2009 the University of Hildesheim focused on the main task of the Intellectual Property Track which aims at finding prior art for a specified patent [cf. Information Retri...
Daniela Becks, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
In this study, we describe our system at the Intellectual Property track of the 2009 CrossLanguage Evaluation Forum campaign (CLEF-IP). The CLEF-IP track addressed prior art searc...
In biological sequence processing, Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) techniques capture information about long-distance dependencies and the three-dimensional structure of protein ...
We propose a method for providing stochastic confidence estimates for rule-based and black-box natural language (NL) processing systems. Our method does not require labeled trainin...
Christian Monson, Kristy Hollingshead, Brian Roark
This paper describes the participation of LIG lab, in the batch filtering task for the INFILE (INformation FILtering Evaluation) campaign of CLEF 2009. As opposed to the online ta...