We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
In this study we will discuss our cross language text retrieval (CLIR) experiments of Persian ad hoc track at CLEF 2008. Two teams from University of Tehran were involved in cross...
The Visual Concept Detection Task (VCDT) of ImageCLEF 2008 is described. A database of 2,827 images were manually annotated with 17 concepts. Of these, 1,827 were used for trainin...
Our first objective in participating in this domain-specific evaluation campaign is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the German, English and Russ...
Abstract. This paper describes the experience of QAST 2008, the second time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcri...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel...