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CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Creating a Persian-English Comparable Corpus
Multilingual corpora are valuable resources for cross-language information retrieval and are available in many language pairs. However the Persian language does not have rich multi...
Homa Baradaran Hashemi, Azadeh Shakery, Heshaam Fe...
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Overview of ResPubliQA 2010: Question Answering Evaluation over European Legislation
This paper describes the second round of ResPubliQA, a Question Answering (QA) evaluation task over European legislation, a LAB of CLEF 2010. Two tasks have been proposed this year...
Anselmo Peñas, Pamela Forner, Álvaro...
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Random Sampling Image to Class Distance for Photo Annotation
Image classification or annotation is proved difficult for the computer algorithms. The Naive-Bayes Nearest Neighbor method is proposed to tackle the problem, and achieved the stat...
Deyuan Zhang, Bingquan Liu, Chengjie Sun, Xiaolong...
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Person Attribute Extraction from the Textual Parts of Web Pages
We present the RGAI systems which participated in the third Web People Search Task challenge. The chief characteristics of our approach are that we focus on the raw textual parts o...
István Nagy, Richárd Farkas
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Overview of the Cross-lingual Expert Search (CriES) Pilot Challenge
Philipp Sorg, Philipp Cimiano, Antje Schultz, Serg...
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Ambiguity of Queries and the Challenges for Query Language Detection
In this paper, a sample set of 510 simple searches from the TEL action log 2009 is analyzed for query content and query language. More than half of the queries are for named entiti...
Juliane Stiller, Maria Gäde, Vivien Petras
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Predicting escalations of medical queries based on web page structure and content
Logs of users' searches on Web health topics can exhibit signs of escalation of medical concerns, where initial queries about common symptoms are followed by queries about se...
Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Estimating interference in the QPRP for subtopic retrieval
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Claudia Hauff, Keith...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Retrieval system evaluation: automatic evaluation versus incomplete judgments
In information retrieval (IR), research aiming to reduce the cost of retrieval system evaluations has been conducted along two lines: (i) the evaluation of IR systems with reduced...
Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong