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CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging
This paper describes the application of the two-step RSV and mixed two-step RSV merging methods over 8 and 4 multilingual tasks in CLEF 2003. We study their performance compared t...
Fernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo ...
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System
We describe a method for modifying a monolingual English question answering system to allow it to accept French questions. Our method relies on a statistical translation engine to ...
Luc Plamondon, George F. Foster
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The CLEF 2003 Interactive Track
The CLEF 2003 Interactive Track (iCLEF) was the third year of a shared experiment design to compare strategies for cross-language search assistance. Two kinds of experiments were p...
Douglas W. Oard, Julio Gonzalo
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
The aim of this project is the automatic conversion of query terms in one language into their equivalents in a second, historically related, language, so that documents in the sec...
Michael P. Oakes, Souvik Banerjee
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Scene of Crime Information System: Playing at St. Andrews
This paper discusses the adaptation of the Scene of Crime Information System developed within an EPSRC-funded project, to the collection of data within the ImageCLEF track of the ...
Bogdan Vrusias, Mariam Tariq, Lee Gillam
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Image Retrieval: The MIRACLE Approach
ImageCLEF is a pilot experiment run at CLEF 2003 for cross language image retrieval using textual captions related to image contents. In this paper, we describe the participation o...
Julio Villena, José Luis Martínez-Fe...
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
This paper presents the extension of the ITC-irst DIOGENE Question Answering system towards multilinguality. DIOGENE relies on a well tested three-components architecture built in...
Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev, Bernardo Magnini
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
N-Grams for Translation and Retrieval in CL-SDR
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
CLEF
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual Tracks
Abstract. For our third participation in the CLEF evaluation campaign, our objective for both multilingual tracks is to propose a new merging strategy that does not require a train...
Jacques Savoy