A Pilot Question Answering Task has been activated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 with a twofold objective. In the first place, the evaluation of Question Answering ...
Abstract. This paper describes an experimental investigation of interactive techniques for cross-language information access. The task was to answer factual questions from a large ...
Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...
This paper describes our participation to the monolingual English GIRT task. The main objectives of our experiments were to evaluate the use of Mercure IRS (designed at IRIT/SIG) o...
In this year’s participation we continued to evaluate open source information retrieval software. We used mainly the system Lucene and experimented with some of the most effecti...
Abstract. In this report, we describe our studies with cross language and interactive image retrieval in ImageCLEF 2004. Typical cross language retrieval requires special linguisti...
Vineet Bansal, Chen Zhang, Joyce Y. Chai, Rong Jin
We present two approaches to the Amharic – English bilingual track in CLEF 2004. Both experiments use a dictionary based approach to translate the Amharic queries into English B...
This report describes the approach used in our participation of ImageCLEF. Our focus is on image retrieval using text, i.e. Cross-Media IR. To do this, we first determine the str...
Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, J...
In this paper, we explore the help of visual features to cross-language image retrieval. We propose an approach that transforms textual queries into visual representations. The re...