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CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A First Approach to CLIR Using Character N -Grams Alignment
Abstract. This paper describes the technique for translation of character n-grams we developed for our participation in CLEF 2006. This solution avoids the need for word normalizat...
Jesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
ImageCLEF 2006 Experiments at the Chemnitz Technical University
We present a report about our participation in the ImageCLEF photo task 2006 and a short description of our new framework for future use in further CLEF participations....
Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
GIR Experimentation
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) community has generally accepted the thesis that both thematic and geographic aspect of documents may be useful for GIR. This paper describe...
Geoffrey Andogah
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
GeoCLEF 2006: The CLEF 2006 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview
After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information ret...
Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Ker...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Paraphrase Substitution for Recognizing Textual Entailment
We describe a method for recognizing textual entailment that uses the length of the longest common subsequence (LCS) between two texts as its decision criterion. Rather than requi...
Wauter Bosma, Chris Callison-Burch
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Entailment-Based Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2006
This year, besides providing support to other groups participating in cross-language Question Answering (QA) tasks, and submitting runs both for the monolingual Italian and the cr...
Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, B...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Vocabulary Reduction and Text Enrichment at WebCLEF
Nowadays, cross-lingual Information Retrieval (IR) is one of the greatest challenges to deal with. Besides, one of the most important issues in IR consists in the corpus vocabular...
Franco Rojas López, Héctor Jim&eacut...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Overview of the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006
We describe WiQA 2006, a pilot task aimed at studying question answering using Wikipedia. Going beyond traditional factoid questions, the task considered at WiQA 2006 was to return...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006
This paper details the participation of the XLDB group from the University of Lisbon at the GeoCLEF task of CLEF 2006. We tested text mining methods that make use of an ontology t...
Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
CLEF-2006 CL-SR at Maryland: English and Czech
The University of Maryland participated in the English and Czech tasks. For English, one monolingual run using only fields based on fully automatic transcription (the required con...
Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard