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CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Providing Multilingual Access to FLICKR for Arabic Users
In this paper we describe our submission for iCLEF2006: an interface that allows users to search FLICKR in Arabic for images with captions in a range of languages. We report and di...
Paul Clough, Azzah Al-Maskari, Kareem Darwish
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
N -Gram vs. Keyword-Based Passage Retrieval for Question Answering
In this paper we describe the participation of the Universidad Polit
Davide Buscaldi, José Manuel Gómez S...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A WordNet-Based Indexing Technique for Geographical Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper presents an indexing technique based on WordNet synonyms and holonyms. This technique has been developed for the Geographical Information Retrieval task. It ma...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Bag-of-Words Based Ranking Method for the Wikipedia Question Answering Task
This paper presents a simple approach to the Wikipedia Question Answering pilot task in CLEF 2006. The approach ranks the snippets, retrieved using the Lucene search engine, by mea...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using Syntactic Knowledge for QA
We describe the system of the University of Groningen for the monolingual Dutch and multilingual English to Dutch QA tasks. First, we give a brief outline of the architecture of ou...
Gosse Bouma, Ismail Fahmi, Jori Mur, Gertjan van N...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
XML Information Retrieval from Spoken Word Archives
In this paper the XML Information Retrieval System PF/Tijah is applied to retrieval tasks on large spoken document collections. The used example setting is the English CLEF-2006 CL...
Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Roeland Ordelman, Laur...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Scientific Data of an Evaluation Campaign: Do We Properly Deal with Them?
Abstract. This paper examines the current way of keeping the data produced during the evaluation campaigns and highlights some shortenings of it. As a consequence, we propose a new...
Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola...
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