CLEF 2003: Trondheim, Norway
Carol Peters, Julio Gonzalo, Martin Braschler, Michael Kluck (Eds.): Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected Papers. Springer 2004 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-24017-9

Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker: Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum. 21-28
Noriko Kando: Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at the NTCIR Workshop. 29-43
Ad-hoc Text Retrieval Tracks
Martin Braschler: CLEF 2003 - Overview of Results. 44-63
Mainly Cross-Language Experiments
Jacques Savoy: Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual Tracks. 64-73
Eija Airio, Heikki Keskustalo, Turid Hedlund, Ari Pirkola: The Impact of Word Normalization Methods and Merging Strategies on Multilingual IR. 74-84
Nicola Cancedda, Hervé Déjean, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Michel Renders, Alexei Vinokourov: Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora. 98-107
Aitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey: Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval. 108-121
Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang: Multilingual Information Retrieval Using Open, Transparent Resources in CLEF 2003. 133-139
Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico: ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Information Retrieval. 140-151
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson: Language-Dependent and Language-Independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval. 152-165
René Hackl, Ralph Kölle, Thomas Mandl, Alexandra Ploedt, Jan-Hendrik Scheufen, Christa Womser-Hacker: Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim. 166-173
Romaric Besançon, Gaël de Chalendar, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr, Olivier Mesnard, Hubert Naets: Concept-Based Searching and Merging for Multilingual Information Retrieval: First Experiments at CLEF 2003. 174-184
Miguel E. Ruiz: CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB: Automatically Generated Phrases and Relevance Feedback for Improving CLIR. 185-191
Fernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano: SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging. 192-201
José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena, Jorge Fombella, Ana García-Serrano, Paloma Martínez, José M. Goñi, José Carlos González: MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Baseline for Future Research. 210-219
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio: Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word Translation. 220-235
Gilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet: Simple Translations of Monolingual Queries Expanded Through an Association Thesaurus: X-IOTA IR System Used for CLIPS Bilingual Experiments. 242-252
Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando: Two-Stage Refinement of Query Translation in a Pivot Language Approach to Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2003. 253-262
Michael P. Oakes, Souvik Banerjee: Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval. 263-270
Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones: Exeter at CLEF 2003: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval. 271-285
Monolingual Experiments
Stephen Tomlinson: Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2003. 286-300
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano: Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval. 310-318
Gil Francopoulo: Pruning Texts with NLP and Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearch. 319-321
Jacques Savoy: Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval. 322-336
Rickard Cöster, Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren: Selective Compound Splitting of Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated Terms. 337-344
Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, Francisco J. Ribadas: COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003 in the Spanish Monolingual Track. 345-357
Javier Fernández, Ricardo Mones, Irene Díaz, José Ranilla, Elías F. Combarro: Experiments with Self Organizing Maps in CLEF 2003. 358
Peter van der Weerd: MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using Keyword Disambiguation. 373-375
Domain-Specific Document Retrieval
Michael Kluck: The GIRT Data in the Evaluation of CLIR Systems - from 1997 Until 2003. 376-390
Daniela Alderuccio, Luciana Bordoni, Vittorio Loreto: A Data-Compression Approach to the Monolingual GIRT Task: An Agnostic Point of View. 391-400
Vivien Petras, Natalia Perelman, Fredric C. Gey: UC Berkeley at CLEF-2003 - Russian Language Experiments and Domain-Specific Retrieval. 401-411
Johannes Leveling: University of Hagen at CLEF 2003: Natural Language Access to the GIRT4 Data. 412-424
Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval

Bonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard, Richard M. Schwartz, Jianqiang Wang, David M. Zajic: iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection. 435-449
Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo: UNED at iCLEF 2003: Searching Cross-Language Summaries. 450-461
Jussi Karlgren, Preben Hansen: Continued Experiments on Cross-Language Relevance Assessment. 468-470
Cross-Language Question Answering
Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo, Maarten de Rijke: The Multiple Language Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003. 471-486
Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo, Maarten de Rijke: Creating the DISEQuA Corpus: A Test Set for Multilingual Question Answering. 487-500
Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev, Bernardo Magnini: Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003. 501-513
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu, Ulf Hermjakob: Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute. 514-522
Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke: How Frogs Built the Berlin Wall: A Detailed Error Analysis of a Question Answering System for Dutch. 523-534
Lucian Vlad Lita, Monica Rogati, Jaime G. Carbonell: Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline in CLEF 2003. 535-540
José Luis Vicedo González, Rubén Izquierdo, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz: Question Answering in Spanish. 541-548
Luc Plamondon, George F. Foster: Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System. 549-558
Günter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu: A Cross-Language Question/Answering-System for German and English. 559-571
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay, Aoife O'Gorman: Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2003. 572-580
Cross-Language Image Retrieval

Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson: Assessing Translation Quality for Cross Language Image Retrieval. 594-610
Wen-Cheng Lin, Changhua Yang, Hsin-Hsi Chen: Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval. 611-620
Julio Villena, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Jorge Fombella, Ana García-Serrano, Alberto Ruiz-Cristina, Paloma Martínez, José M. Goñi, José Carlos González: Image Retrieval: The MIRACLE Approach. 621-630
Bogdan Vrusias, Mariam Tariq, Lee Gillam: Scene of Crime Information System: Playing at St. Andrews. 631-645
Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval
Marcello Federico, Gareth J. F. Jones: The CLEF 2003 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track. 646
Gareth J. F. Jones, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina: Exeter at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments. 653-657
Fernando Llopis, Patricio Martínez-Barco: Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments with IR-n System. 664-671
Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico: ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval. 672-675



