CLEF 2004: Bath, UK

• Carol Peters:
  What Happened in CLEF 2004? 1-9
  

Part I. Ad Hoc Text Retrieval Tracks

• Martin Braschler, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters:
  CLEF 2004: Ad Hoc Track Overview and Results Analysis. 10-26
  

Mainly Cross-Language Experiments

• Jacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger:
  Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval. 27-37
  
• Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Gilles Sérasset:
  Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Deviation from Randomness. 38-49
  
• Paul McNamee, James Mayfield:
  Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT at CLEF 2004. 50-59
  
• Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Nicola Orio:
  Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources. 60-72
  
• Daniel Gayo-Avello, Darío Álvarez Gutiérrez, José Gayo-Avello:
  Application of Variable Length N-Gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval. 73-82
  
• Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr:
  Integrating New Languages in a Multilingual Search System Based on a Deep Linguistic Analysis. 83-89
  
• Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol, Elisa Noguera:
  IR-n r2: Using Normalized Passages. 90-99
  
• David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George F. Foster, Claude St. Jacques:
  Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF. 100-109
  
• Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams:
  Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004. 110-122
  
• Jaap Kamps, Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Maarten de Rijke:
  Effective Translation, Tokenization and Combination for Cross-Lingual Retrieval. 123-134
  
• Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando, Kuang-Hua Chen:
  Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2004. 135-142
  
• Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren:
  Dictionary-Based Amharic - English Information Retrieval. 143-149
  
• Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Timo Järvinen, Rickard Cöster:
  Dynamic Lexica for Query Translation. 150-155
  
• Fernando Martínez Santiago, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
  SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with a Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm. 156-164
  
• René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker:
  Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim. 165-169
  
• Gina-Anne Levow, Irina Matveeva:
  University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-Language Text and Spoken Document Retrieval. 170-179
  
• Miguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth:
  UB at CLEF2004: Cross Language Information Retrieval Using Statistical Language Models. 180-187
  
• José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena:
  MIRACLE's Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information Retrieval. 188-199
  
• Fredric C. Gey:
  Searching a Russian Document Collection Using English, Chinese and Japanese Queries. 200-206
  
• Gareth J. F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Joachim Wagner:
  Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval. 207-220
  

Monolingual Experiments

• Stephen Tomlinson:
  Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer^TM at CLEF 2004. 221-232
  
• Jacques Savoy:
  Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval. 233-244
  
• Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Miguel Costa:
  The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004. 245-252
  
• Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis:
  The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier. 253-259
  

Part II. Domain-Specific Document Retrieval

• Michael Kluck:
  The Domain-Specific Track in CLEF 2004: Overview of the Results and Remarks on the Assessment Process. 260-270
  
• Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf:
  University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT Task. 271-282
  
• Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles:
  IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT Task. 283-291
  
• Yuichi Kojima:
  Ricoh at CLEF 2004. 292-297
  
• Vivien Petras:
  GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for Retrieval. 298-309
  

Part III. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

• Julio Gonzalo, Douglas W. Oard:
  iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Pilot Experiments in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering. 310-322
  
• Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo:
  Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages Versus Searching Documents. 323-333
  
• Borja Navarro, Lorenza Moreno, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo, Miguel Angel Varó:
  Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering Through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic Patterns. 334-342
  
• Preben Hansen, Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren:
  Cooperation, Bookmarking, and Thesaurus in Interactive Bilingual Question Answering. 343-347
  
• Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard:
  Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering. 348-362
  
• Carlos G. Figuerola, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana:
  Interactive and Bilingual Question Answering Using Term Suggestion and Passage Retrieval. 363-370
  

Part IV. Multiple Language Question Answering

• Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ayache, Gregor Erbach, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke, Paulo Rocha, Kiril Ivanov Simov, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe:
  Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering Track. 371-391
  
• Laura Perret:
  A Question Answering System for French. 392-403
  
• Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay, Michael Mulcahy, Aoife O'Gorman:
  Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2004. 404-410
  
• Günter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu:
  Experiments on Robust NL Question Interpretation and Multi-layered Document Annotation for a Cross-Language Question/Answering System. 411-422
  
• David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, Gilad Mishne:
  Making Stone Soup: Evaluating a Recall-Oriented Multi-stream Question Answering System for Dutch. 423-434
  
• Hristo Tanev, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, Milen Kouylekov:
  The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004. 435-445
  
• Kisuh Ahn, Beatrice Alex, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner, Matthew Smillie:
  Cross-Lingual Question Answering Using Off-the-Shelf Machine Translation. 446-457
  
• Petya Osenova, Alexander Simov, Kiril Ivanov Simov, Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov:
  Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources. 458-469
  
• Brigitte Grau, Gabriel Illouz, Laura Monceaux, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat, Guillaume Bourdil, Faiïza Elkateb-Gara, Olivier Ferret, Benoît Mathieu:
  Answering French Questions in English by Exploiting Results from Several Sources of Information. 470-481
  
• Lili Aunimo, Reeta Kuuskoski, Juha Makkonen:
  Finnish as Source Language in Bilingual Question Answering. 482-493
  
• César de Pablo-Sánchez, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Paloma Martínez, Julio Villena:
  miraQA: Experiments with Learning Answer Context Patterns from the Web. 494-501
  
• Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, Thamar Solorio, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
  Question Answering for Spanish Supported by Lexical Context Annotation. 502-511
  
• Sven Hartrumpf:
  Question Answering Using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network Matching. 512-521
  
• Luís Fernando Costa:
  First Evaluation of Esfinge - A Question Answering System for Portuguese. 522-533
  
• Paulo Quaresma, Luis Quintano, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, José Saias, Pedro Salgueiro:
  University of Évora in QA@CLEF-2004. 534-543
  
• Enrique Méndez Díaz, Jesús Vilares Ferro, David Cabrero Souto:
  COLE Experiments at QA@CLEF 2004 Spanish Monolingual Track. 544-551
  
• José Luis Vicedo González, Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Rubén Izquierdo, Fernando Llopis:
  Does English Help Question Answering in Spanish?. 552-556
  
• Daniel Ferrés, Samir Kanaan, Alicia Ageno, Edgar González, Horacio Rodríguez, Mihai Surdeanu, Jordi Turmo:
  The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF 2004: Structural and Hierarchical Relaxing of Semantic Constraints. 557-568
  
• Francesca Bertagna, Luminita Chiran, Maria Simi:
  ILC-UniPI Italian QA. 569-580
  
• Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo:
  Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004. 581-590
  
• Estela Saquete, José Luis Vicedo González, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis:
  Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QA. 591-596
  

Part V. Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections

• Paul Clough, Henning Müller, Mark Sanderson:
  The CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track. 597-613
  
• Paul Clough:
  Caption and Query Translation for Cross-Language Image Retrieval. 614-625
  
• Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, José Luis Vicedo González, Rubén Izquierdo:
  Pattern-Based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004. 626-632
  
• Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler:
  How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection Using GIFT. 633-642
  
• Víctor Peinado, Javier Artiles, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo:
  UNED at ImageCLEF 2004: Detecting Named Entities and Noun Phrases for Automatic Query Expansion and Structuring. 643-652
  
• Gareth J. F. Jones, Declan Groves, Anna Khasin, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Bart Mellebeek, Andy Way:
  Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St. Andrew's Collection. 653-663
  
• Wen-Cheng Lin, Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image Retrieval. 664-675
  
• Carmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, Jian-Yun Nie:
  Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval. 676-687
  
• Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney:
  FIRE - Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 Evaluation. 688-698
  
• José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ana García-Serrano, Julio Villena, V. Méndez-Sáenz:
  MIRACLE Approach to ImageCLEF 2004: Merging Textual and Content-Based Image Retrieval. 699-708
  
• Romaric Besançon, Patrick Hède, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, Christian Fluhr:
  Cross-Media Feedback Strategies: Merging Text and Image Information to Improve Image Retrieval. 709-717
  
• Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Patrick Ruch:
  ImageCLEF 2004: Combining Image and Multi-lingual Search for Medical Image Retrieval. 718-727
  
• Menno van Zaanen, Guido de Croon:
  Multi-modal Information Retrieval Using FINT. 728-739
  
• Peter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, Stefan M. Rüger:
  Medical Image Retrieval Using Texture, Locality and Colour. 740-749
  
• Pei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang:
  SMIRE: Similar Medical Image Retrieval Engine. 750-760
  
• Koen Lubbers, Arjen P. de Vries, Theo W. C. Huibers, Paul E. van der Vet:
  A Probabilistic Approach to Medical Image Retrieval. 761-772
  
• Miguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth:
  UB at CLEF2004 Cross Language Medical Image Retrieval. 773-780
  
• Christian Thies, Mark Oliver Güld, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas Martin Lehmann:
  Content-Based Queries on the CasImage Database Within the IRMA Framework. 781-792
  
• Pei-Cheng Cheng, Jen-Yuan Yeh, Hao-Ren Ke, Been-Chian Chien, Wei-Pang Yang:
  Comparison and Combination of Textual and Visual Features for Interactive Cross-Language Image Retrieval. 793-804
  
• Vineet Bansal, Chen Zhang, Joyce Y. Chai, Rong Jin:
  MSU at ImageCLEF: Cross Language and Interactive Image Retrieval. 805-815
  

Part VI. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval

• Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Gina-Anne Levow, Gareth J. F. Jones:
  CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track. 816-820
  

Part VII. Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

• Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha:
  The Key to the First CLEF with Portuguese: Topics, Questions and Answers in CHAVE. 821-832
  
• Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker:
  How Do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness? 833-842
  

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