CLEF 2003
CLEF2003 Working Notes

Table of Contents

Preface

• Introduction
  Carol Peters

Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections

• The CLEF 2003 Cross Language Image Retrieval Task
  Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
• Sheffield at ImageCLEF 2003
  Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
• Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval
  Wen-Cheng Lin, Changhua Yang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
• MIRACLE Evaluation of Results for ImageCLEF 2003
  Julio Villena Román, José Luis Martínez, Jorge Fombella, Ana G. Serrano, Alberto Ruiz, Paloma Martínez, José M. Goñi, José C. González
• Scene of Crime Information System: Playing at St. Andrews
  Bogdan Vrusias, Mariam Tariq, Lee Gillam

Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval

• The CLEF 2003 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
  Marcello Federico, Gareth Jones
• Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments with IR-n System
  Fernando Llopis, Patricio Martínez-Barco
• EXETER at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments
  Adenike Lam-Adesina, Gareth Jones

Mono- and Cross-Language IR for Scientific Collections

• UC Berkeley at CLEF 2003 - Russian Language Experiments and Domain-Specific Cross-Language Retrieval
  Vivine Petras, Natalia Perelman, Fredric Gey
• Data Compression Approach to Monolingual GIRT Task: an Agnostic Point of View
  Daniela Alderuccio, Luciana Bordoni, Vittorio Loreto
• University of Hagen at CLEF 2003: Natural Language Access to the GIRT4 Data
  Johannes Leveling

Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

• The CLEF 2003 Interactive Track
  Douglas W. Oard, Julio Gonzalo
• iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection
  Bonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard, Richard Schwartz, Jianqiang Wang, David Zajic
• UNED at iCLEF 2003: Searching Cross-Language Summaries
  Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo
• Comparing Syntactic Semantic Patterns and Passages in Interactive Cross Language Information Access (iCLEF at University of Alicante)
  Borja Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Miguel Ángel Varó

Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval

• Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual Tracks
  Jacques Savoy
• Multilingual Experiments of UTA at CLEF 2003: The Impact of Different Merging Strategies and Word Normalizing Tools
  Eija Airio, Heikki Keskustalo, Turid Hedlund, Ari Pirkola
• JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-Word Translation
  Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
• Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora
  Nicola Cancedda, Hervé Déjean, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Michel Renders, Alexei Vinokourov
• Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval
  Aitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey
• Cross-Language Experiments with IR-n System
  Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz
• CONTROL: CLEF-2003 with Open, Transparent Resources Off-Line
  Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Information Retrieval
  Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico
• The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2003
  Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
• Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim
  René Hackl, Ralph Kölle, Thomas Mandl, Alexandra Ploedt, Jan-Hendrik Scheufen, Christa Womser-Hacker
• The LIC2M's CLEF 2003 System
  Romaric Besançon, Gaël de Chalendar, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr, Olivier Mesnard, Hubert Naets
• Report on CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB
  Miguel E. Ruiz
• SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging
  Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, L.Alfonso Ureña-López, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano
• Merging Results by Using Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
  Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
• Evaluation of MIRACLE Approach Results for CLEF 2003
  José Luis Martínez, Julio Villena Román, Jorge Fombella, Ana G. Serrano, Alberto Ruiz, Paloma Martínez, José M. Goñi, José C. González
• Clairvoyance CLEF-2003 Experiments
  Yan Qu, Greg Grefenstette, David A. Evans
• Two Stages Refinement of Query Translation for Pivot Language Approach to Cross Lingual Information Retrieval: A Trial at CLEF 2003
  Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando
• Regular Sound Changes for Cross-language Information Retrieval
  Michael P Oakes, Souvik Banerjee
• EXETER at CLEF 2003: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval
  Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F.Jones
• Multilingual Retrieval in Twente
  Franciska de Jong, Dennis Reidsma, Djoerd Hiemstra
• Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2003
  Stephen Tomlinson
• Océ at CLEF 2003
  Roel Brand, Marvin Brünner, Samuel Driessen, Pascha Iljin, Jakob Klok
• Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval
  Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
• Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval
  Jacques Savoy
• Pruning Texts with NLP and Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearch
  Gil Francopoulo
• Selective Compound Splitting of Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated Terms
  Rickard Cöster, Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren
• COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003: Spanish Monolingual Track
  Jesús Villares, Miguel A. Alonso, Francisco J. Ribadas
• Ricoh at CLEF 2003
  Yuichi Kojima, Hideo Itoh, Hiroko Mano, Yasushi Ogawa
• The University of Padova at CLEF 2003: Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word Translation
  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio
• Clustering and Retrieval of Spanish News Documents Using Self Organizing Maps
  Javier Fernández, Ricardo Mones, Irene Díaz, José Ranilla, Elías F. Combarro
• MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using Keyword Disambiguation
  Peter van der Weerd

Multiple Language Question Answering

• The Multiple Language Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003
  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
  Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo, Maarten de Rijke
• Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
  Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev, Bernardo Magnini
• Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
  Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu, Ulf Hermjakob
• The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF2003
  Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke
• Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline
  Lucian Vlad Lita, Monica Rogati, Jaime Carbonell
• Question Answering in Spanish
  José L. Vicedo, Ruben Izquierdo, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz
• Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System
  Luc Plamondon, George Foster
• A Cross-Language Question/Answering-System for German and English
  Günter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu
• Cross-Language French-English Question Answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2003
  Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay, Aoife O'Gorman

Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

• Proper Names in the Multilingual CLEF Topic Set
  Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
• Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at NTCIR Workshop
  Noriko Kando

Appendix

• Appendix A: Question Answering Run Statistics
  
• Appendix B: Results for Core Tracks