CLEF 2008
CLEF2008 Working Notes

Table of Contents

Preface

• What happened in CLEF 2008: Introduction to the Working Notes
  Carol Peters

Cross-Language Geographical Information Retrieval

• GeoCLEF 2008: the CLEF 2008 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview
  Thomas Mandl, Paula Carvalho, Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker
• Multi-lingual Geographical Information Retrieval
  Rocio Guillén
• Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2008: Text and Fusion Approaches for GIR
  Ray R. Larson
• MMIS at GeoCLEF 2008: Experiments in GIR
  Simon Overell, Adam Rae, Stefan Rüger
• University of Pittsburgh at GeoCLEF 2008: Towards Effective Geographic Information Retrieval
  Qiang Pu, Daqing He, Qi Li
• University of Hagen at GeoCLEF 2008: Combining IR and QA for Geographic Information Retrieval
  Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf
• SINAI-GIR System. University of Jaén at GeoCLEF 2008
  José M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel A. García-Cumbreras, Manuel García-Vega, L. Alfonso Ureña-López
• The UPV at GeoCLEF 2008: The GeoWorSE System
  D.Buscaldi, P.Rosso
• TextMESS at GeoCLEF 2008: Result Merging with Fuzzy Borda Ranking
  J.M. Perea-Ortega, L.A. Ureña-López, D. Buscaldi, P. Rosso
• INAOE at GeoCLEF 2008: A Ranking Approach based on Sample Documents
  Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseor-Pineda
• Ontology-based Query Construction for GeoCLEF
  Rui Wang, Günter Neumann
• The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2008
  Nuno Cardoso, Patrícia Sousa, Mário J. Silva
• Getting Geographical Answers fromWikipedia: the GikiP pilot at CLEF
  Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso, Paula Carvalho, Iustin Dornescu, Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling, Yvonne Skalban

Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections

• Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2008 Photographic Retrieval Task
  Thomas Arni, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Michael Grubinger
• Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2008 Medical Image Retrieval Task
  Henning Müller, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Charles E. Kahn Jr., William Hatt, Steven Bedrick, William Hersh
• Medical Image Annotation in ImageCLEF 2008
  Thomas Deselaers, Thomas M. Deserno
• The Visual Concept Detection Task in ImageCLEF 2008
  Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury
• Overview of the wikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2008
  Theodora Tsikrika, Jana Kludas
• Meiji University at ImageCLEF2008 Photo Retrieval Task: Evaluation of Image Retrieval Methods Integrating Different Media
  Kosuke Yamauchi, Takuya Nomura, Keiko Usui, Yusuke Kamoi, Miki Eto, Tomohiro Takagi
• LIG at ImageCLEFphoto 2008
  Philippe Mulhem
• Building a Diversity Featured Search System by Fusing Existing Tools
  Jiayu Tang, Thomas Arni, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough
• TELECOMParisTech at ImageClefphoto 2008: Bi-Modal Text and Image Retrieval with Diversity Enhancement
  Marin Ferecatu, Hichem Sahbi
• MIRACLE-FI at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: Experiences in merging Text-based and Content-based Retrievals
  R. Granados, X. Benavent, A. García-Serrano, J.M. Goñi
• MIRACLE-GSI at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: Experiments on Semantic and Statistical Topic Expansion
  Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José C. González-Cristóbal
• UPMC/LIP6 at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: on the Exploitation of Visual Concepts (VCDT)
  Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari
• Consortium AVEIR at ImageCLEFphoto 2008: on the Fusion of Runs
  Sabrina Tollari, Marcin Detyniecki, Marin Ferecatu, Hervé Glotin, Philippe Mulhem, Massih-Reza Amini, Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Patrick Gallinari, Hichem Sahbi, Zhong-Qiu Zhao
• Feature Annotation for Visual Concept Detection in ImageCLEF 2008
  Jingtian Jiang, Xiaoguang Rui, Nenghai Yu
• Targeting Diversity in Photographic Retrieval Task with Commonsense Knowledge
  Supheakmungkol Sarin, Wataru Kameyama
• Clustering for Photo Retrieval at Image CLEF 2008
  Diana Inkpen, Marc Stogaitis, François DeGuire, Muath Alzghool
• SINAI at ImageCLEFPhoto 2008
  M.A. García-Cumbreras, M.C. Díaz-Galiano, M.T. Martín-Valdivia, L.A. Ureña-López
• IPAL at CLEF 2008: Mixed-Modality based Image Search, Novelty based Re-ranking and Extended Matching
  Sheng Gao, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim
• TIA-INAOE Participation at ImageCLEF 2008
  H. Jair Escalante, J. A. González, Carlos A. Hernández, Aurelio López, Manuel Montes, Eduardo Morales, Luis E. Sucar, Luis Villaseñor
• Effects of Visual Concept-based Post-retrieval Clustering in ImageCLEFphoto 2008
  Masashi Inoue, Piyush Grover
• The Xtrieval Framework at CLEF 2008: ImageCLEF Photographic Retrieval Task
  Thomas Wilhelm, Jens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl
• Different Multimodal Approaches using IR-n in ImageCLEFphoto 2008
  Sergio Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz
• Text-mess in the ImageCLEFphoto08 Task
  S. Navarro, M.A. García, F. Llopis, M.C. Díaz, R. Muñoz, M.T. Martín, L.A. Ureña, A. Montejo
• XRCE's Participation to ImageCLEF 2008
  J. Ah-Pine, C. Cifarelli, S. Clinchant, G. Csurka, J.M. Renders
• CLaC at ImageCLEFPhoto 2008
  Osama El Demerdash, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler
• Increasing Relevance and Diversity in Photo Retrieval by Result Fusion
  Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
• DCU at ImageCLEFPhoto 2008
  Neil O'Hare, Peter Wilkins, Cathal Gurrin, Eamonn Newman, Gareth J.F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton.
• SZTAKI @ ImageCLEF 2008: Visual Concept Detection
  Bálint Daróczy, Zsolt Fekete, Mátyás Brendel
• Profil Entropic Visual Features for Visual Concept Detection in CLEF 2008 Campaign
  Herve Glotin, Zhongqiu Zhao
• MMIS at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments combining Different Evidence Sources
  Simon Overell, Ainhoa Llorente, Haiming Liu, Rui Hu, Adam Rae, Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Stefan Rüger
• Affinity Propagation promoting Diversity in Visuo-entropic and Text Features for CLEF Photo Retrieval 2008 Campaign
  Herve Glotin, Zhongqiu Zhao
• CLEF2008 Image Annotation Task: an SVM Confidence-Based Approach
  Tatiana Tommasi, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo
• Multi-Relation Modeling on Multi Concept Extraction LIG participation at ImageClefMed
  Loïc Maisonnasse, Eric Gaussier, Jean-Pierre Chevallet
• MedGIFT at ImageCLEF 2008
  Xin Zhou, Julien Gobeill, Henning Müller
• MIRACLE at ImageCLEFmed 2008: Evaluating Strategies for Automatic Topic Expansion
  Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José C. González-Cristóbal
• MIRACLE at ImageCLEFannot 2008: Classification of Image Features for Medical Image Annotation
  Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González-Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo
• Automatic System for Extraction of Content-Based Characteristics from Digital Images
  Gonzalo León, José Luis Delgado, Covadonga Rodrigo, Fernando López, Valentín Sama
• SINAI at ImageCLEFmed 2008
  M.C. Díaz-Galiano, M.A. García-Cumbreras, M.T. Martín-Valdivia, L.A. Ureña-López, A. Montejo-Ráez
• TAU MIPLAB at ImageClef 2008
  U. Avni, J. Goldberger, H. Greenspan
• Text-only Cross-language Image Search at Medical ImageCLEF 2008
  Julien Gobeill, Patrick Ruch, Xin Zhou
• Multimodal Medical Image Retrieval: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2008
  Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Steven Bedrick, William Hatt, William Hersh
• Methods for combining Content-based and Textual-based Approaches in Medical Image Retrieval
  Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem
• A Multimodal Approach to the Medical Retrieval Task using IR-n
  Sergio Navarro, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis
• Text-mess in the Medical Retrieval ImageCLEF08 Task
  S. Navarro, M.C. Díaz, R. Muñoz, M.A. García, F. Llopis, M.T. Martín, L.A. Ureña, A. Montejo
• Baseline Results for the CLEF 2008 Medical Automatic Annotation Task
  Mark O. Güld, Thomas M. Deserno
• UPMC/LIP6 at ImageCLEF's WikipediaMM: An Image-Annotation Model for an Image Search-Engine
  Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Massih-Reza Amini, Sabrina Tollari, Patrick Gallinari
• CWI at ImageCLEF 2008
  Theodora Tsikrika, Henning Rode, Arjen P. de Vries
• Some Experiments on the WikipediaMM 2008 task: Evaluating the Impact of Image names in Context-based Retrieval
  Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem
• The Xtrieval Framework at CLEF 2008: ImageCLEF Wikipedia MM task
  Thomas Wilhelm, Jens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl
• PKU at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments with Query Extension Techniques for Text-Based and Content-Based Image Retrieval
  Zhi Zhou, Yonghong Tian, Yuanning Li, Ting Liu, Tiejun Huang, Wen Gao
• A Textual Approach Based on Passages Using IR-n in WikipediaMM Task 2008
  Sergio Navarro, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis
• Increasing Cluster Recall of Cross-modal Image Retrieval
  Simon Rácz, Bálint Daróczy, Dávid Siklósi, Attila Pereszlényi, Mátyás Brendel, András Benczúr
• Conceptual Image Retrieval over the Wikipedia Corpus
  Adrian Popescu, Hervé Le Borgne, Pierre-Alain Moëllic
• Concept Content Based Wikipedia WEB Image Retrieval using CLEF VCDT 2008
  Zhongqiu Zhao, Herve Glotin
• UJM at ImageCLEFwiki 2008
  Christophe Moulin, Cécile Barat, Mathias Géry, Christophe Ducottet, Christine Largeron

Cross-Language Video Retrieval

• Overview of VideoCLEF 2008: Automatic Generation of Topic-based Feeds for Dual Language Audio-Visual Content
  Martha Larson, Eamonn Newman, Gareth Jones
• MIRACLE at VideoCLEF 2008: Classification of Multilingual Speech Transcripts
  Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano
• DCU at VideoCLEF 2008
  Eamonn Newman, Gareth Jones
• SINAI at VideoCLEF 2008
  José M. Perea-Ortega, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Manuel C. Díaz-Galiano, L. Alfonso Ureña-López
• The University of Amsterdam at VideoCLEF 2008
  Jiyin He Xu Zhang, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson
• VideoCLEF 2008: ASR Classification based on Wikipedia Categories
  Jens Kürsten, Daniel Richter, Maximilian Eibl

Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

• Overview of iCLEF 2008: Search Log Analysis for Multilingual Image Retrieval
  Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Jussi Karlgren
• FlickLing: a Multilingual Search Interface for Flickr
  Víctor Peinado, Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Emma Barker, Fernando López-Ostenero
• "Interactive" Undergraduate Students: UNIPD at iCLEF 2008
  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
• A Study of Users Image Seeking Behaviour in Flickling
  Evgenia Vassilakaki, Frances Johnson, R.J. Hartley, David Randall
• Mining the Behaviour of Users in a Multilingual Information Access Task
  Srinivasarao Vundavalli
• Evaluating the Impact of Personal Dictionaries for Cross-Language Information Retrieval of Socially Annotated Images
  Diana Irina Tanase, Epaminondas Kapetanios
• UNED at iCLEF 2008: Analysis of a Large Log of Multilingual Image Searches in Flickr
  Víctor Peinado, Julio Gonzalo, Javier Artiles, Fernando López-Ostenero
• SICS at iCLEF 2008: User Confidence and Satisfaction inferred from iCLEF Logs
  Jussi Karlgren

Domain-Specific Information Retrieval

• The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2008
  Vivien Petras, Stefan Baerisch
• UniNE at Domain-Specific IR - CLEF 2008: Scientific Data Retrieval: Various Query Expansion Approaches
  Claire Fautsch, Ljiljana Dolamic, Jacques Savoy
• Back to Basics - Again - for Domain Specific Retrieval
  Ray R. Larson
• First Participation of University and Hospitals of Geneva to Domain-Specific Track in CLEF 2008
  Julien Gobeill, Patrick Ruch
• The University of Amsterdam at the CLEF 2008 Domain Specific Track: Parsimonious Relevance and Concept Models
  Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke
• The Xtrieval Framework at CLEF 2008: Domain-Specific Track
  Jens Kürsten, Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl
• Using Wikipedia and Wiktionary in Domain-Specific Information Retrieval
  Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych

Multilingual Document Retrieval

• CLEF 2008: Ad Hoc Track Overview
  Eneko Agirre, Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters
• Logistic Regression for Metadata: Cheshire takes on AdHoc-TEL
  Ray R. Larson
• CACAO Project at the TEL@CLEF 2008 Task
  Alessio Bosca, Luca Dini
• Technical University of Lisbon CLEF 2008 Submission: TEL@CLEF Monolingual Task
  Jorge Machado, Bruno Martins, José Borbinha
• WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-lingual Information Retrieval using only Wikipedia
  D. Nguyen, A.Overwijk, C.Hauff, R.B. Trieschnigg, D. Hiemstra, F.M.G. de Jong
• Cross-language Information Retrieval with Explicit Semantic Analysis
  Philipp Sorg, Philipp Cimiano
• UFRGS@CLEF2008: Using Association Rules for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
  André Pinto Geraldo, Viviane Moreira Orengo
• CLEF 2008 Ad-Hoc Track: On-line Processing Experiments with Xtrieval
  Jens Kürsten, Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl
• XRCE's Participation to CLEF 2008 Ad-Hoc Track
  Stephane Clinchant, Jean-Michel Renders
• Using Part of Speech Tagging in Persian Information Retrieval
  Reza Karimpour, Amineh Ghorbani, Azadeh Pishdad, Mitra Mohtarami, Abolfazl AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri Farhad Oroumchian
• Fusion of Retrieval Models at CLEF 2008 Ad-Hoc Persian Track
  Zahra Aghazade, Nazanin Dehghani, Leili Farzinvash, Razieh Rahimi, Abolfazel AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian
• Cross Language Experiments at Persian@CLEF 2008
  Abolfazl AleAhmad, Ehsan Kamalloo, Arash Zareh, Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian
• Investigation on Application of Local Cluster Analysis and Part of Speech Tagging on Persian Text
  Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri
• SINAI at Robust WSD Task @ CLEF 2008: When WSD is a Good Idea for Information Retrieval tasks?
  Fernando Martínez-Santiago, José M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel A. García-Cumbreras
• UNIBA-SENSE at CLEF 2008: SEmantic N-levels Search Engine
  Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semeraro
• IXA at CLEF 2008 Robust-WSD Task: using Word Sense Disambiguation for (Cross Lingual) Information Retrieval
  Arantxa Otegi, Eneko Agirre, German Rigau
• UFRGS@CLEF2008: Indexing Multiword Expressions for Information Retrieval
  Otavio Costa Acosta, André Pinto Geraldo, Viviane Moreira Orengo, Aline Villavicencio
• IRn in the CLEF Robust WSD Task 2008
  Sergio Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz
• UCM-Y!R at CLEF 2008 Robust and WSD tasks
  José R. Pérez-Agüera, Hugo Zaragoza
• UNIGE Experiments on Robust Word Sense Disambiguation
  Jacques Guyot, Gilles Falquet, Saïd Radhouani, Karim Benzineb
• Exploiting Cooccurrence on Corpus and Document Level for Fair Crosslanguage Retrieval
  Andreas Juffinger, Roman Kern, Michael Granitzer
• German, French, English and Persian Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2008
  Stephen Tomlinson
• JHU Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2008
  Paul McNamee
• UniNE at CLEF 2008: TEL, Persian and Robust IR
  Ljiljana Dolamic, Claire Fautsch, Jacques Savoy

MorphoChallenge

• Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis Evaluation by a Comparison to a Linguistic Gold Standard - Morpho Challenge 2008
  Mikko Kurimo, Matti Varjokallio
• Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis Evaluation by IR experiments - Morpho Challenge 2008
  Mikko Kurimo, Ville Turunen
• Retrieval Experiments at Morpho Challenge 2008
  Paul McNamee
• Allomorfessor: Towards Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis
  Oskar Kohonen, Sami Virpioja, Mikaela Klami
• Morphological Induction Through Linguistic Productivity
  Sarah A. Goodman
• Using Unsupervised Paradigm Acquisition for Prefixes
  Daniel Zeman
• ParaMor and Morpho Challenge 2008
  Christian Monson, Jaime Carbonell, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin

Multilingual Information Filtering

• Overview of CLEF 2008 INFILE Pilot Track
  Romaric Besancon, Stéphane Chaudiron, Djamel Mostefa, Olivier Hamon, Ismaïl Timimi, Khalid Choukri
• Working Notes for the InFile Campaign : Online Document Filtering Using 1 Nearest Neighbor
  Eric Gaussier, Ali Mustafa Qamar, Vincent Bodinier

Multilingual Web Track

• Overview of WebCLEF 2008 (Draft)
  Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
• On the Evaluation of Snippet Selection for Information Retrieval
  A. Overwijk, D. Nguyen, C. Hauff, R.B. Trieschnigg, D. Hiemstra, F.M.G. de Jong
• REINA at WebCLEF 2008
  Carlos G. Figuerola, José L. Alonso Berrocal, ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Montserrat Mateos

Multiple Language Question Answering

• Overview of the CLEF 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track
  Pamela Forner, Anselmo Peñas, Iñaki Alegria, Corina Forăscu, Nicolas Moreau, Petya Osenova, Prokopis Prokopidis, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard Sutcliffe, Erik Tjong Kim Sang
• Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2008
  Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo
• Overview of QAST 2008
  Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel, Nicolas Moreau, Djamel Mostefa
• Experiments with Query Expansion in the RAPOSA (FOX) Question Answering System
  Luís Sarmento, Jorge Teixeira, Eugénio Oliveira
• AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2008
  S. Roger, K. Vila, A. Ferrández, M. Pardiño, J. M. Gómez, M. Puchol-Blasco, J. Peral
• Question Answering with Joost at CLEF 2008
  Gosse Bouma, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann
• Priberam's Question Answering system in QA@CLEF 2008
  Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, José Pina, Cláudia Pinto
• Cross Lingual Question Answering using QRISTAL for CLEF 2008
  Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, Sophie Nègre
• IdSay: Question Answering for Portuguese
  Gracinda Carvalho, David Martins de Matos, Vitor Rocio
• Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008
  Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Josef van Genabith
• Multi-lingual Question Answering using OpenEphyra
  Menno van Zaanen
• University of Wolverhampton at CLEF 2008
  Iustin Dornescu, Georgiana Puşcaşu, Constantin Orăsan
• AliQAn, Spanish QA System at Multilingual QA@CLEF-2008
  R. Muñoz-Terol, M. Puchol-Blasco, M. Pardiño, J.M. Gómez, S.Roger, K. Vila, A. Ferrández, J. Peral, P. Martínez-Barco
• Esfinge at CLEF 2008: Experimenting with Answer Retrieval Patterns. Can they help?
  Luís Costa
• Ihardetsi Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2008
  Olatz Ansa, Xabier Arregi, Arantxa Otegi, Ander Soraluce
• QA@L2F, Second Steps at QA@CLEF
  Luísa Coheur, Ana Mendes, João Guimarães, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro
• UAIC Participation at QA@CLEF2008
  Adrian Iftene, Ionut Pistol, Diana Trandabat
• RACAI's QA System at the Romanian-Romanian Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF2008) Main Task
  Radu Ion, Dan Ştefănescu, Alexandru Ceauşu, Dan Tufiş
• The LogAnswer Project at CLEF 2008: Towards Logic-Based Question Answering
  Ingo Glöckner, Björn Pelzer
• The MIRACLE Team at the CLEF 2008 Multilingual Question Answering Track
  ángel Martínez-González, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Concepción Polo-Bayo, María Teresa Vicente-Díez, Paloma Martínez-Fernández, José Luís Martínez-Fernández
• The Senso Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2008
  José Saias, Paulo Quaresma
• University of Hagen at QA@CLEF 2008: Efficient Question Answering with Question Decomposition and Multiple Answer Streams
  Sven Hartrumpf, Ingo Glöckner, Johannes Leveling
• DFKI at QA@CLEF 2008
  Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann, Christian Spurk
• Answer Validation on English and Romanian Languages
  Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu
• The Answer Validation System ProdicosAV
  Christine Jacquin, Laura Monceaux, Emmanuel Desmontils
• Justification of Answers by Verification of Dependency Relations - The French AVE Task
  Véronique Moriceau, Xavier Tannier, Arnaud Grappy, Brigitte Grau
• A Lexical-Semantic Approach to AVE
  óscar Ferrández, Rafael Muñoz, Manuel Palomar
• University of Hagen at CLEF 2008: Answer Validation Exercise
  Ingo Glöckner
• The Contribution of FaMAF at QA@CLEF 2008. Answer Validation Exercise
  Julio J. Castillo
• Information Synthesis for Answer Validation
  Rui Wang, Günter Neumann
• INAOE at QA@CLEF 2008: Evaluating Answer Validation in Spanish Question Answering
  Alberto Téllez-Valero, Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda
• The LIMSI Participation to the QAst Track
  Sophie Rosset, Olivier Galibert, Guillaume Bernard, Eric Bilinski, Gilles Adda
• Adapting IBQAS to work with Text Transciptions in QAst Task: IBQAst
  M. Pardiño, J.M. Gómez, H. Llorens, R. Muñoz-Terol, B. Navarro-Colorado, E. Saquete, P. Martínez-Barco, P. Moreda, M. Palomar
• Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts: UPC Experience in QAst 2008
  Pere R. Comas, Jordi Turmo
• QA Extension for Xtrieval: Contribution to the QAst track
  Jens Kürsten, Holger Kundisch, Maximilian Eibl
• QA with a Disambiguated Document Collection
  D. Buscaldi, P. Rosso

Appendix

• Appendix A: Results of the TEL@CLEF Task
  
• Appendix B: Results of the Persian@CLEF Task
  
• Appendix C: Results of the Robust Track
  
• Appendix D: Results of Domain Specific Track
  
• Appendix E: Results of GeoCLEF Track
  
• Appendix F: Partecipating Institutions