CLEF 2010
CLEF2010 Working Notes

Table of Contents

Preface

• Introduction to the CLEF 2010 labs
  Martin Braschler, Donna Harman

Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections

• Overview of the Wikipedia Retrieval Task at ImageCLEF 2010
  Adrian Popescu, Theodora Tsikrika,Lu Jana Kludas
• Overview of the CLEF 2010 Medical Image Retrieval Track
  Henning Müller, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Ivan Eggel, Steven Bedrick, Joe Reisetter, Charles E. Kahn Jr., William Hersh
• The Robot Vision Track at ImageCLEF 2010
  Andrzej Pronobis, Marco Fornoni, Henrik I. Christensen, Barbara Caputo
• New Strategies for Image Annotation: Overview of the Photo Annotation Task at ImageCLEF 2010
  Stefanie Nowak, Mark Huiskes
• Télécom Bretagne at ImageCLEF WikipediaMM 2010
  Adrian Popescu
• XRCE's Participation in Wikipedia Retrieval, Medical Image Modality Classification and Ad-hoc Retrieval Tasks of ImageCLEF 2010
  Stéphane Clinchant, Gabriela Csurka, Julien Ah-Pine, Guillaume Jacquet, Florent Perronnin, Jorge Sánchez, Keyvan Minoukadeh
• Blind Relevance Feedback for the ImageCLEF Wikipedia Retrieval Task
  Ray R. Larson
• Document Expansion for Text-based Image Retrieval at WikipediaMM 2010
  Jinming Min, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J.F. Jones
• Experiences at ImageCLEF 2010 using CBIR and TBIR Mixing Information Approaches
  Joan Benavent, Xaro Benavent, Esther de Ves, Ruben Granados, Ana García-Serrano
• Multimedia Search with Noisy Modalities: Fusion and Multistage Retrieval
  Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konstantinos Zagoris
• I2R At ImageCLEF Wikipedia Retrieval 2010
  Kong-Wah Wan, Yan-Tao Zheng, Sujoy Roy
• DAEDALUS at ImageCLEF Wikipedia Retrieval 2010: Expanding with Semantic Information from Context
  Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González-Cristóbal
• SZTAKI@Imageclef2010
  Bálint Daróczy, István Petrás, András A. Benczúr, Dávid Márk Nemeskey, Róbert Pethes
• RGU at ImageCLEF2010 Wikipedia Retrieval Task
  Jun Wang, Dawei Song, Leszek Kaliciak
• UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images
  Miguel E. Ruiz, Jiangping Chen, Karthikeyan Pasupathy, Pok Chin, Ryan Knudson
• ImageCLEF 2010 Working Notes on the Modality Classification Subtask
  Olivier Pauly, Diana Mateus, Nassir Navab
• ImageCLEF 2010 Modality Classification in Medical Image Retrieval: Multiple Feature Fusion with Normalized Kernel Function
  Xian-Hua Han, Yen-Wei Chen
• SINAI at ImageCLEF 2010 Medical Task
  Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Miguel Angel García-Cumbreras
• IRIT at ImageCLEF 2010: Medical Retrieval Track
  Duy Dinh, Lynda Tamine
• Text- and Content-based Approaches to Image Modality Detection and Retrieval for the ImageCLEF 2010 Medical Retrieval Track
  Matthew Simpson, Md Mahmudur Rahman, Sachin Singhal, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sameer Antani, George Thoma
• The Participation of MedGIFT Group at ImageCLEFmed 2010
  Xin Zhou, Ivan Eggel, Henning Müller
• Medical Image Retrieval: ISSR at CLEF 2010
  Ragia Ibrahim, Waleed Arafa
• UESTC at ImageCLEF 2010 Medical Retrieval Task
  Hong Wu, Changjun Hu, Sikun Chen
• Bioingenium at ImageClefmed 2010: A Latent Semantic Approach
  Jose G. Moreno, Juan C. Caicedo, Fabio A. González
• IPL at ImageCLEF 2010
  Alexandros Stougiannis, Anestis Gkanogiannis, Theodore Kalamboukis
• Improving Retrieval Using External Annotations: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2010
  Steven Bedrick, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
• Biomedical Imaging Modality Classification Using Bags of Visual and Textual Terms with Extremely Randomized Trees: Report of ImageCLEF 2010 Experiments
  Raphaël Marée, Olivier Stern, Pierre Geurts
• Medical Case-based Retrieval by Leveraging Medical Ontology and Physician Feedback: UIUC-IBM at ImageCLEF 2010
  Parikshit Sondhi, Jimeng Sun, ChengXiang Zhai, Robert Sorrentino, Martin S. Kohn, Shahram Ebadollahi, Yanen Li
• Combination of Classifiers for Indoor Room Recognition CGS Participation at ImageCLEF2010 Robot Vision Task
  Walter Lucetti, Emanuel Luchetti
• A Multi Cue Discriminative Approach to Semantic Place Classification
  Marco Fornoni, Jesus Martinez-Gomez, Barbara Caputo
• Visual Localization Using Global Visual Features and Vanishing Points
  Olivier Saurer, Friedrich Fraundorfer, Marc Pollefeys
• Meiji University at ImageCLEF2010 Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task
  Naoki Motohashi, Ryo Izawa, Tomohiro Takagi
• A Text-Based Approach to the ImageCLEF 2010 Photo Annotation Task
  Wei Li, Jinming Min, Gareth J. F. Jones
• A Novel Structural-Description Approach for Image Retrieval
  Christoph Rasche, Constantin Vertan
• LEAR and XRCE's Participation to Visual Concept Detection Task - ImageCLEF 2010
  Thomas Mensink, Gabriela Csurka, Florent Perronnin, Jorge Sánchez, Jakob Verbeek
• MRIM-LIG at ImageCLEF 2010 Visual Concept Detection and Annotation task
  Rami Al Batal, Philippe Mulhem
• TELECOM ParisTech at ImageCLEF 2010 Photo Annotation Task: Combining Tags and Visual Features for Learning-Based Image Annotation
  Hichem Sahbi, Xi Li
• Detection of Visual Concepts and Annotation of Images Using Predictive Clustering Trees
  Ivica Dimitrovski, Dragi Kocev, Suzana Loskovska, Sašo Džeroski
• UPMC/LIP6 at ImageCLEFannotation 2010
  Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Sabrina Tollari, Nicolas Usunier, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari
• Random Sampling Image to Class Distance for Photo Annotation
  Deyuan Zhang, Bingquan Liu, Chengjie Sun, Xiaolong Wang
• Augmenting Bag-of-Words - Category Specific Features and Concept Reasoning
  Eugene Mbanya, Christian Hentschel, Sebastian Gerke, Mohan Liu, Andreas Nürnberger, Patrick Ndjiki-Nya
• The Wroclaw University of Technology Participation at ImageCLEF 2010 Photo Annotation Track
  Michal Stanek, Oskar Maier, Halina Kwasnicka
• Linear SVM for new Pyramidal Multi-Level Visual only Concept Detection in CLEF 2010 Challenge
  Sébastien Paris, Hervé Glotin
• The University of Amsterdam's Concept Detection System at ImageCLEF 2010
  Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers

Cross-lingual Expert Search Workshop

• Overview of the Cross-lingual Expert Search (CriES) Pilot Challenge
  Philipp Sorg, Philipp Cimiano, Antje Schultz, Sergej Sizov
• HITS and Misses: Combining BM25 with HITS for Expert Search
  Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. Jones
• Multilingual Expert Search using Linked Open Data as Interlingual Representation
  Daniel M. Herzig, Hristina Taneva
• Identify Experts from a Domain of Interest
  Adrian Iftene, Bogdan Luca, Georgiana Cărăuşu, Madălina Merchez

Log File Analysis

• LogCLEF 2010: the CLEF 2010 Multilingual Logfile Analysis Track Overview
  Thomas Mandl, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Julia Maria Schulz
• Ambiguity of Queries and the Challenges for Query Language Detection
  Juliane Stiller, Maria Gäde, Vivien Petras
• How does the Library Searcher Behave? A Contrastive Study of Library Search against Ad-hoc Search
  Suzan Verberne, Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Eduard Hoenkamp, Wessel Kraaij, Theo van der Weide
• SINAI at LogCLEF 2010
  José Manuel Peréa-Ortega, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Miguel Angel García-Cumbreras , L. Alfonso Ureña-López
• Language Identification Strategies for Cross Language Information Retrieval
  Alessio Bosca, Luca Dini
• DCU-TCD@LogCLEF 2010: Re-ranking Document Collections and Query Performance Estimation
  Johannes Leveling, M. Rami Ghorab, Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones, Vincent Wade
• DAEDALUS at LogCLEF 2010: Analyzing the Success of Search Queries
  Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González-Cristóbal
• CRES at LogCLEF 2010: Towards Understanding the User Behaviors through an Analysis of Search Sessions, Search Units and Click Ranks
  Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Noriko Kando, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa

Multiple Language Question Answering 2010

• Overview of ResPubliQA 2010: Question Answering Evaluation over European Legislation
  Anselmo Peñas, Pamela Forner, Álvaro Rodrigo, Richard Sutcliffe, Corina Forăscu, Cristina Mota
• Question Answering System: Retrieving Relevant Passages
  Hitesh Sabnani, Prasenjit Majumder
• JU_CSE_TE: System Description QA@CLEF 2010 - ResPubliQA
  Partha Pakray, Pinaki Bhaskar, Santanu Pal, Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Gelbukh
• FIDJI @ ResPubliQA 2010
  Xavier Tannier, Véronique Moriceau
• Document Expansion for Cross-Lingual Passage Retrieval
  Eneko Agirre, Olatz Ansa, Xabier Arregi, Maddalen Lopez de Lacalle, Arantxa Otegi, Xabier Saralegi
• Contextual Approach for Paragraph Selection in Question Answering Task
  Hapnes Toba, Syandra Sari, Mirna Adriani, Ruli Manurung
• Question Answering on Romanian, English and French Languages
  Adrian Iftene, Diana Trandabăţ, Maria Husarciuc, Alex Moruz
• SZTAKI @ ResPubliQA 2010
  Dávid Márk Nemeskey
• Temporal Information Needs in ResPubliQA: an Attempt to Improve Accuracy. The UC3M Participation at CLEF 2010
  María Teresa Vicente-Díez, Julián Moreno Schneider, Paloma Martínez
• The LogAnswer Project at ResPubliQA 2010
  Ingo Glöckner, Björn Pelzer
• A Question Answering System based on Information Retrieval and Validation
  Álvaro Rodrigo, Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Anselmo Peñas, Guillermo Garrido, Lourdes Araujo
• NLEL at RespubliQA 2010
  Santiago Correa, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
• Monolingual and Multilingual Question Answering on European Legislation
  Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceauşu, Dan Ştefănescu, Dan Tufiş, Elena Irimia, Verginica Barbu Mititelu
• Revamping Question Answering with a Semantic Approach over World Knowledge
  Nuno Cardoso, Iustin Dornescu, Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling
• Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation
  Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Eduard Hovy, Emanuele Pianta
• Reflections on TREC QA
  Ellen Voorhees

Retrieval in the Intellectual Property Domain

• CLEF-IP 2010: Retrieval Experiments in the Intellectual Property Domain.
  Florina Piroi
• Applying the KISS Principle for the CLEF- IP 2010 Prior Art Candidate Patent Search Task
  Walid Magdy, Gareth J.F. Jones
• Using BM25F and KLD for Patent Retrieval
  Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Álvaro Rodrigo, Víctor Fresno
• Prior Art Retrieval Using Various Patent Document Fields Contents
  Metti Zakaria Wanagiri, Mirna Adriani
• CLEF-IP 2010: Prior Art Retrieval Using the Different Sections in Patent Documents
  Eva D'hondt, Suzan Verberne
• Phrases or Terms? The Impact of Different Query Types
  Daniela Becks, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker
• Building Strategies, a Year Later
  Wouter Alink, Roberto Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vries
• Experiments with Citation Mining and Key-Term Extraction for Prior Art Search
  Patrice Lopez, Laurent Romary
• Automatic Prior Art Searching and Patent Encoding at CLEF-IP '10
  Douglas Teodoro, Julien Gobeill, Emilie Pasche, Dina Vishnyakova, Patrick Ruch, Christian Lovis
• LCI-INSA Linguistic Experiment for CLEF-IP Classification Track
  Jean Beney
• myClass: A Mature Tool for Patent Classification
  Jacques Guyot, Karim Benzineb, Gilles Falquet
• Combining Semantics and Statistics for Patent Classification
  Franck Derieux, Mihaela Bobeica, Delphine Pois, Jean-Pierre Raysz
• Patent Classification Experiments with the Linguistic Classification System LCS
  Suzan Verberne, Merijn Vogel, Eva D'hondt

Uncovering plagiarism, authorship and social software misuse

• Overview of the 2nd International Competition on Plagiarism Detection
  Martin Potthast, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Andreas Eiselt, Benno Stein, Paolo Rosso
• Overview of the 1st International Competition on Wikipedia Vandalism Detection
  Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Teresa Holfeld
• Improving the Reliability of the Plagiarism Detection System - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Jan Kasprzak, Michal Brandejs
• A Cluster-Based Plagiarism Detection Method - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010.
  Du Zou, Wei-jiang Long, Zhang Ling
• External and Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection Using a Cross-Lingual Retrieval and Segmentation System - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Markus Muhr, Roman Kern, Mario Zechner, Michael Granitzer
• Encoplot - Performance in the Second International Plagiarism Detection Challenge - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Cristian Grozea, Marius Popescu
• FastDocode: Finding Approximated Segments of N-Grams for Document Copy Detection - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Gabriel Oberreuter, Gaston L'Huillier, Sebastián A. Ríos, Juan D. Velásquez
• CoReMo System (Contextual Reference Monotony) - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Diego Antonio Rodríguez Torrejón, José Manuel Martín Ramos
• UFRGS@PAN2010: Detecting External Plagiarism - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Rafael Corezola Pereira, Viviane P. Moreira, Renata Galante
• Exploring Fingerprinting as External Plagiarism Detection Method - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Yurii Palkovskii, Alexei Belov, Irina Muzika
• External Plagiarism Detection - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pattabhi R. K. Rao, Vijay Sundar Ram, A. Akilandeswari
• External Plagiarism Detection Based on Standard IR Technology and Fast Recognition of Common Subsequences - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Thomas Gottron
• A Textual-Based Similarity Approach for Efficient and Scalable External Plagiarism Analysis - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Daniel Micol, Óscar Ferrández, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz
• Plagiarism Detection Using Information Retrieval and Similarity Measures Based on Image Processing Techniques - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Marta R. Costa-jussà, Rafael E. Banchs, Jens Grivolla, Joan Codina
• University of Sheffield - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab, Mark Stevenson, Paul Clough
• External Plagiarism Detection: N-Gram Approach Using Named Entity Recognizer - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Parth Gupta, Sameer Rao, Prasenjit Majumder
• Automatic External Plagiarism Detection Using Passage Similarities - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Clara Vania, Mirna Adriani
• A Plagiarism Detector for Intrinsic Plagiarism - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Pablo Suárez, José Carlos González-Cristóbal, Julio Villena-Román
• Fuzzy Semantic-Based String Similarity for Extrinsic Plagiarism Detection - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Salha Alzahrani, Naomie Salim
• Wikipedia Vandalism Detection Through Machine Learning: Feature Review and New Proposals - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Santiago Moisés Mola Velasco
• Detecting Wikipedia Vandalism using WikiTrust - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  B. Thomas Adler, Luca de Alfaro, Ian Pye
• Novel Balanced Feature Representation for Wikipedia Vandalism Detection Task - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  István Hegedũs, Róbert Ormándi, Richárd Farkas, Márk Jelasity
• Wiki Vandalysis - Wikipedia Vandalism Analysis - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  Manoj Harpalani, Thanadit Phumprao, Megha Bassi, Michael Hart, Rob Johnson
• ZOT! to Wikipedia Vandalism - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
  James White, Rebecca Maessen

Web People Search

• WePS-3 Evaluation Campaign: Overview of the Web People Search Clustering and Attribute Extraction Tasks
  Javier Artiles, Andrew Borthwick, Julio Gonzalo, Satoshi Sekine, Enrique Amigó
• WePS3 Evaluation Campaign: Overview of the On-line Reputation Management Task
  Enrique Amigó, Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Damiano Spina, Bing Liu, Adolfo Corujo
• Using Web Graph Structure for Person Name Disambiguation
  Elena Smirnova, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Brigitte Trousse
• Web Person Name Disambiguation by Relevance Weighting of Extended Feature Sets
  Chong Long, Lei Shi
• Person Attribute Extraction from the Textual Parts of Web Pages
  István T. Nagy, Richárd Farkas
• TALP at WePS-3 2010
  Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
• DAEDALUS at WebPS-3 2010: k-Medoids Clustering Using a Cost Function Minimization
  Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González-Cristóbal
• Cross-document Coreference for WePS
  Iustin Dornescu, Constantin Orasan, Tatiana Lesnikova
• SINAI at WePS-3: Online Reputation Management
  Miguel Angel García-Cumbreras, Manuel García-Vega, Fernando Martínez-Santiago, José Manuel Peréa-Ortega
• It Was Easy, when Apples and Blackberries Were only Fruits
  Surender Reddy Yerva, Zoltán Miklós, Karl Aberer
• The University of Amsterdam at WePS3
  Manos Tsagkias, Krisztian Balog
• Bootstrapping Websites for Classification of Organization Names on Twitter
  Paul Kalmar
• ITC-UT: Tweet Categorization by Query Categorization for On-line Reputation Management
  Minoru Yoshida, Shin Matsushima, Shingo Ono, Issei Sato, Hiroshi Nakagawa