ADVANCES IN MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIMODAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL : 8TH WORKSHOP OF THE CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM, CLEF 2007, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2007, REVISED SELECTED PAPERS

VALENTIN JIJKOUN,THOMAS MANDL,HENNING MüLLER,DOUGLAS W. OARD,VIVIEN PETRAS,DIANA SANTOS

ISBN 10: 3540857591 / ISBN 13: 9783540857594

Published by Springer, 2008

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• Title: ADVANCES IN MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIMODAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL : 8TH WORKSHOP OF THE CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM, CLEF 2007, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2007, REVISED SELECTED PAPERS
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540857591
• ISBN 13: 9783540857594
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

The eighth campaign of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for - ropean languages was held from January to September 2007. There were seven distinct evaluation tracks in CLEF 2007, designed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. CLEF is by now an established international evaluation initiative and, in 2007, 81 groups from all over the world submitted results for one or more of the di?erent evaluation tracks. Full details regarding the design of the tracks, the methodologies used for evaluation, and the results obtained by the participants can be found in the di?erent sections of these proceedings. As always the results of the campaign were reported and discussed at the annual workshop, held in Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 September, immediately following the eleventh European Conference on Digital Libraries. The workshop playsanimportantrolebyprovidingtheopportunityforallthe groupsthathave participated in the evaluation campaign to get together to compare approaches and exchange ideas.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007.

The revised and extended papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. There are 115 contributions in total and an introduction. The seven distrinct evaluation tracks in CLEF 2007, are designed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc), Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), cross-language retrieval in image collections (Image CLEF), cross-language speech retrieval (CL-SR), multilingual Web retrieval (WebCLEF), cross-language geographical retrieval (GeoCLEF), and CLEF in other evaluations.