Table of Contents

• IntroductionJulio Gonzalo, Carol Peters. 1-6 [doi]
• CLEF 2003 Methodology and MetricsMartin Braschler, Carol Peters. 7-20 [doi]
• Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation ForumThomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker. 21-28 [doi]
• Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at the NTCIR WorkshopNoriko Kando. 29-43 [doi]
• CLEF 2003 - Overview of ResultsMartin Braschler. 44-63 [doi]
• Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual TracksJacques Savoy. 64-73 [doi]
• The Impact of Word Normalization Methods and Merging Strategies on Multilingual IREija Airio, Heikki Keskustalo, Turid Hedlund, Ari Pirkola. 74-84 [doi]
• JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-word TranslationPaul McNamee, James Mayfield. 85-97 [doi]
• Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from CorporaNicola Cancedda, Hervé Déjean, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Michel Renders, Alexei Vinokourov. 98-107 [doi]
• Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language RetrievalAitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey. 108-121 [doi]
• Cross-Language Experiments with the IR-n SystemFernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz. 122-132 [doi]
• Multilingual Information Retrieval Using Open, Transparent Resources in CLEF 2003Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang. 133-139 [doi]
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Information RetrievalNicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico. 140-151 [doi]
• Language-Dependent and Language-Independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text RetrievalJaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. 152-165 [doi]
• Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of HildesheimRené Hackl, Ralph Kölle, Thomas Mandl, Alexandra Ploedt, Jan-Hendrik Scheufen, Christa Womser-Hacker. 166-173 [doi]
• Concept-Based Searching and Merging for Multilingual Information Retrieval: First Experiments at CLEF 2003Romaric Besançon, Gaël de Chalendar, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr, Olivier Mesnard, Hubert Naets. 174-184 [doi]
• CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB: Automatically Generated Phrases and Relevance Feedback for Improving CLIRMiguel E. Ruiz. 185-191 [doi]
• SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and MergingFernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano. 192-201 [doi]
• Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval EffectivenessWen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen. 202-209 [doi]
• MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Baseline for Future ResearchJosé Luis Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena, Jorge Fombella, Ana García-Serrano, Paloma Martínez, José M. Goñi, José Carlos González. 210-219 [doi]
• Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word TranslationGiorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio. 220-235 [doi]
• Clairvoyance CLEF-2003 ExperimentsYan Qu, Gregory Grefenstette, David A. Evans. 236-241 [doi]
• Simple Translations of Monolingual Queries Expanded Through an Association Thesaurus: X-IOTA IR System Used for CLIPS Bilingual ExperimentsGilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet. 242-252 [doi]
• Two-Stage Refinement of Query Translation in a Pivot Language Approach to Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2003Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando. 253-262 [doi]
• Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information RetrievalMichael P. Oakes, Souvik Banerjee. 263-270 [doi]
• Exeter at CLEF 2003: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual RetrievalAdenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones. 271-285 [doi]
• Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2003Stephen Tomlinson. 286-300 [doi]
• Océ at CLEF 2003Roel Brand, Marvin Brünner, Samuel Driessen, Pascha Iljin, Jakob Klok. 301-309 [doi]
• Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information RetrievalGianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano. 310-318 [doi]
• Pruning Texts with NLP and Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearchGil Francopoulo. 319-321 [doi]
• Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual RetrievalJacques Savoy. 322-336 [doi]
• Selective Compound Splitting of Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated TermsRickard Cöster, Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren. 337-344 [doi]
• COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003 in the Spanish Monolingual TrackJesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, Francisco J. Ribadas. 345-357 [doi]
• Experiments with Self Organizing Maps in CLEF 2003Javier Fernández, Ricardo Mones, Irene Díaz, José Ranilla, Elías F. Combarro. 358 [doi]
• Ricoh at CLEF 2003Yuichi Kojima, Hideo Itoh, Hiroko Mano, Yasushi Ogawa. 367-372 [doi]
• MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using Keyword DisambiguationPeter van der Weerd. 373-375 [doi]
• The GIRT Data in the Evaluation of CLIR Systems - from 1997 Until 2003Michael Kluck. 376-390 [doi]
• A Data-Compression Approach to the Monolingual GIRT Task: An Agnostic Point of ViewDaniela Alderuccio, Luciana Bordoni, Vittorio Loreto. 391-400 [doi]
• UC Berkeley at CLEF-2003 - Russian Language Experiments and Domain-Specific RetrievalVivien Petras, Natalia Perelman, Fredric C. Gey. 401-411 [doi]
• University of Hagen at CLEF 2003: Natural Language Access to the GIRT4 DataJohannes Leveling. 412-424 [doi]
• The CLEF 2003 Interactive TrackDouglas W. Oard, Julio Gonzalo. 425-434 [doi]
• iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document SelectionBonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard, Richard M. Schwartz, Jianqiang Wang, David M. Zajic. 435-449 [doi]
• UNED at iCLEF 2003: Searching Cross-Language SummariesFernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo. 450-461 [doi]
• Comparing Syntactic-Semantic Patterns and Passages in Interactive Cross Language Information Access (iCLEF at University of Alicante)Borja Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Miguel Angel Varó. 462-467 [doi]
• Continued Experiments on Cross-Language Relevance AssessmentJussi Karlgren, Preben Hansen. 468-470 [doi]
• The Multiple Language Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo, Maarten de Rijke. 471-486 [doi]
• Creating the DISEQuA Corpus: A Test Set for Multilingual Question AnsweringBernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo, Maarten de Rijke. 487-500 [doi]
• Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev, Bernardo Magnini. 501-513 [doi]
• Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences InstituteAbdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu, Ulf Hermjakob. 514-522 [doi]
• How Frogs Built the Berlin Wall: A Detailed Error Analysis of a Question Answering System for DutchValentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke. 523-534 [doi]
• Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline in CLEF 2003Lucian Vlad Lita, Monica Rogati, Jaime G. Carbonell. 535-540 [doi]
• Question Answering in SpanishJosé Luis Vicedo González, Rubén Izquierdo, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz. 541-548 [doi]
• Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering SystemLuc Plamondon, George F. Foster. 549-558 [doi]
• A Cross-Language Question/Answering-System for German and EnglishGünter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu. 559-571 [doi]
• Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2003Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay, Aoife O Gorman. 572-580 [doi]
• The CLEF 2003 Cross Language Image Retrieval TrackPaul Clough, Mark Sanderson. 581-593 [doi]
• Assessing Translation Quality for Cross Language Image RetrievalPaul Clough, Mark Sanderson. 594-610 [doi]
• Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image RetrievalWen-Cheng Lin, Changhua Yang, Hsin-Hsi Chen. 611-620 [doi]
• Image Retrieval: The MIRACLE ApproachJulio Villena, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Jorge Fombella, Ana García-Serrano, Alberto Ruiz 0002, Paloma Martínez, José M. Goñi, José Carlos González. 621-630 [doi]
• Scene of Crime Information System: Playing at St. AndrewsBogdan Vrusias, Mariam Tariq, Lee Gillam. 631-645 [doi]
• The CLEF 2003 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval TrackMarcello Federico, Gareth J. F. Jones. 646 [doi]
• Exeter at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval ExperimentsGareth J. F. Jones, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina. 653-657 [doi]
• N-Grams for Translation and Retrieval in CL-SDRPaul McNamee, James Mayfield. 658-663 [doi]
• Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments with IR-n SystemFernando Llopis, Patricio Martínez-Barco. 664-671 [doi]
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document RetrievalNicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico. 672-675 [doi]