Table of Contents

• What Happened in CLEF 2005Carol Peters. 1-10 [doi]
• CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc Track OverviewGiorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Gareth J. F. Jones, Carol Peters. 11-36 [doi]
• Ad-Hoc Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of HildesheimRené Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker. 37-43 [doi]
• MIRACLE at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2005: Merging and Combining Without Using a Single ApproachJosé Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González Cristóbal, Julio Villena-Román. 44-53 [doi]
• The XLDB Group at the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc TaskNuno Cardoso, Leonardo Andrade, Alberto Simões, Mário J. Silva. 54-60 [doi]
• Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2005Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams. 61-68 [doi]
• Using the X-IOTA System in Mono- and Bilingual Experiments at CLEF 2005Loïc Maisonnasse, Gilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet. 69-78 [doi]
• Bilingual and Multilingual Experiments with the IR-n SystemElisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Fernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez. 79-82 [doi]
• Dictionary-Based Amharic-French Information RetrievalAtelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren. 83-92 [doi]
• A Hybrid Approach to Query and Document Translation Using a Pivot Language for Cross-Language Information RetrievalKazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando. 93-101 [doi]
• Conceptual Indexing for Multilingual Information RetrievalJacques Guyot, Saïd Radhouani, Gilles Falquet. 102-112 [doi]
• SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-on and Multi-8 Merging-Only TasksFernando Martínez Santiago, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. 113-120 [doi]
• CLEF 2005: Multilingual Retrieval by Combining Multiple Multilingual Ranked ListsLuo Si, Jamie Callan. 121-130 [doi]
• Monolingual, Bilingual, and GIRT Information Retrieval at CLEF-2005Jacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger. 131-140 [doi]
• Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information RetrievalMikhail S. Ageev, Boris V. Dobrov, Natalia V. Loukachevitch. 141-150 [doi]
• The Performance of a Machine Translation-Based English-Indonesian CLIR SystemMirna Adriani, Ihsan Wahyu. 151-154 [doi]
• Exploring New Languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005Paul McNamee. 155-164 [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-On Merging ExperimentsAdenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones. 165-169 [doi]
• Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information RetrievalChristina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis. 170-178 [doi]
• Four Stemmers and a Funeral: Stemming in Hungarian at CLEF 2005Anna Tordai, Maarten de Rijke. 179-186 [doi]
• ENSM-SE at CLEF 2005: Using a Fuzzy Proximity Matching FunctionAnnabelle Mercier, Amélie Imafouo, Michel Beigbeder. 187-193 [doi]
• Bulgarian and Hungarian Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServer:::TM::: at CLEF 2005Stephen Tomlinson. 194-203 [doi]
• Combining Passages in the Monolingual Task with the IR-n SystemFernando Llopis, Elisa Noguera. 204-207 [doi]
• Weighting Query Terms Based on Distributional StatisticsJussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Rickard Cöster. 208-211 [doi]
• Domain-Specific Track CLEF 2005: Overview of Results and Approaches, Remarks on the Assessment AnalysisMichael Kluck, Maximilian Stempfhuber. 212-221 [doi]
• A Baseline for NLP in Domain-Specific IRJohannes Leveling. 222-225 [doi]
• Domain-Specific CLIR of English, German and Russian Using Fusion and Subject Metadata for Query ExpansionVivien Petras, Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson. 226-237 [doi]
• Evaluating a Conceptual Indexing Method by Utilizing WordNetMustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles. 238-246 [doi]
• Domain Specific Mono- and Bilingual English to German Retrieval Experiments with a Social Science Document CorpusRené Hackl, Thomas Mandl. 247-250 [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive TrackJulio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Alessandro Vallin. 251-262 [doi]
• Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question AnsweringÁngel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Carlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Viviana Fernández Marcial. 263-272 [doi]
• How Much Context Do You Need? : An Experiment About the Context Size in Interactive Cross-Language Question AnsweringBorja Navarro, Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo, Elisa Noguera, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo. 273-282 [doi]
• UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential AnswersVíctor Peinado, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo. 283-292 [doi]
• Effect of Connective Functions in Interactive Image RetrievalJulio Villena-Román, Raquel M. Crespo García, José Carlos González Cristóbal. 293-296 [doi]
• Using Concept Hierarchies in Text-Based Image Retrieval: A User EvaluationDaniela Petrelli, Paul Clough. 297-306 [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering TrackAlessandro Vallin, Bernardo Magnini, Danilo Giampiccolo, Lili Aunimo, Christelle Ayache, Petya Osenova, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Diana Santos, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe. 307-331 [doi]
• A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering for English and GermanRobert Strötgen, Thomas Mandl, René Schneider. 332-336 [doi]
• The OEDipe System at CLEF-QA 2005Romaric Besançon, Mehdi Embarek, Olivier Ferret. 337-346 [doi]
• An XML-Based System for Spanish Question AnsweringDavid Tomás, José Luis Vicedo González, Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Rubén Izquierdo. 347-350 [doi]
• A Logic Programming Based Approach to QA@CLEF05 TrackPaulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues. 351-360 [doi]
• Extending Knowledge and Deepening Linguistic Processing for the Question Answering System InSichtSven Hartrumpf. 361-369 [doi]
• Question Answering for Dutch Using Dependency RelationsGosse Bouma, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann. 370-379 [doi]
• Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-termsBrigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat. 380-389 [doi]
• Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Kiril Ivanov Simov. 390-399 [doi]
• The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF 2005Daniel Ferrés, Samir Kanaan, Alicia Ageno, Edgar González, Horacio Rodríguez, Jordi Turmo. 400-409 [doi]
• Priberam s Question Answering System for PortugueseCarlos Amaral, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto. 410-419 [doi]
• A Full Data-Driven System for Multiple Language Question AnsweringManuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Emilio Sanchis Arnal, Paolo Rosso. 420-428 [doi]
• Experiments on Cross-Linguality and Question-Type Driven Strategy Selection for Open-Domain QAGünter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu. 429-438 [doi]
• QUASAR: The Question Answering System of the Universidad Politécnica de ValenciaJosé Manuel Gómez Soriano, Davide Buscaldi, Empar Bisbal Asensi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal. 439-448 [doi]
• Towards an Offline XML-Based Strategy for Answering QuestionsDavid Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang. 449-456 [doi]
• AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2005Sandra Roger, Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral, Fernando Llopis, A. Aguilar, David Tomás. 457-466 [doi]
• 20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) Solving the Riddles at CLEF 2005Luis Costa. 467-476 [doi]
• Question Answering Experiments for Finnish and FrenchLili Aunimo, Reeta Kuuskoski. 477-487 [doi]
• MIRACLE s Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments with Spanish as a Target LanguageCésar de Pablo-Sánchez, Ana González-Ledesma, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, José María Guirao, Paloma Martínez, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval. 488-491 [doi]
• The Role of Lexical Features in Question Answering for SpanishManuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor Pineda. 492-501 [doi]
• Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2005Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Michael Mulcahy, Igal Gabbay, Aoife O Gorman, Darina Slattery. 502-509 [doi]
• Finding Answers to Indonesian Questions from English DocumentsMirna Adriani, Rinawati. 510-516 [doi]
• BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova. 517-526 [doi]
• The Query Answering System PRODICOSLaura Monceaux, Christine Jacquin, Emmanuel Desmontils. 527-534 [doi]
• The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Image Retrieval TrackPaul Clough, Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Martin Lehmann, Jeffery R. Jensen, William R. Hersh. 535-557 [doi]
• Linguistic Estimation of Topic Difficulty in Cross-Language Image RetrievalMichael Grubinger, Clement H. C. Leung, Paul Clough. 558-566 [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew s CollectionGareth J. F. Jones, Kieran McDonald. 567-573 [doi]
• A Probabilistic, Text and Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval SystemRubén Izquierdo-Beviá, David Tomás, Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, José Luis Vicedo González. 574-577 [doi]
• UNED at ImageCLEF 2005: Automatically Structured Queries with Named Entities over MetadataVíctor Peinado, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo. 578-581 [doi]
• Easing Erroneous Translations in Cross-Language Image Retrieval Using Word AssociationsMasashi Inoue. 582-591 [doi]
• A Corpus-Based Relevance Feedback Approach to Cross-Language Image RetrievalYih-Chen Chang, Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen. 592-601 [doi]
• CUHK at ImageCLEF 2005: Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image RetrievalSteven C. H. Hoi, Jianke Zhu, Michael R. Lyu. 602-611 [doi]
• The University of Jaén at ImageCLEF 2005: Adhoc and Medical TasksMaite Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Arturo Montejo Ráez. 612-621 [doi]
• Data Fusion of Retrieval Results from Different Media: Experiments at ImageCLEF 2005Romaric Besançon, Christophe Millet. 622-631 [doi]
• Combining Visual Features for Medical Image Retrieval and AnnotationWei Xiong, Bo Qiu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu, S. H. Ong, Kelvin W. C. Foong. 632-641 [doi]
• A Structured Visual Learning Approach Mixed with Ontology Dimensions for Medical QueriesJean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Saïd Radhouani. 642-651 [doi]
• FIRE in ImageCLEF 2005: Combining Content-Based Image Retrieval with Textual Information RetrievalThomas Deselaers, Tobias Weyand, Daniel Keysers, Wolfgang Macherey, Hermann Ney. 652-661 [doi]
• A Clustered Retrieval Approach for Categorizing and Annotating ImagesLisa Ballesteros, Desislava Petkova. 662-672 [doi]
• Manual Query Modification and Data Fusion for Medical Image RetrievalJeffery R. Jensen, William R. Hersh. 673-679 [doi]
• Combining Textual and Visual Features for Image RetrievalJosé Luis Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena-Román, Ana García-Serrano, José Carlos González Cristóbal. 680-691 [doi]
• Supervised Machine Learning Based Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2005Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya. 692-701 [doi]
• Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images by Combining Global FeaturesMark Oliver Güld, Christian Thies, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas Martin Lehmann. 702-711 [doi]
• Combining Textual and Visual Features for Cross-Language Medical Image RetrievalPei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang. 712-723 [doi]
• The Use of MedGIFT and EasyIR for ImageCLEF 2005Henning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Johan Marty, Christian Lovis, Patrick Ruch. 724-732 [doi]
• Retrieving Images Using Cross-Language Text and Image FeaturesMirna Adriani, Framadhan Arnely. 733-736 [doi]
• UB at CLEF 2005: Bilingual CLIR and Medical Image Retrieval TasksMiguel E. Ruiz, Sílvia Barcellos Southwick. 737-743 [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval TrackRyen W. White, Douglas W. Oard, Gareth J. F. Jones, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang. 744-759 [doi]
• Using Various Indexing Schemes and Multiple Translations in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2005Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Muath Alzghool, Aminul Islam. 760-768 [doi]
• The University of Alicante at CL-SR TrackRafael M. Terol, Manuel Palomar, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Elisa Noguera. 769-772 [doi]
• Pitt at CLEF05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document RetrievalDaqing He, Jae-wook Ahn. 773-782 [doi]
• UNED@CL-SR CLEF 2005: Mixing Different Strategies to Retrieve Automatic Speech TranscriptionsFernando López-Ostenero, Víctor Peinado, Valentín Sama, Felisa Verdejo. 783-791 [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) ExperimentsAdenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones. 792-799 [doi]
• CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion Using Side Collections and ThesauriJianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard. 800-809 [doi]
• Overview of WebCLEF 2005Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke. 810-824 [doi]
• EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web CorpusBörkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke. 825-836 [doi]
• Web Retrieval Experiments with the EuroGOV Corpus at the University of HildesheimNiels Jensen, René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Robert Strötgen. 837-845 [doi]
• Danish and Greek Web Search Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServer:::TM::: at CLEF 2005Stephen Tomlinson. 846-855 [doi]
• Combination Methods for Crosslingual Web RetrievalJaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. 856-864 [doi]
• University of Alicante at the CLEF 2005 WebCLEF TrackTrinitario Martínez, Elisa Noguera, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis. 865-868 [doi]
• MIRACLE at WebCLEF 2005: Combining Web Specific and Linguistic InformationÁngel Martínez-González, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Julio Villena-Román. 869-872 [doi]
• BUAP-UPV TPIRS: A System for Document Indexing Reduction at WebCLEFDavid Pinto, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis. 873-879 [doi]
• Web Page Retrieval by Combining EvidenceCarlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana. 880-887 [doi]
• UNED at WebCLEF 2005Javier Artiles, Víctor Peinado, Anselmo Peñas, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo. 888-891 [doi]
• Using the Web Information Structure for Retrieving Web PagesMirna Adriani, Rama Pandugita. 892-897 [doi]
• University of Glasgow at WebCLEF 2005: Experiments in Per-Field Normalisation and Language Specific StemmingCraig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis. 898-907 [doi]
• GeoCLEF: The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track OverviewFredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Paul Clough, Vivien Petras. 908-919 [doi]
• MIRACLE at GeoCLEF 2005: First Experiments in Geographical IRSara Lana-Serrano, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González Cristóbal. 920-923 [doi]
• University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005Óscar Ferrández, Zornitsa Kozareva, Antonio Toral, Elisa Noguera, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis. 924-927 [doi]
• Evaluating Geographic Information RetrievalAndrás Kornai. 928-938 [doi]
• Using the WordNet Ontology in the GeoCLEF Geographical Information Retrieval TaskDavide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal. 939-946 [doi]
• The GeoTALP-IR System at GeoCLEF 2005: Experiments Using a QA-Based IR System, Linguistic Analysis, and a Geographical ThesaurusDaniel Ferrés, Alicia Ageno, Horacio Rodríguez. 947-955 [doi]
• CSUSM Experiments in GeoCLEF2005: Monolingual and Bilingual TasksRocio Guillén. 956-962 [doi]
• Berkeley at GeoCLEF: Logistic Regression and Fusion for Geographic Information RetrievalRay R. Larson, Fredric C. Gey, Vivien Petras. 963-976 [doi]
• Using Semantic Networks for Geographic Information RetrievalJohannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf, Dirk Veiel. 977-986 [doi]
• Experiments with Geo-Filtering Predicates for IRJochen L. Leidner. 987-996 [doi]
• The XLDB Group at GeoCLEF 2005Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Leonardo Andrade, Mário J. Silva. 997-1006 [doi]
• Portuguese at CLEF 2005Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso. 1007-1010 [doi]