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- What Happened in CLEF 2006Carol Peters. 1-10 [doi]
- Scientific Data of an Evaluation Campaign: Do We Properly Deal with Them?Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro. 11-20 [doi]
- CLEF 2006: Ad Hoc Track OverviewGiorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters. 21-34 [doi]
- Hindi, Telugu, Oromo, English CLIR EvaluationPrasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma. 35-42 [doi]
- Amharic-English Information RetrievalAtelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker. 43-50 [doi]
- The University of Lisbon at CLEF 2006 Ad-Hoc TaskNuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Bruno Martins. 51-56 [doi]
- Query and Document Translation for English-Indonesian Cross Language IRHerika Hayurani, Syandra Sari, Mirna Adriani. 57-61 [doi]
- Passage Retrieval vs. Document Retrieval in the CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Monolingual Tasks with the IR-n SystemElisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis. 62-65 [doi]
- The PUCRS NLP-Group Participation in CLEF2006: Information Retrieval Based on Linguistic ResourcesMarco Gonzalez, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima. 66-73 [doi]
- NLP-Driven Constructive Learning for Filtering an IR Document StreamJoão Marcelo Azevedo Arcoverde, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes. 74-82 [doi]
- ENSM-SE at CLEF 2006 : Fuzzy Proxmity Method with an Adhoc Influence FunctionAnnabelle Mercier, Michel Beigbeder. 83-90 [doi]
- A Study on the Use of Stemming for Monolingual Ad-Hoc Portuguese Information RetrievalViviane Moreira Orengo, Luciana S. Buriol, Alexandre Ramos Coelho. 91-98 [doi]
- Benefits of Resource-Based Stemming in Hungarian Information RetrievalPéter Halácsy, Viktor Trón. 99-106 [doi]
- Statistical vs. Rule-Based Stemming for Monolingual French RetrievalPrasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Kalyankumar Datta. 107-110 [doi]
- A First Approach to CLIR Using Character ::::N:::: -Grams AlignmentJesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait. 111-118 [doi]
- SINAI at CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Robust Multilingual Track: Query Expansion Using the Google Search EngineFernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. 119-126 [doi]
- Robust Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments with French and English at the University of HildesheimThomas Mandl, René Hackl, Christa Womser-Hacker. 127-128 [doi]
- Comparing the Robustness of Expansion Techniques and Retrieval MeasuresStephen Tomlinson. 129-136 [doi]
- Experiments with Monolingual, Bilingual, and Robust RetrievalJacques Savoy, Samir Abdou. 137-144 [doi]
- Local Query Expansion Using Terms Windows for Robust RetrievalÁngel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Carlos G. Figuerola. 145-152 [doi]
- Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Robust Cross Language TrackAdenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones. 153-156 [doi]
- JHU/APL Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2006Paul McNamee. 157-162 [doi]
- The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2006: Overview of Approaches, Results and AssessmentMaximilian Stempfhuber, Stefan Baerisch. 163-169 [doi]
- Reranking Documents with Antagonistic TermsJohannes Leveling. 170-173 [doi]
- Domain Specific Retrieval: Back to BasicsRay R. Larson. 174-177 [doi]
- Monolingual Retrieval Experiments with a Domain-Specific Document Corpus at the Chemnitz University of TechnologyJens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl. 178-185 [doi]
- iCLEF 2006 Overview: Searching the Flickr WWW Photo-Sharing RepositoryJussi Karlgren, Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough. 186-194 [doi]
- Are Users Willing to Search Cross-Language? An Experiment with the Flickr Image Sharing RepositoryJavier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Fernando López-Ostenero, Víctor Peinado. 195-204 [doi]
- Providing Multilingual Access to FLICKR for Arabic UsersPaul Clough, Azzah Al-Maskari, Kareem Darwish. 205-216 [doi]
- Trusting the Results in Cross-Lingual Keyword-Based Image RetrievalJussi Karlgren, Fredrik Olsson. 217-222 [doi]
- Overview of the CLEF 2006 Multilingual Question Answering TrackBernardo Magnini, Danilo Giampiccolo, Pamela Forner, Christelle Ayache, Valentin Jijkoun, Petya Osenova, Anselmo Peñas, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe. 223-256 [doi]
- Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2006Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Valentín Sama, Felisa Verdejo. 257-264 [doi]
- Overview of the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke. 265-274 [doi]
- Re-ranking Passages with LSA in a Question Answering SystemDavid Tomás, José Luis Vicedo González. 275-279 [doi]
- Question Types Specification for the Use of Specialized Patterns in Prodicos SystemEmmanuel Desmontils, Christine Jacquin, Laura Monceaux. 280-289 [doi]
- Answer Translation: An Alternative Approach to Cross-Lingual Question AnsweringJohan Bos, Malvina Nissim. 290-299 [doi]
- Priberam s Question Answering System in a Cross-Language EnvironmentAdán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto, Daniel Vidal. 300-309 [doi]
- LCC s PowerAnswer at QA@CLEF 2006Mitchell Bowden, Marian Olteanu, Pasin Suriyentrakorn, Jonathan Clark, Dan I. Moldovan. 310-317 [doi]
- Using Syntactic Knowledge for QAGosse Bouma, Ismail Fahmi, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann. 318-327 [doi]
- A Cross-Lingual German-English Framework for Open-Domain Question AnsweringBogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann. 328-338 [doi]
- Cross Lingual Question Answering Using QRISTAL for CLEF 2006Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, Sophie Nègre. 339-350 [doi]
- CLEF2006 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyEdward W. D. Whittaker, Josef R. Novak, Pierre Chatain, Paul R. Dixon, Matthias H. Heie, Sadaoki Furui. 351-361 [doi]
- Quartz: A Question Answering System for DutchDavid Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang. 362-371 [doi]
- Experiments on Applying a Text Summarization System for Question AnsweringPedro Paulo Balage Filho, Vinícius Rodrigues de Uzêda, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes. 372-376 [doi]
- ::::N:::: -Gram vs. Keyword-Based Passage Retrieval for Question AnsweringDavide Buscaldi, José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis. 377-384 [doi]
- Cross-Lingual Romanian to English Question Answering at CLEF 2006Georgiana Puscasu, Adrian Iftene, Ionut Pistol, Diana Trandabat, Dan Tufis, Alin Ceausu, Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion, Iustin Dornescu, Mihai Alex Moruz, Dan Cristea. 385-394 [doi]
- Finding Answers in the OEdipe System by Extracting and Applying Linguistic PatternsRomaric Besançon, Mehdi Embarek, Olivier Ferret. 395-404 [doi]
- Question Answering Beyond CLEF Document CollectionsLuís Costa. 405-414 [doi]
- Using Machine Learning and Text Mining in Question AnsweringAntonio Juárez-González, Alberto Téllez-Valero, Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda. 415-423 [doi]
- Applying Dependency Trees and Term Density for Answer Selection ReinforcementManuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Aarón Pancardo-Rodríguez. 424-431 [doi]
- Interpretation and Normalization of Temporal Expressions for Question AnsweringSven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling. 432-439 [doi]
- Relevance Measures for Question Answering, The LIA at QA@CLEF-2006Laurent Gillard, Laurianne Sitbon, Eric Blaudez, Patrice Bellot, Marc El-Bèze. 440-449 [doi]
- Monolingual and Cross-Lingual QA Using AliQAn and BRILI Systems for CLEF 2006Sergio Ferrández, P. López-Moreno, Sandra Roger, Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral, X. Alvarado, Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis. 450-453 [doi]
- The Bilingual System MUSCLEF at QA@CLEF 2006Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat, Michael Bagur, Kevin Séjourné. 454-462 [doi]
- MIRACLE Experiments in QA@CLEF 2006 in Spanish: Main Task, Real-Time QA and Exploratory QA Using Wikipedia (WiQA)César de Pablo-Sánchez, Ana González-Ledesma, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Maria Teresa Vicente-Díez. 463-472 [doi]
- A First Step to Address Biography Generation as an Iterative QA TaskLuís Sarmento. 473-482 [doi]
- The Effect of Entity Recognition on Answer ValidationÁlvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jesús Herrera, Felisa Verdejo. 483-489 [doi]
- A Knowledge-Based Textual Entailment Approach Applied to the AVE TaskÓscar Ferrández, Rafael M. Terol, Rafael Muñoz, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Manuel Palomar. 490-493 [doi]
- Automatic Answer Validation Using COGEXMarta Tatu, Brandon Iles, Dan I. Moldovan. 494-501 [doi]
- Paraphrase Substitution for Recognizing Textual EntailmentWauter Bosma, Chris Callison-Burch. 502-509 [doi]
- Experimenting a General Purpose Textual Entailment Learner in AVEFabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti. 510-517 [doi]
- Answer Validation Through Robust Logical InferenceIngo Glöckner. 518-521 [doi]
- University of Alicante at QA@CLEF2006: Answer Validation ExerciseZornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vázquez, Andrés Montoyo. 522-525 [doi]
- Towards Entailment-Based Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2006Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, Bonaventura Coppola. 526-536 [doi]
- Link-Based vs. Content-Based Retrieval for Question Answering Using WikipediaSisay Fissaha Adafre, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke. 537-540 [doi]
- Identifying Novel Information Using Latent Semantic Analysis in the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Josef Steinberger, Udo Kruschwitz, Mijail Alexandrov Kabadjov, Massimo Poesio. 541-549 [doi]
- A Bag-of-Words Based Ranking Method for the Wikipedia Question Answering TaskDavide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso. 550-553 [doi]
- University of Alicante at WiQA 2006Antonio Toral Ruiz, Georgiana Puscasu, Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo, Rubén Izquierdo-Beviá, Estela Saquete Boró. 554-560 [doi]
- A High Precision Information Retrieval Method for WiQAConstantin Orasan, Georgiana Puscasu. 561-568 [doi]
- QolA: Fostering Collaboration Within QADiana Santos, Luís Costa. 569-578 [doi]
- Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 Photographic Retrieval and Object Annotation TasksPaul Clough, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller. 579-594 [doi]
- Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2006 Medical Retrieval and Medical Annotation TasksHenning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Paul Clough, Eugene Kim, William R. Hersh. 595-608 [doi]
- Text Retrieval and Blind Feedback for the ImageCLEFphoto TaskRay R. Larson. 609-612 [doi]
- Expanding Queries Through Word Sense DisambiguationJosé Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ana M. García-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, Paloma Martínez. 613-616 [doi]
- Using Visual Linkages for Multilingual Image RetrievalMasashi Inoue. 617-624 [doi]
- Approaches of Using a Word-Image Ontology and an Annotated Image Corpus as Intermedia for Cross-Language Image RetrievalYih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen. 625-632 [doi]
- Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Experiments for the ImageCLEF Photo Collection Standard Ad Hoc TaskKieran McDonald, Gareth J. F. Jones. 633-637 [doi]
- Image Classification with a Frequency-Based Information Retrieval Scheme for ImageCLEFmed 2006Henning Müller, Tobias Gass, Antoine Geissbühler. 638-643 [doi]
- Grayscale Radiograph Annotation Using Local Relational FeaturesLokesh Setia, Alexandra Teynor, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt. 644-651 [doi]
- MorphoSaurus in ImageCLEF 2006: The Effect of Subwords On Biomedical IRPhilipp Daumke, Jan Paetzold, Kornél G. Markó. 652-659 [doi]
- Medical Image Retrieval and Automated Annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2006William R. Hersh, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Jeffery R. Jensen. 660-669 [doi]
- MedIC at ImageCLEF 2006: Automatic Image Categorization and Annotation Using Combined Visual RepresentationsFilip Florea, Alexandrina Rogozan, Eugen Barbu, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Stéfan Jacques Darmoni. 670-677 [doi]
- Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval Using Visual FeaturesJing Liu, Yang Hu, Mingjing Li, Songde Ma, Wei-Ying Ma. 678-685 [doi]
- Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2006 Medical Automatic Annotation TaskMark Oliver Güld, Christian Thies, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas Martin Deserno. 686-689 [doi]
- A Refined SVM Applied in Medical Image AnnotationBo Qiu. 690-693 [doi]
- Inter-media Concept-Based Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval with UMLS at IPALCaroline Lacoste, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Diem Thi Hoang Le, Wei Xiong, Daniel Racoceanu, Roxana Teodorescu, Nicolas Vuillenemot. 694-701 [doi]
- UB at ImageCLEFmed 2006Miguel E. Ruiz. 702-705 [doi]
- Translation by Text Categorisation: Medical Image Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2006Julien Gobeill, Henning Müller, Patrick Ruch. 706-710 [doi]
- Using Information Gain to Improve the ImageCLEF 2006 CollectionManuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Maite Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. 711-714 [doi]
- CINDI at ImageCLEF 2006: Image Retrieval & Annotation Tasks for the General Photographic and Medical Image CollectionsMd. Mahmudur Rahman, Varun Sood, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya. 715-724 [doi]
- Image Retrieval and Annotation Using Maximum EntropyThomas Deselaers, Tobias Weyand, Hermann Ney. 725-734 [doi]
- Inter-media Pseudo-relevance Feedback Application to ImageCLEF 2006 Photo RetrievalNicolas Maillot, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim. 735-738 [doi]
- ImageCLEF 2006 Experiments at the Chemnitz Technical UniversityThomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl. 739-743 [doi]
- Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval TrackDouglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ryen W. White, Pavel Pecina, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, Izhak Shafran. 744-758 [doi]
- Benefit of Proper Language Processing for Czech Speech Retrieval in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2006Pavel Ircing, Ludek Müller. 759-765 [doi]
- Applying Logic Forms and Statistical Methods to CL-SR PerformanceRafael M. Terol, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Manuel Palomar. 766-769 [doi]
- XML Information Retrieval from Spoken Word ArchivesRobin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Roeland Ordelman, Laurens van der Werff, Franciska de Jong. 770-777 [doi]
- Experiments for the Cross Language Speech Retrieval Task at CLEF 2006Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen. 778-785 [doi]
- CLEF-2006 CL-SR at Maryland: English and CzechJianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard. 786-793 [doi]
- Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) ExperimentsGareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina. 794-802 [doi]
- Overview of WebCLEF 2006Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke. 803-819 [doi]
- Improving Web Pages Retrieval Using Combined FieldsCarlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez. 820-825 [doi]
- A Penalisation-Based Ranking Approach for the Mixed Monolingual Task of WebCLEF 2006David Pinto, Paolo Rosso, Ernesto Jiménez. 826-829 [doi]
- Index Combinations and Query Reformulations for Mixed Monolingual Web RetrievalKrisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke. 830-833 [doi]
- Multilingual Web Retrieval Experiments with Field Specific Indexing Strategies for WebCLEF 2006 at the University of HildesheimBen Heuwing, Thomas Mandl, Robert Strötgen. 834-837 [doi]
- Vocabulary Reduction and Text Enrichment at WebCLEFFranco Rojas López, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, David Pinto. 838-843 [doi]
- Experiments with the 4 Query Sets of WebCLEF 2006Stephen Tomlinson. 844-847 [doi]
- Applying Relevance Feedback for Retrieving Web-Page RetrievalSyntia Wijaya, Bimo Widhi, Tommy Khoerniawan, Mirna Adriani. 848-851 [doi]
- GeoCLEF 2006: The CLEF 2006 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track OverviewFredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker, Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro. 852-876 [doi]
- MIRACLE s Ad-Hoc and Geographical IR Approaches for CLEF 2006José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González Cristóbal, Sara Lana-Serrano, Ángel Martínez-González. 877-880 [doi]
- GIR ExperimentationGeoffrey Andogah. 881-888 [doi]
- GIR with Geographic Query ExpansionAntonio Toral, Óscar Ferrández, Elisa Noguera, Zornitsa Kozareva, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz. 889-892 [doi]
- Monolingual and Bilingual Experiments in GeoCLEF2006Rocio Guillén. 893-900 [doi]
- Experiments on the Exclusion of Metonymic Location Names from GIRJohannes Leveling, Dirk Veiel. 901-904 [doi]
- The University of New South Wales at GeoCLEF 2006You-Heng Hu, Linlin Ge. 905-912 [doi]
- GEOUJA System. The First Participation of the University of Jaén at GEOCLEF 2006Manuel García Vega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, José M. Perea-Ortega. 913-917 [doi]
- R2D2 at GeoCLEF 2006: A Combined ApproachManuel García Vega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, José M. Perea-Ortega, Francisco Javier Ariza-López, Óscar Ferrández, Antonio Toral, Zornitsa Kozareva, Elisa Noguera, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso. 918-925 [doi]
- MSRA Columbus at GeoCLEF 2006Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang, Wei-Ying Ma. 926-929 [doi]
- Forostar: A System for GIRSimon E. Overell, João Magalhães, Stefan M. Rüger. 930-937 [doi]
- NICTA I2D2 Group at GeoCLEF 2006Yi Li, Nicola Stokes, Lawrence Cavedon, Alistair Moffat. 938-945 [doi]
- Blind Relevance Feedback and Named Entity Based Query Expansion for Geographic Retrieval at GeoCLEF 2006Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker. 946-953 [doi]
- A WordNet-Based Indexing Technique for Geographical Information RetrievalDavide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis. 954-957 [doi]
- University of Twente at GeoCLEF 2006: Geofiltered Document RetrievalClaudia Hauff, Dolf Trieschnigg, Henning Rode. 958-961 [doi]
- TALP at GeoCLEF 2006: Experiments Using JIRS and Lucene with the ADL Feature Type ThesaurusDaniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez. 962-969 [doi]
- GeoCLEF Text Retrieval and Manual Expansion ApproachesRay R. Larson, Fredric C. Gey. 970-977 [doi]
- UB at GeoCLEF 2006Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart Shapiro, Sílvia Barcellos Southwick. 978-985 [doi]
- The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Leonardo Andrade, Mário J. Silva. 986-994 [doi]