Table of Contents

• What Happened in CLEF 2007Carol Peters. 1-12 [doi]
• CLEF 2007: Ad Hoc Track OverviewGiorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters. 13-32 [doi]
• Charles University at CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc TrackPavel Ceska, Pavel Pecina. 33-36 [doi]
• Stemming Approaches for East European LanguagesLjiljana Dolamic, Jacques Savoy. 37-44 [doi]
• Applying Query Expansion Techniques to Ad Hoc Monolingual Tasks with the IR-n SystemElisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis. 45-48 [doi]
• Bulgarian, Hungarian and Czech Stemming Using YASSPrasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Dipasree Pal. 49-56 [doi]
• Sampling Precision to Depth 10000 at CLEF 2007Stephen Tomlinson. 57-63 [doi]
• Disambiguation and Unknown Term Translation in Cross Language Information RetrievalDong Zhou, Mark Truran, Tim J. Brailsford. 64-71 [doi]
• Cross-Language Retrieval with WikipediaPéter Schönhofen, András A. Benczúr, István Bíró, Károly Csalogány. 72-79 [doi]
• Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System for Indian LanguagesJagadeesh Jagarlamudi, A. Kumaran. 80-87 [doi]
• Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-Hoc Bilingual Task at CLEF 2007Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Tapabrata Mondal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque, Srinivasa Rao Godhavarthy. 88-94 [doi]
• Bengali and Hindi to English CLIR EvaluationDebasis Mandal, Mayank Gupta, Sandipan Dandapat, Pratyush Banerjee, Sudeshna Sarkar. 95-102 [doi]
• Improving Recall for Hindi, Telugu, Oromo to English CLIRPrasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma. 103-110 [doi]
• Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval EvaluationManoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Damani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 111-118 [doi]
• Amharic-English Information Retrieval with Pseudo Relevance FeedbackAtelach Alemu Argaw. 119-126 [doi]
• Indonesian-English Transitive Translation for Cross-Language Information RetrievalMirna Adriani, Herika Hayurani, Syandra Sari. 127-133 [doi]
• Robust Retrieval Experiments at the University of HildesheimBen Heuwing, Thomas Mandl. 134-136 [doi]
• SINAI at CLEF Ad-Hoc Robust Track 2007: Applying Google Search Engine for Robust Cross-Lingual RetrievalFernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras. 137-142 [doi]
• Improving Robustness Using Query ExpansionÁngel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Carlos G. Figuerola. 143-147 [doi]
• English-to-French CLIR: A Knowledge-Light Approach through Character N-Grams AlignmentJesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, Manuel Vilares Ferro. 148-155 [doi]
• MIRACLE Progress in Monolingual Information Retrieval at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2007José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano. 156-159 [doi]
• The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2007Vivien Petras, Stefan Baerisch, Maximilian Stempfhuber. 160-173 [doi]
• The XTRIEVAL Framework at CLEF 2007: Domain-Specific TrackJens Kürsten, Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl. 174-181 [doi]
• Query Translation through Dictionary AdaptationStéphane Clinchant, Jean-Michel Renders. 182-187 [doi]
• Experiments in Classification Clustering and Thesaurus Expansion for Domain Specific Cross-Language RetrievalRay R. Larson. 188-195 [doi]
• Domain-Specific IR for German, English and Russian LanguagesClaire Fautsch, Ljiljana Dolamic, Samir Abdou, Jacques Savoy. 196-199 [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF 2007 Multilingual Question Answering TrackDanilo Giampiccolo, Pamela Forner, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Christelle Ayache, Corina Forascu, Valentin Jijkoun, Petya Osenova, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe. 200-236 [doi]
• Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2007Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Felisa Verdejo. 237-248 [doi]
• Overview of QAST 2007Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Christelle Ayache, Djamel Mostefa, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel. 249-256 [doi]
• Question Answering with Joost at CLEF 2007Gosse Bouma, Geert Kloosterman, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann. 257-260 [doi]
• What Happened to Esfinge in 2007?Luís Miguel Cabral, Luís Fernando Costa, Diana Santos. 261-268 [doi]
• Coreference Resolution for Questions and Answer Merging by ValidationSven Hartrumpf, Ingo Glöckner, Johannes Leveling. 269-272 [doi]
• Multilingual Question Answering through Intermediate Translation: LCC s PowerAnswer at QA@CLEF 2007Mitchell Bowden, Marian Olteanu, Pasin Suriyentrakorn, Thomas D Silva, Dan I. Moldovan. 273-283 [doi]
• RACAI s Question Answering System at QA@CLEF2007Dan Tufis, Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceausu. 284-291 [doi]
• DFKI-LT at QA@CLEF 2007Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann, Christian Spurk. 292-299 [doi]
• University of Wolverhampton at CLEF 2007Georgiana Puscasu, Constantin Orasan. 300-307 [doi]
• Bilingual Question Answering Using CINDI QA at QA@CLEF 2007Chedid Haddad, Bipin C. Desai. 308-315 [doi]
• The University of Évora s Participation in QA@CLEF-2007José Saias, Paulo Quaresma. 316-323 [doi]
• Web-Based Anaphora Resolution for the QUASAR Question Answering SystemDavide Buscaldi, Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis. 324-327 [doi]
• A Lexical Approach for Spanish Question AnsweringAlberto Téllez-Valero, Antonio Juárez, Gustavo Hernández, Claudia Denicia, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda. 328-331 [doi]
• Finding Answers Using Resources in the InternetMirna Adriani, Septian Adiwibowo. 332-335 [doi]
• UAIC Romanian QA System for QA@CLEFAdrian Iftene, Diana Trandabat, Ionut Pistol, Mihai Alex Moruz, Alexandra Balahur, Diana Cotelea, Iustin Dornescu, Iuliana Draghici, Dan Cristea. 336-343 [doi]
• The University of Amsterdam s Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2007Valentin Jijkoun, Katja Hofmann, David Ahn, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang. 344-351 [doi]
• Combining Wikipedia and Newswire Texts for Question Answering in SpanishCésar de Pablo-Sánchez, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ana González-Ledesma, Doaa Samy, Paloma Martínez, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Harith T. Al-Jumaily. 352-355 [doi]
• QA@L2F, First Steps at QA@CLEFAna Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, David Martins de Matos. 356-363 [doi]
• Priberam s Question Answering System in QA@CLEF 2007Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto, Daniel Vidal. 364-371 [doi]
• Combining Logic and Aggregation for Answer SelectionIngo Glöckner. 372-376 [doi]
• On the Application of Lexical-Syntactic Knowledge to the Answer Validation ExerciseÓscar Ferrández, Daniel Micol, Rafael Muñoz, Manuel Palomar. 377-380 [doi]
• Combining Lexical Information with Machine Learning for Answer Validation at QA@CLEF 2007Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, José M. Perea-Ortega, Fernando Martínez Santiago, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. 381-386 [doi]
• Using Recognizing Textual Entailment as a Core Engine for Answer ValidationRui Wang, Günter Neumann. 387-390 [doi]
• A Supervised Learning Approach to Spanish Answer ValidationAlberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda. 391-394 [doi]
• UAIC Participation at AVE 2007Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu. 395-403 [doi]
• UNED at Answer Validation Exercise 2007Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo. 404-409 [doi]
• Adapting QA Components to Mine Answers in Speech TranscriptsGünter Neumann, Rui Wang. 410-413 [doi]
• The LIMSI Participation in the QAst TrackSophie Rosset, Olivier Galibert, Gilles Adda, Eric Bilinski. 414-423 [doi]
• Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcripts Using Minimal Syntactic AnalysisPere Comas, Jordi Turmo, Mihai Surdeanu. 424-432 [doi]
• Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2007 Photographic Retrieval TaskMichael Grubinger, Paul Clough, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller. 433-444 [doi]
• Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 Object Retrieval TaskThomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Ville Viitaniemi, András A. Benczúr, Mátyás Brendel, Bálint Daróczy, Hugo Jair Escalante Balderas, Theo Gevers, Carlos Arturo Hernández Gracidas, Steven C. H. Hoi, Jorma Laaksonen, Mingjing Li, Heidy Marisol Marín Castro, Hermann Ney, Xiaoguang Rui, Nicu Sebe, Julian Stöttinger, Lei Wu. 445-471 [doi]
• Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2007 Medical Retrieval and Medical Annotation TasksHenning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Eugene Kim, William R. Hersh. 472-491 [doi]
• FIRE in ImageCLEF 2007: Support Vector Machines and Logistic Models to Fuse Image Descriptors for Photo RetrievalTobias Gass, Tobias Weyand, Thomas Deselaers, Hermann Ney. 492-499 [doi]
• MIRACLE at ImageCLEFphoto 2007: Evaluation of Merging Strategies for Multilingual and Multimedia Information RetrievalJulio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, José Carlos González Cristóbal. 500-503 [doi]
• Using an Image-Text Parallel Corpus and the Web for Query Expansion in Cross-Language Image RetrievalYih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen. 504-511 [doi]
• SINAI System: Combining IR Systems at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. 512-517 [doi]
• Multimodal Retrieval by Text-Segment BiclusteringAndrás A. Benczúr, István Bíró, Mátyás Brendel, Károly Csalogány, Bálint Daróczy, Dávid Siklósi. 518-521 [doi]
• Analysing an Approach to Information Retrieval of Visual Descriptions with IR-n, a System Based on PassagesSergio Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Elisa Noguera. 522-529 [doi]
• DCU and UTA at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007Anni Järvelin, Peter Wilkins, Tomasz Adamek, Eija Airio, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Eero Sormunen. 530-537 [doi]
• Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval: An Empirical Study at ImageCLEF2007Steven C. H. Hoi. 538-545 [doi]
• Towards Annotation-Based Query and Document Expansion for Image RetrievalHugo Jair Escalante, Carlos Hernández, Aurelio López-López, Heidy Marin-Castro, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Eduardo F. Morales, Luis Enrique Sucar, Luis Villaseñor Pineda. 546-553 [doi]
• Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Combined 2D Attribute Pattern SpectraFlorence Tushabe, Michael H. F. Wilkinson. 554-561 [doi]
• Text-Based Clustering of the ImageCLEFphoto Collection for Augmenting the Retrieved ResultsOsama El Demerdash, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler. 562-568 [doi]
• Trans-Media Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Methods in Multimedia RetrievalStéphane Clinchant, Jean-Michel Renders, Gabriela Csurka. 569-576 [doi]
• Cue Integration for Medical Image AnnotationTatiana Tommasi, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo. 577-584 [doi]
• Multiplying Concept Sources for Graph ModelingLoïc Maisonnasse, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Pierre Chevallet. 585-592 [doi]
• MIRACLE at ImageCLEFmed 2007: Merging Textual and Visual Strategies to Improve Medical Image RetrievalJulio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Carlos González Cristóbal. 593-596 [doi]
• MIRACLE at ImageCLEFanot 2007: Machine Learning Experiments on Medical Image AnnotationSara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo. 597-600 [doi]
• Integrating MeSH Ontology to Improve Medical Information RetrievalManuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, M. T. Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, L. A. Ureña-López. 601-606 [doi]
• Speeding Up IDM without Degradation of Retrieval QualityMichael Springmann, Heiko Schuldt. 607-614 [doi]
• Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval Using Low-Level Visual Features and Modality IdentificationJuan C. Caicedo, Fabio A. González, Eduardo Romero. 615-622 [doi]
• Medical Image Retrieval and Automatic Annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2007Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, William R. Hersh. 623-630 [doi]
• Using Bayesian Network for Conceptual Indexing: Application to Medical Document Indexing with UMLS MetathesaurusDiem Thi Hoang Le, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim. 631-636 [doi]
• Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2007 Medical Automatic Annotation Task Using Global Image FeaturesMark Oliver Güld, Thomas Martin Deserno. 637-640 [doi]
• Evaluation of Automatically Assigned MeSH Terms for Retrieval of Medical ImagesMiguel E. Ruiz, Aurélie Névéol. 641-648 [doi]
• University and Hospitals of Geneva Participating at ImageCLEF 2007Xin Zhou, Julien Gobeill, Patrick Ruch, Henning Müller. 649-656 [doi]
• An Interactive and Dynamic Fusion-Based Image Retrieval Approach by CINDIMd. Mahmudur Rahman, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya. 657-664 [doi]
• Using Pseudo-Relevance Feedback to Improve Image Retrieval ResultsMouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem. 665-673 [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval TrackPavel Pecina, Petra Hoffmannová, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ying Zhang, Douglas W. Oard. 674-686 [doi]
• A Dirichlet-Smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous SpeechMatthew Lease, Eugene Charniak. 687-694 [doi]
• Model Fusion Experiments for the CLSR Task at CLEF 2007Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen. 695-702 [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2007: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval ExperimentsYing Zhang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang. 703-711 [doi]
• What Can and Cannot Be Found in Czech Spontaneous Speech Using Document-Oriented IR Methods - UWB at CLEF 2007 CL-SR TrackPavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Jan Vavruska. 712-718 [doi]
• Using Information Gain to Filter Information in CLEF CL-SR TrackManuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. 719-724 [doi]
• Overview of WebCLEF 2007Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke. 725-731 [doi]
• Segmentation of Web Documents and Retrieval of Useful PassagesCarlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez. 732-736 [doi]
• Using Centrality to Rank Web SnippetsValentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke. 737-741 [doi]
• Using Web-Content for Retrieving SnippetsOkky Hendriansyah, Tri Firgantoro, Mirna Adriani. 742-744 [doi]
• GeoCLEF 2007: The CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track OverviewThomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker, Xing Xie. 745-772 [doi]
• Inferring Location Names for Geographic Information RetrievalJohannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf. 773-780 [doi]
• GeoParsing Web QueriesRocio Guillén. 781-785 [doi]
• MIRACLE at GeoCLEF Query Parsing 2007: Extraction and Classification of Geographical InformationSara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo. 786-793 [doi]
• Relevance Measures Using Geographic Scopes and TypesGeoffrey Andogah, Gosse Bouma. 794-801 [doi]
• Using Geographic Signatures as Query and Document Scopes in Geographic IRNuno Cardoso, David Cruz, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Mário J. Silva. 802-810 [doi]
• Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2007: Retesting Text Retrieval BaselinesRay R. Larson. 811-814 [doi]
• On the Relative Importance of Toponyms in GeoCLEFDavide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso. 815-822 [doi]
• Filtering for Improving the Geographic Information SearchJosé M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel García Vega, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. 823-829 [doi]
• TALP at GeoCLEF 2007: Results of a Geographical Knowledge Filtering Approach with TerrierDaniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez. 830-833 [doi]
• TALP at GeoQuery 2007: Linguistic and Geographical Analysis for Query ParsingDaniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez. 834-837 [doi]
• Applying Geo-feedback to Geographic Information RetrievalMirna Adriani, Nasikhin. 838-841 [doi]
• Exploring LDA-Based Document Model for Geographic Information RetrievalZhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang, Wei-Ying Ma. 842-849 [doi]
• Mono-and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments with Spatial Restrictions at GeoCLEF 2007Ralph Kölle, Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker. 850-855 [doi]
• GIR Experiments with ForostarSimon E. Overell, João Magalhães, Stefan M. Rüger. 856-863 [doi]
• Morpho Challenge Evaluation Using a Linguistic Gold StandardMikko Kurimo, Mathias Creutz, Matti Varjokallio. 864-872 [doi]
• Simple Morpheme Labelling in Unsupervised Morpheme AnalysisDelphine Bernhard. 873-880 [doi]
• Unsupervised and Knowledge-Free Morpheme Segmentation and AnalysisStefan Bordag. 881-891
• Unsupervised Acquiring of Morphological Paradigms from Tokenized TextDaniel Zeman. 892-899 [doi]
• ParaMor: Finding Paradigms across MorphologyChristian Monson, Jaime G. Carbonell, Alon Lavie, Lori S. Levin. 900-907 [doi]
• SemEval-2007 Task 01: Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information RetrievalEneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Bernardo Magnini, Arantxa Otegi, German Rigau, Piek Vossen. 908-917 [doi]