Table of Contents

• Cross-Language French-English Question Answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2004Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay, Michael Mulcahy, Aoife O'Gorman. [doi]
• Report on the CLEF Experiment: Combining Image and Multilingual Search for Medical Image RetrievalHenning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Patrick Ruch. [doi]
• Ricoh at CLEF 2004Yuichi Kojima. [doi]
• The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF 2004Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, D. Ahn, K. Müller. [doi]
• Cross-Language Question Answering at the University of HelsinkiLili Aunimo, Reeta Kuuskoski, Juha Makkonen. [doi]
• UNED@ImageCLEF 2004: Using Image Captions Structure and Noun Phrase Based Query Expansion for Cross-Language Image Caption RetrievalVíctor Peinado, Javier Artiles, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo. [doi]
• How to Answer in English to Questions Asked in French: by Exploiting Results from Several Sources of InformationGuillaume Bourdil, Faza Elkateb, Brigitte Grau, Gabriel Illouz, Laura Monceaux, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat. [doi]
• Question Answering System for the French LanguageLaura Perrot. [doi]
• Visual Features for Content-based Medical Image RetrievalPeter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, Stefan M. Rüger. [doi]
• QA at ILC-UniPI: Description of the PrototypeFrancesca Bertagna, Luminita Chiran, Maria Simi. [doi]
• Bookmarking, Thesaurus, and Cooperation in Bilingual Question AnsweringJussi Karlgren, Preben Hansen, Magnus Sahlgren. [doi]
• Content-based Queries on the Casimage Database with the IRMA framework: A Field ReportChristian Thies, Mark Oliver Güld, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas Martin Lehmann. [doi]
• A Probabilistic Approach to the Medical Retrieval TaskKoen Lubbers, Arjen P. de Vries, Theo W. C. Huibers, Paul E. van der Vet. [doi]
• The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004Hristo Tanev, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, Milen Kouylekov. [doi]
• Searching a Russian Document Collection using English, Chinese and Japanese QueriesFredric C. Gey. [doi]
• FINT: Find Images aNd TextMenno van Zaanen, Guido de Croon. [doi]
• MIRACLE at ImageCLEF 2004José Luís Martínez-Fernández, Ana García-Serrano, Julio Villena, Víctor David Méndez Sáenz, Santiago González-Tortosa, Michelangelo Castagnone, Javier Alonso. [doi]
• UB at CLEF2004: Part 2 - Cross Language Medical Image RetrievalMiguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth. [doi]
• Does English help Question Answering in Spanish?José Luis Vicedo González, Maximiliano Saiz, Rubén Izquierdo. [doi]
• IR-n r2: Using Normalized PassagesFernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol, Elisa Noguera. [doi]
• First Evaluation of Esfinge - a Question Answering System for PortugueseLuís Costa. [doi]
• LIC2M Experiments at CLEF 2004Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr. [doi]
• Cross-lingual Question Answering with QEDKisuh Ahn, Beatrix Alex, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner, Matthew Smillie. [doi]
• Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information RetrievalJacques Savoy. [doi]
• The Use of Lexical Context in Question Answering for SpanishManuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, Thamar Solorio, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor Pineda. [doi]
• The XLDB Group at CLEF 2004Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Miguel Costa. [doi]
• Mono- and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of HildesheimRené Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker. [doi]
• Two-Stage Refinement of Transitive Query Translation with English Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Trial at CLEF 2004Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando, Kuang-Hua Chen. [doi]
• Issues When Building CLIR Applications: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 WorkshopGregor Thurmair. [doi]
• CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval TrackMarcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Gina-Anne Levow, Gareth J. F. Jones. [doi]
• IntroductionCarol Peters. [doi]
• IRIT at CLEF 2004: The English GIRT TaskMustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles. [doi]
• The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (ImageCLEF) 2004Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Henning Müller. [doi]
• KIDS's Evaluation in the Medical Image Retrieval Task at ImageCLEF 2004Pei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang. [doi]
• Report on Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2004Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams. [doi]
• The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with TerrierChristina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis. [doi]
• GIRT and the Use of Subject Metadata for RetrievalVivien Petras. [doi]
• LIC2M Experiments at ImageCLEF 2004Romaric Besançon, Patrick Hède, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, Christian Fluhr. [doi]
• COLE at CLEF 2004: Rapid Prototyping of a QA System for SpanishEnrique Méndez Díaz, Jesús Vilares Ferro, David Cabrero Souto. [doi]
• Caption vs. Query Translation for Cross-Language Image RetrievalPaul Clough. [doi]
• Improving Interaction with the User in Cross-Language Question Answering through Relevant Domains and Syntactic Semantic PatternsBorja Navarro, Lorenza Moreno, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo, Miguel Angel Varó. [doi]
• UB at CLEF2004: Part 1 - Monolingual and Multilingual TasksMiguel E. Ruiz, Munirathnam Srikanth. [doi]
• Pattern-based Image Retrieval with Constraints and Preferences on ImageCLEF 2004Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, José Luis Vicedo González, Rubén Izquierdo. [doi]
• NTCIR-4: Outline of Invited Talk at CLEF 2004 WorkshopNoriko Kando. [doi]
• Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEFDavid Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George F. Foster, Claude St. Jacques. [doi]
• SINAI at CLEF 2004: Using Machine Translation Resources with Mixed 2-Step RSV Merging AlgorithmFernando Martínez Santiago, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Luis Alfonso Ureña López. [doi]
• REINA at iCLEF 2004Carlos G. Figuerola, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José L. Alonso Berrocal, Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana. [doi]
• MIRACLE's Hybrid Approach to Bilingual and Monolingual Information RetrievalJosé Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González, José Luís Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena-Román, Ana M. García-Serrano, Paloma Martínez Fernández, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Javier Alonso-Sánchez. [doi]
• FIRE - Flexible Image Retrieval Engine: ImageCLEF 2004 EvaluationThomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney. [doi]
• Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image RetrievalCarmen Alvarez, Ahmed Id Oumohmed, Max Mignotte, Jian-Yun Nie. [doi]
• Using Surface-Syntactic Parser and Derivation from Randomness: X-IOTA IR System used for CLIPS Mono & Bilingual Experiments for CLEF 2004Gilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet. [doi]
• The University of Padua at CLEF 2004: Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic ResourcesGiorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Nicola Orio. [doi]
• Experiments on Robust NL Question Interpretation and Multi-layered Document Annotation for a Cross-Language Question/Answering-SystemGünter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu. [doi]
• NCTU-ISU's Evaluation for the User-Centered Search Task at ImageCLEF 2004Pei-Cheng Cheng, Jen-Yuan Yeh, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang. [doi]
• Dictionary-based Amharic - English Information RetrievalAtelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren. [doi]
• The University of Évora approach to QA@CLEF-2004Paulo Quaresma, Luis Quintano, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, José Saias, Pedro Salgueiro. [doi]
• Dynamic Lexica for Query TranslationJussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Timo Järvinen, Rickard Cöster. [doi]
• Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT for CLEF 2004Paul McNamee, James Mayfield. [doi]
• How do Named Entities Contribute to Retrieval Effectiveness?Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker. [doi]
• iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Interactive Cross-Language Question AnsweringJulio Gonzalo, Douglas W. Oard. [doi]
• TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF-2004Alicia Ageno, Daniel Ferrés, Edgar González, Samir Kanaan, Horacio Rodríguez, Mihai Surdeanu, Jordi Turmo. [doi]
• Report on the ImageCLEF Experiment: How to Visually Retrieve Images from the St. Andrews Collection using GIFTHenning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Patrick Ruch. [doi]
• From Text to Image: Generating Visual Query for Image RetrievalWen-Cheng Lin, Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering: Searching Passages versus Searching DocumentsFernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Víctor Peinado, Felisa Verdejo. [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew's CollectionGareth J. F. Jones, Declan Groves, Anna Khasin, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Bart Mellebeek, Andy Way. [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF 2004 Multilingual Question Answering TrackBernardo Magnini, Alessandro Vallin, Christelle Ayache, Gregor Erbach, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke, Paulo Rocha, Kiril Simov, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe. [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual RetrievalGareth J. F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Joachim Wagner. [doi]
• miraQA: Initial Experiments in Question AnsweringC. de Pablo, José Luís Martínez-Fernández, P. Martínez, Julio Villena, Ana M. García-Serrano, José M. Goñi, J. C. González. [doi]
• Application of Variable Length N-gram Vectors to Monolingual and Bilingual Information RetrievalDaniel Gayo-Avello, Darío Álvarez Gutiérrez, José Gayo-Avello. [doi]
• University of Chicago at CLEF2004: Cross-language Text and Spoken Document RetrievalGina-Anne Levow, Irina Matveeva. [doi]
• The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2004Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Willem Robert van Hage, Jaap Kamps, Gustavo Lacerda de Melo, Maarten de Rijke. [doi]
• Question Answering Pilot Task at CLEF 2004Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo. [doi]
• iCLEF 2004 at Maryland: Summarization Design for Interactive Cross-Language Question AnsweringDaqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard. [doi]
• University of Hagen at CLEF 2004: Indexing and Translating Concepts for the GIRT TaskJohannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf. [doi]
• CHAVE: Topics and Questions on the Portuguese Participation in CLEFDiana Santos, Paulo Rocha. [doi]
• Finnish, Portuguese and Russian Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2004Stephen Tomlinson. [doi]
• Evaluation of Complex Temporal Questions in CLEF-QAEstela Saquete, José Luis Vicedo González, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Rafael Muñoz. [doi]
• Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information RetrievalJacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger. [doi]
• Question Answering using Sentence Parsing and Semantic Network MatchingSven Hartrumpf. [doi]
• Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language ResourcesPetya Osenova, Alexander Simov, Kiril Simov, Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov. [doi]