Table of Contents

• INAOE-UPV Joint Participation in CLEF 2005: Experiments in Monolingual Question AnsweringManuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Emilio Sanchis Arnal, Paolo Rosso. [doi]
• FIRE in ImageCLEF 2005: Combining Content-based Image Retrieval with Textual Information RetrievalThomas Deselaers, Tobias Weyand, Daniel Keysers, Wolfgang Macherey, Hermann Ney. [doi]
• Cross Lingual Question Answering using QRISTAL for CLEF 2005Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, Sophie Nègre. [doi]
• Berkeley2 at GeoCLEF: Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval of German and English DocumentsVivien Petras, Fredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Concept Hierarchy across Languages in Text-Based Image Retrieval: A User EvaluationDaniela Petrelli, Paul Clough. [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. [doi]
• Boolean Operators in Interactive SearchJulio Villena-Román, Raquel M. Crespo García, José Carlos González Cristóbal. [doi]
• Towards a Topic Complexity Measure for Cross Language Image RetrievalMichael Grubinger, Clement H. C. Leung, Paul Clough. [doi]
• BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova. [doi]
• University of Indonesia's Participation in Question Answering at CLEF 2005Mirna Adriani, Rinawati. [doi]
• University of Indonesia's Participation in Ad Hoc at CLEF 2005Mirna Adriani, Ihsan Wahyu. [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew's CollectionGareth J. F. Jones, Kieran McDonald. [doi]
• UNED at WebCLEF 2005Javier Artiles, Víctor Peinado, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo. [doi]
• NICTA i2d2 in GeoCLEF 2005Baden Hughes. [doi]
• MIRACLE's 2005 Approach to Cross-lingual Information RetrievalJosé Carlos González, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, Julio Villena-Román. [doi]
• Using Syntactic Dependency and Language Model X-IOTA IR System for CLIPS Mono & Bilingual Experiments in CLEF 2005Loïc Maisonnasse, Gilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet. [doi]
• Monolingual and Cross-language QA using a QA-oriented Passage Retrieval SystemJosé Manuel Gómez Soriano, Empar Bisbal Asensi, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal. [doi]
• University of Alicante in ImageCLEF2005Rubén Izquierdo-Beviá, David Tomás, Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, José Luis Vicedo González. [doi]
• Ontology-Based Multilingual Information RetrievalJacques Guyot, Saïd Radhouani, Gilles Falquet. [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SR) ExperimentsAdenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones. [doi]
• MIRACLE's Combination of Visual and Textual Queries for Medical Image RetrievalJulio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, Juan José Fernández. [doi]
• MIRACLE's 2005 Approach to Cross-Lingual Question AnsweringCésar de Pablo-Sánchez, Ana González-Ledesma, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, José María Guirao, Paloma Martínez, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval. [doi]
• The Oedipe System at CLEF-QA 2005Romaric Besançon, Mehdi Embarek, Olivier Ferret. [doi]
• The XLDB Group at GeoCLEF 2005Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Leonardo Andrade, Mário J. Silva. [doi]
• Report on the Annotation Task in ImageCLEFmed 2005Bo Qiu, Wei Xiong, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu. [doi]
• MIRACLE's Approach to Multilingual Web RetrievalÁngel Martínez-González, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, César de Pablo-Sánchez, Julio Villena-Román, Luis Jiménez-Cuadrado, Paloma Martínez, José Carlos González Cristóbal. [doi]
• How much Context do you need? An Experiment about Context Size in Interactive Cross-language Question AnsweringBorja Navarro, Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo, Elisa Noguera, Sonia Vázquez, Fernando Llopis, Andrés Montoyo. [doi]
• The University of Indonesia's Participation in IMAGE-CLEF 2005Mirna Adriani, A. Framadhan. [doi]
• MetaCarta at GeoCLEF 2005András Kornai. [doi]
• Combining Passages in the Monolingual Task with the IR-n SystemFernando Llopis, Elisa Noguera. [doi]
• Exploiting Semantic Features for Image Retrieval at CLEF 2005José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Julio Villena, Ana García-Serrano, Santiago González-Tortosa, Francesco Carbone, Michelangelo Castagnone. [doi]
• University of Hagen at QA@CLEF 2005: Extending Knowledge and Deepening Linguistic Processing for Question AnsweringSven Hartrumpf. [doi]
• Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments with a Social Science Document CorpusRené Hackl, Thomas Mandl. [doi]
• Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2005Isabelle Moulinier, Ken Williams. [doi]
• CLEF 2005: Multilingual Retrieval by Combining Multiple Multilingual Ranked ListsLuo Si, Jamie Callan. [doi]
• Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information RetrievalChristina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis. [doi]
• European Ad Hoc Retrieval Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2005Stephen Tomlinson. [doi]
• The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF-2005Daniel Ferrés, Samir Kanaan, Edgar González, Alicia Ageno, Horacio Rodríguez, Jordi Turmo. [doi]
• Dictionary-based Amharic-French Information RetrievalAtelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren. [doi]
• Hybrid Approach of Query and Document Translation with Pivot Language for Cross-Language Information RetrievalKazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando. [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering TrackAlessandro Vallin, Danilo Giampiccolo, Lili Aunimo, Christelle Ayache, Petya Osenova, Anselmo Peñas, Maarten de Rijke, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Diana Santos, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe. [doi]
• TPIRS: A System for Document Indexing Reduction on WebCLEFDavid Pinto, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis. [doi]
• EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web CorpusBörkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke. [doi]
• Bilingual and Multilingual Experiments with the IR-n SystemElisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Rafael M. Terol, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras, Fernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez. [doi]
• CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion using Side Collections and ThesauriJianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard. [doi]
• REINA at the WebCLEF Task: Combining Evidences and Link AnalysisCarlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez. [doi]
• Fusion of Probabilistic Algorithms for the CLEF Domain Specific TaskRay R. Larson. [doi]
• A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-lingual Question Answering for English and GermanRobert Strötgen, Thomas Mandl, René Schneider. [doi]
• Priberam's Question Answering System for PortugueseCarlos Amaral, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto. [doi]
• MIRACLE's 2005 Approach to Geographical Information RetrievalSara Lana-Serrano, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González Cristóbal. [doi]
• The University of Alicante at CL-SR TrackRafael M. Terol, Manuel Palomar, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz, Elisa Noguera. [doi]
• A Logic Programming-based Approach to the QA@CLEF05 TrackPaulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues. [doi]
• AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2005Sandra Roger 0001, Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral, Fernando Llopis, Antonia Aguilar, David Tomás. [doi]
• The XLDB Group Participation in the CLEF 2005 Ad Hoc TaskNuno Cardoso, Leonardo Andrade, Alberto Simões, Mário J. Silva. [doi]
• CUHK Experiments with ImageCLEF 2005Steven C. H. Hoi, Jianke Zhu, Michael R. Lyu. [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval TrackRyen W. White, Douglas W. Oard, Gareth J. F. Jones, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang. [doi]
• Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005Hristo Tanev, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Kiril Simov. [doi]
• Pitt at CLEF05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document RetrievalDaqing He, Jae-wook Ahn. [doi]
• Using Ontology Dimensions and Negative Expansion to solve Precise Queries in the ImageCLEF Medical TaskJean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Saïd Radhouani. [doi]
• 20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) Solving the Riddles at CLEF 2005Luís Costa. [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. [doi]
• NCTU_DBLAB@ImageCLEFmed 2005: Medical Image Retrieval TaskPei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang. [doi]
• NCTU_DBLAB@ImageCLEF 2005: Automatic Annotation TaskPei-Cheng Cheng, Been-Chian Chien, Hao-Ren Ke, Wei-Pang Yang. [doi]
• Preliminary Experiments with Geo-Filtering Predicates for Geographic IRJochen L. Leidner. [doi]
• Evaluating a Conceptual Indexing Method by Utilizing WordNetMustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles. [doi]
• Domain-Specific Track CLEF 2005: Overview of Results and Approaches, Remarks on the Assessment AnaalysisMichael Kluck, Maximilian Stempfhuber. [doi]
• CSUSM Experiments in GeoCLEF2005: Monolingual and Bilingual TasksRocio Guillén. [doi]
• University of Indonesia's Participation in WEB-CLEF 2005Mirna Adriani, Rama Pandugita. [doi]
• Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-termsBrigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Madeleine Sialeu, Anne Vilnat. [doi]
• Hungarian Monolingual Retrieval at CLEF 2005Anna Tordai, Maarten de Rijke. [doi]
• UB at CLEF 2005: Medical Image Retrieval TaskMiguel E. Ruiz, Sílvia Barcellos Southwick. [doi]
• University of Hagen at GeoCLEF 2005: Using Semantic Networks for Interpreting Geographical QueriesJohannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf, Dirk Veiel. [doi]
• Question Answering using Semantic AnnotationLili Aunimo, Reeta Kuuskoski. [doi]
• Building an XML Framework for Question AnsweringDavid Tomás, José Luis Vicedo González, Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Rubén Izquierdo. [doi]
• Sociopolitical Thesaurus in Concept-based Information RetrievalMikhail S. Ageev, Boris V. Dobrov, Natalia V. Loukachevitch. [doi]
• Portuguese at CLEF 2005: Reflections and ChallengesDiana Santos, Nuno Cardoso. [doi]
• Exploring New Languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005Paul McNamee. [doi]
• The University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005Óscar Ferrández, Zornitsa Kozareva, Antonio Toral, Elisa Noguera, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis. [doi]
• What Happened in CLEF 2005Carol Peters. [doi]
• Web Track for CLEF2005 at Alicante UniversityTrinitario Martínez, Elisa Noguera, Rafael Muñoz, Fernando Llopis. [doi]
• GeoCLEF: the CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval TrackFredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Paul Clough. [doi]
• Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive TrackJulio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Alessandro Vallin. [doi]
• Combining Multilevel Visual Features for Medical Image Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2005Wei Xiong, Bo Qiu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu, S. H. Ong, Kelvin Weng Chiong Foong. [doi]
• Report on CLEF-2005 Evaluation Campaign: Monolingual, Bilingual and GIRT Information RetrievalJacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger. [doi]
• University of Ottawa's Contribution to CLEF 2005, the CL-SR TrackDiana Inkpen, Muath Alzghool, Aminul Islam. [doi]
• DFKI's LT-lab at the CLEF 2005 Multiple Language Question Answering TrackGünter Neumann, Bogdan Sacaleanu. [doi]
• Cross-Language French-English Question Answering using the DLT System at CLEF 2005Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Michael Mulcahy, Igal Gabbay, Aoife O'Gorman, Kieran White, Darina Slattery. [doi]
• Categorizing and Annotating Medical Images by Retrieving Terms Relevant to Visual FeaturesDesislava Petkova, Lisa Ballesteros. [doi]
• The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF 2005David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Karin Müller, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang. [doi]
• Experiments for Tuning the Values of Lexical Features in Question Answering for SpanishManuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor Pineda. [doi]
• Waterloo Experiments for the CLEF05 SDR TrackCharles L. A. Clarke. [doi]
• How One Word Can Make all the Difference - Using Subject Metadata for Automatic Query Expansion and ReformulationVivien Petras. [doi]
• MIRACLE's 2005 Approach to Monolingual Information RetrievalJosé Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González, Julio Villena-Román. [doi]
• The University of Amsterdam at WebCLEF 2005Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. [doi]
• A WordNet-based Query Expansion Method for Geographical Information RetrievalDavide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis Arnal. [doi]
• Combining Text and Image Queries at ImageCLEF2005Yih-Chen Chang, Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• University of Hagen at CLEF 2005: Towards a Better Baseline for NLP Methods in Domain-Specific Information RetrievalJohannes Leveling. [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. [doi]
• Melange: Components for Cross-Lingual RetrievalMax Pfingsthorn, Koen E. A. van de Sande, Vladimir Nedovic. [doi]
• UNED at ImageCLEF 2005: Automatically Structured Queries with Named Entities over MetadataVíctor Peinado, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo. [doi]
• iCLEF2005 at REINA-USAL: Use of Free On-line Machine Translation Programs for Interactive Cross-Language Question AnsweringÁngel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Carlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Viviana Fernández Marcial. [doi]
• ENSM-SE at CLEF 2005: Uses of Fuzzy Proximity Matching FunctionAnnabelle Mercier, Amélie Imafouo, Michel Beigbeder. [doi]
• UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential AnswersVíctor Peinado, Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo. [doi]
• UNED at CL-SR CLEF 2005: Mixing Different Strategies to Retrieve Automatic Speech TranscriptionsFernando López-Ostenero, Víctor Peinado, Valentín Sama. [doi]
• A Structured Learning Approach for Medical Image Indexing and RetrievalJoo-Hwee Lim, Jean-Pierre Chevallet. [doi]
• Recovering Translation Errors in Cross-Language Image Retrieval using Word Association ModelsMasashi Inoue. [doi]
• SINAI at ImageCLEF 2005Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, Arturo Montejo Ráez. [doi]
• Web Retrieval Experiments with the EuroGOV Corpus at the University of HildesheimNiels Jensen, René Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Robert Strötgen. [doi]
• Cheshire II at GeoCLEF: Fusion and Query Expansion for GIRRay R. Larson. [doi]
• Supervised Machine Learning based Medical Image Annotation and RetrievalMd. Mahmudur Rahman, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya. [doi]
• SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-years-on and Multi-8 Merging-only TasksFernando Martínez Santiago, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras. [doi]
• Using medGIFT and easyIR for the ImageCLEF 2005 Evaluation TasksHenning Müller, Antoine Geissbühler, Johan Marty, Christian Lovis, Patrick Ruch. [doi]
• Principled Query ProcessingJussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Rickard Cöster. [doi]
• Merging Results from Different Media: Lic2m Experiments at ImageCLEF 2005Romaric Besançon, Christophe Millet. [doi]
• CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc Track OverviewGiorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Gareth J. F. Jones, Carol Peters. [doi]
• Domain-Specific Russian Retrieval: A Baseline ApproachFredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Overview of WebCLEF 2005Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke. [doi]
• Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Multilingual Merging ExperimentsAdenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones. [doi]
• Combining Global features for Content-based Retrieval of Medical ImagesMark Oliver Güld, Christian Thies, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas Martin Lehmann. [doi]
• Ad-hoc Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of HildesheimRené Hackl, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker. [doi]
• European Web Retrieval Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2005Stephen Tomlinson. [doi]
• Question Answering for Dutch using Dependency RelationsGosse Bouma, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann. [doi]
• Manual Query Modification and Automated Translation to Improve Cross-Language Medical Image RetrievalJeffery R. Jensen, William R. Hersh. [doi]
• MIRACLE's Naive Approach to Medical Images AnnotationJulio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Luis Martínez-Fernandez. [doi]