Front matter
97-126
Introduction
Julio Gonzalo and Carol Peters
159-180
CLEF 2003 Methodology and Metrics
Martin Braschler and Carol Peters
21-39
Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum
Thomas Mandl and Christa Womser-Hacker
197-221
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at the NTCIR Workshop
Noriko Kando
181-195
CLEF 2003 – Overview of Results
Martin Braschler
629-635
Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual Tracks
Jacques Savoy
435-444
The Impact of Word Normalization Methods and Merging Strategies on Multilingual IR
Eija Airio, Heikki Keskustalo, Turid Hedlund and Ari Pirkola
85-97
JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-word Translation
Paul McNamee and James Mayfield
449-464
Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora
Nicola Cancedda, Hervé Déjean, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Michel Renders and Alexei Vinokourov
121-124
Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval
Aitao Chen and Fredric C. Gey
122-132
Cross-Language Experiments with the IR-n System
Fernando Llopis and Rafael Muñoz
101-112
Multilingual Information Retrieval Using Open, Transparent Resources in CLEF 2003
Monica Rogati and Yiming Yang
135-145
ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Information Retrieval
Nicola Bertoldi and Marcello Federico
131-140
Language-Dependent and Language-Independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
571-585
Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim
René Hackl, Ralph Kölle, Thomas Mandl, Alexandra Ploedt and Jan-Hendrik Scheufen, et al.
365-384
Concept-Based Searching and Merging for Multilingual Information Retrieval: First Experiments at CLEF 2003
Romaric Besançon, Gaël de Chalendar, Olivier Ferret, Christian Fluhr and Olivier Mesnard, et al.
185-191
CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB: Automatically Generated Phrases and Relevance Feedback for Improving CLIR
Miguel E. Ruiz
77-85
SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging
Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña-López and M. Carlos Díaz-Galiano
179-190
Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
Wen-Cheng Lin and Hsin-Hsi Chen
147-161
MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Baseline for Future Research
José L. Martínez, Julio Villena, Jorge Fombella, Ana G. Serrano and Paloma Martínez, et al.
179-183
Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word Translation
Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci and Nicola Orio
139-150
Clairvoyance CLEF-2003 Experiments
Yan Qu, Gregory Grefenstette and David A. Evans
533-537
Simple Translations of Monolingual Queries Expanded Through an Association Thesaurus
X-IOTA IR System Used for CLIPS Bilingual Experiments
Gilles Sérasset and Jean-Pierre Chevallet
253-262
Two-Stage Refinement of Query Translation in a Pivot Language Approach to Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2003
Kazuaki Kishida and Noriko Kando
465-497
Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Michael P. Oakes and Souvik Banerjee
503-512
Exeter at CLEF 2003: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval
Adenike M. Lam-Adesina and Gareth J. F. Jones
169-182
Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2003
Stephen Tomlinson
597-605
Océ at CLEF 2003
Roel Brand, Marvin Brünner, Samuel Driessen, Pascha Iljin and Jakob Klok
61-77
Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto and Giovanni Romano
53-78
Pruning Texts with NLP and Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearch
Gil Francopoulo
322-336
Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval
Jacques Savoy
337-344
Selective Compound Splitting of Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated Terms
Rickard Cöster, Magnus Sahlgren and Jussi Karlgren
25-29
COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003 in the Spanish Monolingual Track
Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Francisco J. Ribadas
358-366
Experiments with Self Organizing Maps in CLEF 2003
Javier Fernández, Ricardo Mones, Irene Díaz, José Ranilla and Elías F. Combarro
675-685
Ricoh at CLEF 2003
Yuichi Kojima, Hideo Itoh, Hiroko Mano and Yasushi Ogawa
709-718
MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using Keyword Disambiguation
Peter van der Weerd
453-460
The GIRT Data in the Evaluation of CLIR Systems – from 1997 Until 2003
Michael Kluck
197-204
A Data-Compression Approach to the Monolingual GIRT Task: An Agnostic Point of View
Daniela Alderuccio, Luciana Bordoni and Vittorio Loreto
227-235
UC Berkeley at CLEF-2003 – Russian Language Experiments and Domain-Specific Retrieval
Vivien Petras, Natalia Perelman and Fredric Gey
419-425
University of Hagen at CLEF 2003: Natural Language Access to the GIRT4 Data
Johannes Leveling
425-434
The CLEF 2003 Interactive Track
Douglas W. Oard and Julio Gonzalo
231-265
iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection
Bonnie Dorr, Daqing He, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard and Richard Schwartz, et al.
385-401
UNED at iCLEF 2003: Searching Cross-Language Summaries
Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo and Felisa Verdejo
195-201
Comparing Syntactic-Semantic Patterns and Passages in Interactive Cross Language Information Access (iCLEF at University of Alicante)
Borja Navarro, Fernando Llopis and Miguel Ángel Varó
279-307
Continued Experiments on Cross-Language Relevance Assessment
Jussi Karlgren and Preben Hansen
57-69
The Multiple Language Question Answering Track at CLEF 2003
Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera and Anselmo Peñas, et al.
663-666
Creating the DISEQuA Corpus: A Test Set for Multilingual Question Answering
Bernardo Magnini, Simone Romagnoli, Alessandro Vallin, Jesús Herrera and Anselmo Peñas, et al.
539-543
Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev and Bernardo Magnini
153-158
Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu and Ulf Hermjakob
747-767
How Frogs Built the Berlin Wall
A Detailed Error Analysis of a Question Answering System for Dutch
Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke
283-300
Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline in CLEF 2003
Lucian Vlad Lita, Monica Rogati and Jaime Carbonell
27-38
Question Answering in Spanish
José L. Vicedo, Ruben Izquierdo, Fernando Llopis and Rafael Muñoz
549-558
Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System
Luc Plamondon and George Foster
101-109
A Cross–Language Question/Answering–System for German and English
Günter Neumann and Bogdan Sacaleanu
3-8
Cross-Language French-English Question Answering Using the DLT System at CLEF 2003
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay and Aoife O’Gorman
127-147
The CLEF 2003 Cross Language Image Retrieval Track
Paul Clough and Mark Sanderson
719-737
Assessing Translation Quality for Cross Language Image Retrieval
Paul Clough and Mark Sanderson
611-620
Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Wen-Cheng Lin, Changhua Yang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
345-360
Image Retrieval: The MIRACLE Approach
Julio Villena, José L. Martínez, Jorge Fombella, Ana G. Serrano and Alberto Ruiz, et al.
157-163
Scene of Crime Information System: Playing at St. Andrews
Bogdan Vrusias, Mariam Tariq and Lee Gillam
467-475
The CLEF 2003 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
Marcello Federico and Gareth J. F. Jones
553-558
Exeter at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments
Gareth J. F. Jones and Adenike Lam-Adesina
329-347
N-Grams for Translation and Retrieval in CL-SDR
Paul McNamee and James Mayfield
664-671
Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments with IR-n System
Fernando Llopis and Patricio Martínez-Barco
151-168
ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval
Nicola Bertoldi and Marcello Federico
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