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Overview of WebCLEF 2005
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2006
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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We describe WebCLEF, the multilingual web track, that was introduced at CLEF 2005. We provide details of the tasks, the topics, and the results of WebCLEF participants. ...
The mixed monolingual task proved an interesting addition to the range of tasks in cross-language information retrieval. ...
Future of WebCLEF WebCLEF 2005 was an important first step toward a cross lingual web retrieval test collection. ...
doi:10.1007/11878773_89
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Overview of WebCLEF 2007
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2008
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The WebCLEF 2007 task combines insights gained from previous editions of WebCLEF 2005-2006 [6, 1] and the WiQA 2006 pilot [4, 3], and goes beyond the navigational queries considered at WebCLEF 2005 and ...
The task definition-which goes beyond traditional navigational queries and is concerned with undirected information search goals-combines insights gained at previous editions of WebCLEF and of the WiQA ...
, with an overview of the ideas, common methods and critiques. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_92
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Overview of WebCLEF 2006
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2007
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We-bCLEF 2006 used a stream of known-item topics consisting of: (i) manual topics (including a selection of WebCLEF 2005 topics, and a set of new topics) and (ii) automatically generated topics (generated ...
We report on the CLEF 2006 WebCLEF track devoted to crosslingual web retrieval. We provide details about the retrieval tasks, the used topic set, and the results of the participants. ...
The manual topics consisted of both a set of newly constructed topics, and a selection of WebCLEF 2005 topics. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_101
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EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus
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2006
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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EuroGOV is a multilingual web corpus that was created to serve as the document collection for WebCLEF, the CLEF 2005 web retrieval task. ...
In this paper we provide a detailed description of the EuroGOV collection. ...
Overview of WebCLEF 2005. In This Volume, 2006. [4] TextCat. Language identification tool, 2006. URL: http://odur.let.rug.nl/ vannoord/TextCat/. [5] WebCLEF. Cross-lingual web retrieval, 2006. ...
doi:10.1007/11878773_90
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Mixed monolingual homepage finding in 34 languages: the role of language script and search domain
2008
Information retrieval (Boston)
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We conduct a thorough study on the effect of multilingual queries for homepage finding, where the aim of the retrieval system is to return only one document, namely the homepage described in the query. ...
In this work, we ask two questions: How do existing state of the art search engines deal with languages written in different alphabets (scripts)? ...
retrieval through WebCLEF (http://ilps.science.uva.nl/webclef/). ...
doi:10.1007/s10791-008-9082-8
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CLEF 15th Birthday
2014
SIGIR Forum
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This paper provides a summary of the motivations which led to the establishment of CLEF, and a description of how it has evolved over the years, the major achievements, and what we see as the next challenges ...
2014 marks the 15 th birthday for CLEF, an evaluation campaign activity which has applied the Cranfield evaluation paradigm to the testing of multilingual and multimodal information access systems in Europe ...
Acknowledgements CLEF would not be possible without all the effort, enthusiasm, and passion of its community: lab organizers, lab participants, and attendees are the core and the real success of CLEF. ...
doi:10.1145/2701583.2701587
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What Happened in CLEF 2007
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The main results are commented and future evolutions in the organization of CLEF are discussed. ...
The organization of the CLEF 2007 evaluation campaign is described and details are provided concerning the tracks, test collections, evaluation infrastructure, and participation. ...
My gratitude goes to all those who have been involved in the coordination of the 2007 campaigns. A list of the main institutions involved is given at the beginning of this volume. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_1
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MIRACLE at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2005: Merging and Combining Without Using a Single Approach
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2006
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This paper presents the 2005 Miracle's team approach to the Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval tasks. ...
Some of these basic components were used in different combinations and order of application for document indexing and for query processing. ...
In the 2005 experiments, only OR combinations of the search terms were used. ...
doi:10.1007/11878773_4
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Versatile question answering systems: seeing in synthesis
2011
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
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This paper reviews state-of-art QA systems which provide enhanced and versatile functionality at various levels in their architecture and then makes the following contributions: 1 it provides useful overview ...
Recent advances in massive information storage and growth of internet have led to increased necessity of tools such as search engines and QA systems to get meaningful answers from the vast amount of information ...
In this paper, we attempt to give a good, but obviously limited overview of the field of QA systems. The rest of the paper is organised as follows. ...
doi:10.1504/ijiids.2011.038968
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Recent Developments in the Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems: Moving Towards Diversity and Practical Relevance
2008
Informatica
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This paper gives an overview of the current activities of the major evaluation initiatives. Special attention is given to the current tracks and developments within TREC, CLEF and NTCIR. ...
In order to evaluate the individual aspects of searches and the subjectivity of user judgments regarding the usefulness of searches, an impracticable effort would be necessary. ...
Summary As this overview shows, the evaluation of information retrieval systems has greatly diversified in recent years. ...
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The WebCAT Framework — Automatic Generation of Meta-Data for Web Resources
The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)
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Automated methods for resource annotation are a clear necessity, as the success of the Semantic Web depends on the availability of Web resources with meta-data conforming to known standards and ontologies ...
This paper describes the WebCAT framework for automatically generating RDF descriptions of Web pages. ...
Figure 1 . 1 Overview of the WebCAT framework.
1 . 1 Discard URLs not following the specification syntax 2. ...
doi:10.1109/wi.2005.146
dblp:conf/webi/MartinsS05
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