CLEF 2007:
Budapest,
Hungary
Carol Peters, Valentin Jijkoun, Thomas Mandl, Henning Müller, Douglas W. Oard, Anselmo Peñas, Vivien Petras, Diana Santos (Eds.):
Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5152 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-85759-4 BibTeX
Introduction
Part I:
Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)
Monolingual
Cross-Language:
European
Cross-Language:
Non-European
- Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, A. Kumaran:
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System for Indian Languages.
80-87
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- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Tapabrata Mondal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque, Srinivasa Rao Godhavarthy:
Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-Hoc Bilingual Task at CLEF 2007.
88-94
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- Debasis Mandal, Mayank Gupta, Sandipan Dandapat, Pratyush Banerjee, Sudeshna Sarkar:
Bengali and Hindi to English CLIR Evaluation.
95-102
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- Prasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma:
Improving Recall for Hindi, Telugu, Oromo to English CLIR.
103-110
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- Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Damani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya:
Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation.
111-118
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- Atelach Alemu Argaw:
Amharic-English Information Retrieval with Pseudo Relevance Feedback.
119-126
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- Mirna Adriani, Herika Hayurani, Syandra Sari:
Indonesian-English Transitive Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
127-133
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Robot
- Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl:
Robust Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim.
134-136
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- Fernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras:
SINAI at CLEF Ad-Hoc Robust Track 2007: Applying Google Search Engine for Robust Cross-Lingual Retrieval.
137-142
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- Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Carlos G. Figuerola:
Improving Robustness Using Query Expansion.
143-147
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- Jesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, Manuel Vilares Ferro:
English-to-French CLIR: A Knowledge-Light Approach through Character N-Grams Alignment.
148-155
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- José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano:
MIRACLE Progress in Monolingual Information Retrieval at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2007.
156-159
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Part II:
Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific)
Part III:
Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)
- Danilo Giampiccolo, Pamela Forner, Jesús Herrera, Anselmo Peñas, Christelle Ayache, Corina Forascu, Valentin Jijkoun, Petya Osenova, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe:
Overview of the CLEF 2007 Multilingual Question Answering Track.
200-236
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- Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Felisa Verdejo:
Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2007.
237-248
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- Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Christelle Ayache, Djamel Mostefa, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel:
Overview of QAST 2007.
249-256
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Main Task:
Mono- and Bilingual QA
- Gosse Bouma, Geert Kloosterman, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann:
Question Answering with Joost at CLEF 2007.
257-260
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- Luís Miguel Cabral, Luís Fernando Costa, Diana Santos:
What Happened to Esfinge in 2007?
261-268
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- Sven Hartrumpf, Ingo Glöckner, Johannes Leveling:
Coreference Resolution for Questions and Answer Merging by Validation.
269-272
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- Mitchell Bowden, Marian Olteanu, Pasin Suriyentrakorn, Thomas D'Silva, Dan I. Moldovan:
Multilingual Question Answering through Intermediate Translation: LCC's PowerAnswer at QA@CLEF 2007.
273-283
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- Dan Tufis, Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceausu:
RACAI's Question Answering System at QA@CLEF2007.
284-291
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- Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann, Christian Spurk:
DFKI-LT at QA@CLEF 2007.
292-299
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- Georgiana Puscasu, Constantin Orasan:
University of Wolverhampton at CLEF 2007.
300-307
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- Chedid Haddad, Bipin C. Desai:
Bilingual Question Answering Using CINDI QA at QA@CLEF 2007.
308-315
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- José Saias, Paulo Quaresma:
The University of Évora's Participation in QA@CLEF-2007.
316-323
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- Davide Buscaldi, Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis:
Web-Based Anaphora Resolution for the QUASAR Question Answering System.
324-327
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- Alberto Téllez-Valero, Antonio Juárez, Gustavo Hernández, Claudia Denicia, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
A Lexical Approach for Spanish Question Answering.
328-331
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- Mirna Adriani, Septian Adiwibowo:
Finding Answers Using Resources in the Internet.
332-335
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- Adrian Iftene, Diana Trandabat, Ionut Pistol, Mihai Alex Moruz, Alexandra Balahur, Diana Cotelea, Iustin Dornescu, Iuliana Draghici, Dan Cristea:
UAIC Romanian QA System for QA@CLEF.
336-343
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- Valentin Jijkoun, Katja Hofmann, David Ahn, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang:
The University of Amsterdam's Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2007.
344-351
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- César de Pablo-Sánchez, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ana González-Ledesma, Doaa Samy, Paloma Martínez, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Harith T. Al-Jumaily:
Combining Wikipedia and Newswire Texts for Question Answering in Spanish.
352-355
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- Ana Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, David Martins de Matos:
QA@L2F, First Steps at QA@CLEF.
356-363
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- Carlos Amaral, Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto, Daniel Vidal:
Priberam's Question Answering System in QA@CLEF 2007.
364-371
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Answer Validation Exercise (AVE)
- Ingo Glöckner:
Combining Logic and Aggregation for Answer Selection.
372-376
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- Óscar Ferrández, Daniel Micol, Rafael Muñoz, Manuel Palomar:
On the Application of Lexical-Syntactic Knowledge to the Answer Validation Exercise.
377-380
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- Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, José M. Perea-Ortega, Fernando Martínez Santiago, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Combining Lexical Information with Machine Learning for Answer Validation at QA@CLEF 2007.
381-386
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- Rui Wang, Günter Neumann:
Using Recognizing Textual Entailment as a Core Engine for Answer Validation.
387-390
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- Alberto Téllez-Valero, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
A Supervised Learning Approach to Spanish Answer Validation.
391-394
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- Adrian Iftene, Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu:
UAIC Participation at AVE 2007.
395-403
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- Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo:
UNED at Answer Validation Exercise 2007.
404-409
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Question Answering on Speech Transcription (QAST)
Part IV:
Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
- Michael Grubinger, Paul Clough, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller:
Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2007 Photographic Retrieval Task.
433-444
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- Thomas 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:
Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 Object Retrieval Task.
445-471
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- Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Eugene Kim, William R. Hersh:
Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2007 Medical Retrieval and Medical Annotation Tasks.
472-491
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ImageCLEFphoto
- Tobias Gass, Tobias Weyand, Thomas Deselaers, Hermann Ney:
FIRE in ImageCLEF 2007: Support Vector Machines and Logistic Models to Fuse Image Descriptors for Photo Retrieval.
492-499
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- Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Luis Martínez-Fernández, José Carlos González Cristóbal:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFphoto 2007: Evaluation of Merging Strategies for Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval.
500-503
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- Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
Using an Image-Text Parallel Corpus and the Web for Query Expansion in Cross-Language Image Retrieval.
504-511
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- Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
SINAI System: Combining IR Systems at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007.
512-517
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- András A. Benczúr, István Bíró, Mátyás Brendel, Károly Csalogány, Bálint Daróczy, Dávid Siklósi:
Multimodal Retrieval by Text-Segment Biclustering.
518-521
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- Sergio Navarro, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Elisa Noguera:
Analysing an Approach to Information Retrieval of Visual Descriptions with IR-n, a System Based on Passages.
522-529
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- Anni Järvelin, Peter Wilkins, Tomasz Adamek, Eija Airio, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Eero Sormunen:
DCU and UTA at ImageCLEFPhoto 2007.
530-537
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- Steven C. H. Hoi:
Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval: An Empirical Study at ImageCLEF2007.
538-545
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- Hugo Jair Escalante, Carlos Hernández, Aurelio López, Heidy Marin-Castro, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Eduardo F. Morales, Luis Enrique Sucar, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
Towards Annotation-Based Query and Document Expansion for Image Retrieval.
546-553
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- Florence Tushabe, Michael H. F. Wilkinson:
Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Combined 2D Attribute Pattern Spectra.
554-561
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- Osama El Demerdash, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler:
Text-Based Clustering of the ImageCLEFphoto Collection for Augmenting the Retrieved Results.
562-568
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- Stéphane Clinchant, Jean-Michel Renders, Gabriela Csurka:
Trans-Media Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Methods in Multimedia Retrieval.
569-576
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ImageCLEFmed
- Tatiana Tommasi, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo:
Cue Integration for Medical Image Annotation.
577-584
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- Loïc Maisonnasse, Éric Gaussier, Jean-Pierre Chevallet:
Multiplying Concept Sources for Graph Modeling.
585-592
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- Julio Villena-Román, Sara Lana-Serrano, José Carlos González Cristóbal:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFmed 2007: Merging Textual and Visual Strategies to Improve Medical Image Retrieval.
593-596
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- Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo:
MIRACLE at ImageCLEFanot 2007: Machine Learning Experiments on Medical Image Annotation.
597-600
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- Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, M. T. Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, L. A. Ureña-López:
Integrating MeSH Ontology to Improve Medical Information Retrieval.
601-606
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- Michael Springmann, Heiko Schuldt:
Speeding Up IDM without Degradation of Retrieval Quality.
607-614
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- Juan C. Caicedo, Fabio A. González, Eduardo Romero:
Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval Using Low-Level Visual Features and Modality Identification.
615-622
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- Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, William R. Hersh:
Medical Image Retrieval and Automatic Annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2007.
623-630
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- Diem Thi Hoang Le, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim:
Using Bayesian Network for Conceptual Indexing: Application to Medical Document Indexing with UMLS Metathesaurus.
631-636
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- Mark Oliver Güld, Thomas Martin Deserno:
Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2007 Medical Automatic Annotation Task Using Global Image Features.
637-640
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- Miguel E. Ruiz, Aurélie Névéol:
Evaluation of Automatically Assigned MeSH Terms for Retrieval of Medical Images.
641-648
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ImageCLEF photo and med
Part V:
Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR)
- Pavel Pecina, Petra Hoffmannová, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ying Zhang, Douglas W. Oard:
Overview of the CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track.
674-686
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- Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak:
A Dirichlet-Smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech.
687-694
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- Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen:
Model Fusion Experiments for the CLSR Task at CLEF 2007.
695-702
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- Ying Zhang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang:
Dublin City University at CLEF 2007: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Experiments.
703-711
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- Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka, Jan Vavruska:
What Can and Cannot Be Found in Czech Spontaneous Speech Using Document-Oriented IR Methods - UWB at CLEF 2007 CL-SR Track.
712-718
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- Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Using Information Gain to Filter Information in CLEF CL-SR Track.
719-724
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Part VI:
Multilingual Web Retrieval (WebCLEF)
Part VII:
Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
- Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker, Xing Xie:
GeoCLEF 2007: The CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview.
745-772
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- Johannes Leveling, Sven Hartrumpf:
Inferring Location Names for Geographic Information Retrieval.
773-780
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- Rocio Guillén:
GeoParsing Web Queries.
781-785
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- Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal, José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo:
MIRACLE at GeoCLEF Query Parsing 2007: Extraction and Classification of Geographical Information.
786-793
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- Geoffrey Andogah, Gosse Bouma:
Relevance Measures Using Geographic Scopes and Types.
794-801
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- Nuno Cardoso, David Cruz, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Mário J. Silva:
Using Geographic Signatures as Query and Document Scopes in Geographic IR.
802-810
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- Ray R. Larson:
Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2007: Retesting Text Retrieval Baselines.
811-814
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- Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso:
On the Relative Importance of Toponyms in GeoCLEF.
815-822
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- José M. Perea-Ortega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Manuel García Vega, Luis Alfonso Ureña López:
Filtering for Improving the Geographic Information Search.
823-829
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- Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez:
TALP at GeoCLEF 2007: Results of a Geographical Knowledge Filtering Approach with Terrier.
830-833
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- Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez:
TALP at GeoQuery 2007: Linguistic and Geographical Analysis for Query Parsing.
834-837
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- Mirna Adriani, Nasikhin:
Applying Geo-feedback to Geographic Information Retrieval.
838-841
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- Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang, Wei-Ying Ma:
Exploring LDA-Based Document Model for Geographic Information Retrieval.
842-849
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- Ralph Kölle, Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker:
Mono-and Crosslingual Retrieval Experiments with Spatial Restrictions at GeoCLEF 2007.
850-855
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- Simon E. Overell, João Magalhães, Stefan M. Rüger:
GIR Experiments with Forostar.
856-863
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Part VIII:
CLEF in Other Evaluations
CLEF at MorphoChallenge
CLEF at SemEval 2007
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