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

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Title:

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

ISBN:

9783540857600

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Publication Information New:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.

Physical Description:

XXI, 922 p. online resource.

Series:

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, 5152

Contents:

I: Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc) -- II: Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific) -- III: Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF) -- IV: Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF) -- V: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) -- VI: Multilingual Web Retrieval (WebCLEF) -- VII: Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF) -- VIII: CLEF in Other Evaluations.

Abstract:

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007. The revised and extended papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. There are 115 contributions in total and an introduction. The seven distrinct evaluation tracks in CLEF 2007, are designed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc), Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), cross-language retrieval in image collections (Image CLEF), cross-language speech retrieval (CL-SR), multilingual Web retrieval (WebCLEF), cross-language geographical retrieval (GeoCLEF), and CLEF in other evaluations.

Subject Term:

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Computational linguistics.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Application software.

Data mining.

Artificial intelligence.

Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Information Storage and Retrieval.

Computer and Information Systems Applications.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

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