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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

7th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2016, Évora, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Short Papers and Posters

    1. SS4MCT: A Statistical Stemmer for Morphologically Complex Texts

      • Javid Dadashkarimi, Hossein Nasr Esfahani, Heshaam Faili, Azadeh Shakery
      Pages 201-207
    2. Index-Based Semantic Tagging for Efficient Query Interpretation

      • José Devezas, Sérgio Nunes
      Pages 208-213
    3. A Gamified Approach to Relevance Judgement

      • Debasis Ganguly, Gareth J. F. Jones
      Pages 214-220
    4. How Relevant is the Long Tail?

      • Philipp Schaer, Philipp Mayr, Sebastian Sünkler, Dirk Lewandowski
      Pages 227-233
    5. Towards an Understanding of Transactional Tasks

      • Natalia Shepeleva, Krisztian Balog
      Pages 234-240
    6. Health Suggestions: A Chrome Extension to Help Laypersons Search for Health Information

      • Carla Teixeira Lopes, Tiago Almeida Fernandes
      Pages 241-246
    7. Brazilian Social Mood: The Political Dimension of Emotion

      • Leila Weitzel, Flávia Bernardini, Paulo Quaresma, Claudio André Alves, Wladek Zacharski, Luis G. de Figueiredo
      Pages 247-252
  2. CLEF 2016 Labs Overviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
    2. Overview of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2016

      • Liadh Kelly, Lorraine Goeuriot, Hanna Suominen, Aurélie Névéol, João Palotti, Guido Zuccon
      Pages 255-266
    3. General Overview of ImageCLEF at the CLEF 2016 Labs

      • Mauricio Villegas, Henning Müller, Alba García Seco de Herrera, Roger Schaer, Stefano Bromuri, Andrew Gilbert et al.
      Pages 267-285
    4. LifeCLEF 2016: Multimedia Life Species Identification Challenges

      • Alexis Joly, Hervé Goëau, Hervé Glotin, Concetto Spampinato, Pierre Bonnet, Willem-Pier Vellinga et al.
      Pages 286-310
    5. Overview of NewsREEL’16: Multi-dimensional Evaluation of Real-Time Stream-Recommendation Algorithms

      • Benjamin Kille, Andreas Lommatzsch, Gebrekirstos G. Gebremeskel, Frank Hopfgartner, Martha Larson, Jonas Seiler et al.
      Pages 311-331
    6. Overview of PAN’16

      • Paolo Rosso, Francisco Rangel, Martin Potthast, Efstathios Stamatatos, Michael Tschuggnall, Benno Stein
      Pages 332-350
    7. Overview of the CLEF 2016 Social Book Search Lab

      • Marijn Koolen, Toine Bogers, Maria Gäde, Mark Hall, Iris Hendrickx, Hugo Huurdeman et al.
      Pages 351-370
    8. Overview of the CLEF 2016 Cultural Micro-blog Contextualization Workshop

      • Lorraine Goeuriot, Josiane Mothe, Philippe Mulhem, Fionn Murtagh, Eric SanJuan
      Pages 371-378
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 379-380

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2016, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2016.


The 10 full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 5 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. In addition to these talks, this volume contains the results of 7 benchmarking labs reporting their year long activities in overview talks and lab sessions. The papers address all aspects of information access in any modality and language and cover a broad range
of topics in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Universität Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

    Norbert Fuhr

  • Universidade de Évora , Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  • University of Évora , Évora, Portugal

    Teresa Gonçalves

  • Aalborg University Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark

    Birger Larsen

  • University of Stavanger , Stavanger, Norway

    Krisztian Balog

  • University of Glasgow , Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Craig Macdonald

  • University of Padua , Padua, Italy

    Linda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro

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