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Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access

9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5706)

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The ninth campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to September 2008. There were seven main eval- tion tracks in CLEF 2008 plus two pilot tasks. The aim, as usual, was to test the p- formance of a wide range of multilingual information access (MLIA) systems or s- tem components. This year, 100 groups, mainly but not only from academia, parti- pated in the campaign. Most of the groups were from Europe but there was also a good contingent from North America and Asia plus a few participants from South America and Africa. Full details regarding the design of the tracks, the methodologies used for evaluation, and the results obtained by the participants can be found in the different sections of these proceedings. The results of the CLEF 2008 campaign were presented at a two-and-a-half day workshop held in Aarhus, Denmark, September 17–19, and attended by 150 resear- ers and system developers. The annual workshop, held in conjunction with the European Conference on Digital Libraries, plays an important role by providing the opportunity for all the groups that have participated in the evaluation campaign to get together comparing approaches and exchanging ideas. The schedule of the workshop was divided between plenary track overviews, and parallel, poster and breakout sessions presenting this year’s experiments and discu- ing ideas for the future. There were several invited talks.

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Table of contents (131 papers)

  1. What Happened in CLEF 2008

  2. Part I: Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)

  3. TEL@CLEF

  4. Persian@CLEF

  5. Robust-WSD

Other volumes

  1. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access

Editors and Affiliations

  • Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  • RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Thomas Deselaers

  • University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  • LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo, Anselmo Peñas

  • Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  • Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

    Mikko Kurimo

  • University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    Thomas Mandl

  • Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

    Vivien Petras

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