Ebook: Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics: Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2012. Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012. The 14 papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Furthermore, the books contains 2 keynote papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: benchmarking and evaluation initiatives; information access; and evaluation methodologies and infrastructure.

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012.
The 14 papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Furthermore, the books contains 2 keynote papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: benchmarking and evaluation initiatives; information access; and evaluation methodologies and infrastructure.

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012.
The 14 papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Furthermore, the books contains 2 keynote papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: benchmarking and evaluation initiatives; information access; and evaluation methodologies and infrastructure.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Analysis and Refinement of Cross-Lingual Entity Linking....Pages 1-12
Seven Years of INEX Interactive Retrieval Experiments – Lessons and Challenges....Pages 13-23
Bringing the Algorithms to the Data: Cloud–Based Benchmarking for Medical Image Analysis....Pages 24-29
Going beyond CLEF-IP: The ‘Reality’ for Patent Searchers?....Pages 30-35
MusiClef: Multimodal Music Tagging Task....Pages 36-41
Generating Pseudo Test Collections for Learning to Rank Scientific Articles....Pages 42-53
Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study....Pages 54-66
Cross-Language High Similarity Search Using a Conceptual Thesaurus....Pages 67-75
The Appearance of the Giant Component in Descriptor Graphs and Its Application for Descriptor Selection....Pages 76-81
Hidden Markov Model for Term Weighting in Verbose Queries....Pages 82-87
DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure....Pages 88-99
Penalty Functions for Evaluation Measures of Unsegmented Speech Retrieval....Pages 100-111
Cumulated Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation....Pages 112-123
Better than Their Reputation? On the Reliability of Relevance Assessments with Students....Pages 124-135
Comparing IR System Components Using Beanplots....Pages 136-137
Language Independent Query Focused Snippet Generation....Pages 138-140
A Test Collection to Evaluate Plagiarism by Missing or Incorrect References....Pages 141-143
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012.
The 14 papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Furthermore, the books contains 2 keynote papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: benchmarking and evaluation initiatives; information access; and evaluation methodologies and infrastructure.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Analysis and Refinement of Cross-Lingual Entity Linking....Pages 1-12
Seven Years of INEX Interactive Retrieval Experiments – Lessons and Challenges....Pages 13-23
Bringing the Algorithms to the Data: Cloud–Based Benchmarking for Medical Image Analysis....Pages 24-29
Going beyond CLEF-IP: The ‘Reality’ for Patent Searchers?....Pages 30-35
MusiClef: Multimodal Music Tagging Task....Pages 36-41
Generating Pseudo Test Collections for Learning to Rank Scientific Articles....Pages 42-53
Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study....Pages 54-66
Cross-Language High Similarity Search Using a Conceptual Thesaurus....Pages 67-75
The Appearance of the Giant Component in Descriptor Graphs and Its Application for Descriptor Selection....Pages 76-81
Hidden Markov Model for Term Weighting in Verbose Queries....Pages 82-87
DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure....Pages 88-99
Penalty Functions for Evaluation Measures of Unsegmented Speech Retrieval....Pages 100-111
Cumulated Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation....Pages 112-123
Better than Their Reputation? On the Reliability of Relevance Assessments with Students....Pages 124-135
Comparing IR System Components Using Beanplots....Pages 136-137
Language Independent Query Focused Snippet Generation....Pages 138-140
A Test Collection to Evaluate Plagiarism by Missing or Incorrect References....Pages 141-143
Back Matter....Pages -
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