CLEF 2007 Workshop Programme

Wednesday 19 September 2007 (room Brussels)
14:00	Welcome – Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
14:30	Ad Hoc Overview Main Mono and Bilingual Tasks: Track Organisation and Results Analysis – Nicola Ferro, U. Padua, Italy Overview of Results and Lessons Learned from Robustness Evaluation  – Thomas Mandl, U. Hildesheim, Germany
15:20	Domain-Specific Overview – Vivien Petras, GESIS – Social Science Information Centre, Germany
15:40	What’s happening in iCLEF? – Julio Gonzalo LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain
16:00	Break
16:30	Use Cases for Interactive Multimedia Access – Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Stockholm, Sweden
16:50	QA@CLEF Overview Main Mono and Bilingual Tasks and Answer Validation Exercise Overview  – Anselmo Peñas, LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain Overview of QAST 2007 – Christelle Ayache, ELDA, Paris, France
17:30	ImageCLEF Overview ImageCLEFPhoto Task – Michael Grubinger, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia ImageCLEFMed Task – Henning Müller, U and U Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland ImageCLEF Medical Annotation and Object Retrieval – Thomas Deselaers, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
20:00	Workshop Dinner – Restaurant Lugas, Budapest (Buses leave Europa Centre at 19:45)

Thursday 20 September 2007, Morning Session (room Brussels)
09:00	GeoCLEF Overview Track Overview: Query Classification and Geographic Search – Thomas Mandl, U. Hildesheim, Germany; Diana Santos, Linguateca, SINTEF ICT, Norway; Mark Sanderson U. Sheffield, UK. Results and Analysis – Giorgio Di Nunzio, U. Padua, Italy
09:40	CL-SR Overview The CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track – Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City U., Ireland; Douglas W. Oard, U. Maryland, USA; Pavel Pecina, Charles University, Czech Republic
10:20	CLEF@SemEVAL: Eneko Agirre, IXA NLP Group, University of the Basque Country, Spain
10:40	CLEF@MorphoChallenge: Mikko Kurimo, Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
11:00	Break
	11:30 - 13:00 Parallel sessions
11:30 - 13:00	Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (room Strasbourg) Chair: Douglas W. Oard Brown at CL-SR’07: Retrieving Conversational Speech in English and Czech – Matthew Lease, Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing, Brown University, USA Dublin City University at CLEF 2007:Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Experiments – Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City U., Ireland Model Fusion Experiments for the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Task at CLEF 2007 – Muath Alzghool, School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa, Canada Attempts to Search Czech Spontaneous Spoken Interviews: the University of West Bohemia at CLEF 2007 CL-SR track – Pavel Ircing, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
11:30 - 13:00	Ad-Hoc with Domain-specific (room Brussels) Chair: Thomas Mandl Stemming and Search Strategies for East European Languages – Ljiljana Dolamic, Computer Science Dept., University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Performing Cross-Language Retrieval with Wikipedia – Peter Schönhofen, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System for Indian Languages – Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Multilingual Systems Research, Microsoft Research India CoLesIR at CLEF 2007: from English to French via Character N-Grams – Jesus Vilares, U. Coruna, Spain XRCE at Domain Specific Task: Adapting Dictionaries Technology Evaluation for Multilingual and Multimodal – Gabriela Csurka, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
13:00	Lunch

Thursday 20 September 2007, Afternoon Session
	14:30 - 16:00  Parallel sessions
14:30 -  16:00	QA@CLEF (room Strasbourg) Chair: Danilo Giampiccolo DFKI at QA@Clef 2007 – Günter Neumann, LT-lab DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany The Senso Question Answering Approach to Portuguese QA@CLEF-2007, José Saias, Universidade de Évora, Portugal Choosing the right answer - combining answer validation and information fusion for improved answer selection – Ingo Glöckner, IICS, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany Robust Question Answering for Speech Transcriptions using Minimal Syntactic Analysis – Pere R. Comas, TALP Research Centre - UPC, Barcelona, Spain
14:30 - 16:00	ImageCLEF (room Brussels) Chair: Henning Müller Towards an Annotation-based Query/Document Expansion Method for Image Collections – Manuel Montes y Gómez, TIA-INAOE, Mexico XRCE at ImageCLEF – Gabriela Csurka, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France IPAL at ImageCLEF 2007 Mixing Features, Models and Knowledge – Sheng Gao, IPAL French-Singaporean Joint Lab, I2R & CNRS, Singapore Image Annotation Task: an SVM-based Cue Integration Approach – Tatiana Tommasi and Barbara Caputo, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland Re-Segmented Pre-Classified Images for Object Retrieval – Matyas Brendel, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
16:00	Break
16:30	Invited Talk: Lessons from NTCIR-6 and a Plan of Task Cluster-Based Coordination for NTCIR-7 – Noriko Kando, NII, Tokyo, Japan
17:00	Invited Talk: FIRE: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation for Indian Languages – Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
17:20 - 19:30	Poster Boaster and Poster Session
19:00 - 21:00	Steering Committee Meeting (room Strasbourg)

Friday 21 September 2007
	09:00-10:30 Parallel sessions
09:00 -          10:30	GeoCLEF (room Brussels) Chair: Mark Sanderson Query Classification Task: A Heuristic Approach to the GeoCLEF Query Parsing Task – Jochen Leidner, Linguit, UK Search Tasks: TALP at GeoCLEF 2007: Using Terrier with Geographical Knowledge Filtering – Daniel Ferrés, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2007 – Nuno Cardoso, University of Lisbon, Portugal University of Groningen at GeoCLEF 2007 – Geoffrey Andogah, University of Groningen, The Netherlands GIR experiments with Forostar at GeoCLEF 2007 – Simon Overell, Imperial College London, UK  Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2007: Retesting Text Retrieval Baselines – Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley, USA  Exploring Location Indicators for Geographic Information Retrieval – Johannes Leveling, University of Hagen, Germany
09:30 -          10:30	WebCLEF (room Strasbourg) Chair: Maarten de Rijke Track Overview – Maarten de Rijke, U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands Using Centrality to Rank Web Snippets – Valentin Jijkoun, U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10:30	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Breakout discussion sessions: ImageCLEF (room Brussels) GeoCLEF (room Strasbourg) QA@CLEF (room Maastricht)
12:00 - 13:00	Breakout discussion sessions: Adhoc plus Domain Specific (room Brussels) WebCLEF (room Strasbourg)
13:00	Lunch
	Concluding Session (room Brussels)
14:30	Invited Talk: Technology Evaluation for Multilingual and Multimodal Content Processing in Quaero – Edouard Geoffrois, DGA-CEP, France
15:00	Towards CLEF 2008 Chair: Martin Braschler Reports from Breakout Sessions
16:30	END OF WORKSHOP