What Happened in CLEF 2006: Introduction to the Working Notes

This is our first participation in the CLEF evaluation task and we have considered Bengali, Hindi and Telugu as query languages for the retrieval from English document collection..

Interpolated recall vs precision averages plot Average precision statistics and box plot Average precision comparison to median plot Document cutoff levels vs precision at DCL

For GeoCLEF 2006, twenty-five search topics were defined by the organizing groups for searching English, German, Portuguese and Spanish document collections.. Topics were

Italian, English, Query translation, Query expansion, Semantic disambiguation, Latent Semantic Analysis, Metasearch, Delegated search, Visual search,Image Search..

For clarity, we have tried to stick to the following terms when appropriate: manually defined segments (for English indexing), 15- minute snippets (for ASR training),

The Robust task offered monolingual, bilingual and multilingual tasks using the test collections built over three years: CLEF 2001 - 2003, for six languages:.. Dutch, English,

The Portuguese monolingual runs evaluated both QuerCol query con- struction strategies and the BM25 term weigh extension, while the English runs evaluated different values for the

Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2005, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, Revised Selected Papers (Peters, C..