CLEF 2013 Slides

Keynote Talks

• Comparative Evaluation Redux, or: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Variance Evangelos Kanoulas
• Multilingual Natural Language Processing Rada Mihalcea

Conference Session

EVALUATION AND VISUALIZATION

• The Scholarly Impact of CLEF (2000–2009) Theodora Tsikrika
• Building a Common Framework for IIR Evaluation Mark Michael Hall and Elaine Toms
• Selecting Success Criteria: Experiences with an Academic Library Catalogue Paul Clough and Paula Goodale
• A Formative Evaluation of a Comprehensive Search System for Medical Professionals Allan Hanbury
• A Turing Test to Evaluate a Complex Summarization Task Eric Sanjuan

EVALUATION AND MULTILINGUALITY

• Improving Ranking Evaluation Employing Visual Analytics Marco Angelini, Nicola Ferro, Giuseppe Santucci, and Gianmaria Silvello
• A Proposal for a new Evaluation and Result Visualization Technique for Sentiment Analysis Tasks Francisco José Valverde Albacete, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, and Carmen Peláez-Moreno
• A Case Study in Decompounding for Bengali Information Retrieval Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, and Gareth Jones
• A Comparative Evaluation of Cross-lingual Text Annotation Techniques Lei Zhang, Achim Rettinger, Michael Färber, and Marko Tadic
• Exploiting Multiple Translation Resources for English-Persian Cross Language Information Retrieval Hosein Azarbonyad, Azadeh Shakery, and Heshaam Faili

APPLICATIONS AND EVALUATION

• The Impact of Belief Values on the Identification of Patient Cohorts Travis Goodwin and Sanda Harabagiu
• Semantic discovery of resources in cloud-based PACS/RIS systems María Pérez
• Subtopic Mining Based on Head-modifier Relation and Co-occurrence of Intents Using Web Documents Se-Jong Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee
• Relevant Clouds: Leveraging Relevance Feedback to Build Tag Clouds for Image Search Luis A. Leiva
• Mining Query Logs of USPTO Patent Examiners Wolfgang Tannebaum and Andreas Rauber
• A New Corpus for the Evaluation of Arabic Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection Imene Bensalem

Lab Overviews

• Cultural Heritage in CLEF 2013 Vivien Petras, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
• Overview of the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2013 Hanna Suominen, NICTA and Australian National University, Australia
• CLEF IP Overview Florina Piroi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• ImageCLEF Overview Barbara Caputo, IDIAP, Switzerland
• Overview of INEX 2013 Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• PAN Overview: Recent Trends in Digital Text Forensicsand Its Evaluation Martin Potthast, Bauhaus, University of Weimar, Germany
• QA4MRE Overview Anselmo Peñas, UNED, Spain
• Multilingual Question Answering over Linked Data Christina Unger, CITEC, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
• RepLab Overview Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
• CLEF-ER Overview Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Other Evaluation Initiatives

• MediaEval in 2013 Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
• What is happening at NTCIR - Summary of NTCIR-10 and Plans for NTCIR-11 Noriko Kando, NII, Japan
• New Directions in FIRE Prasenjit Majumder, DAIICT, India