TY - BOOK ID - 7763143 TI - 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 AU - Peters, C. AU - Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. PY - 2009 SN - 3642044468 3642044476 PB - Berlin ; New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Cross-language information retrieval KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Library & Information Science KW - Social Sciences KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Information retrieval. KW - Data retrieval KW - Data storage KW - Discovery, Information KW - Information discovery KW - Information storage and retrieval KW - Retrieval of information KW - CLIR (Cross-language information retrieval) KW - Multilingual information retrieval KW - Polyglot information retrieval KW - Computer science. KW - Data mining. KW - Information storage and retrieval. KW - User interfaces (Computer systems). KW - Computational linguistics. KW - Computer Science. KW - Language Translation and Linguistics. KW - Computational Linguistics. KW - User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. KW - Information Storage and Retrieval. KW - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. KW - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). KW - Automatic language processing KW - Language and languages KW - Language data processing KW - Linguistics KW - Natural language processing (Linguistics) KW - Applied linguistics KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Multilingual computing KW - Interfaces, User (Computer systems) KW - Human-machine systems KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Algorithmic knowledge discovery KW - Factual data analysis KW - KDD (Information retrieval) KW - Knowledge discovery in data KW - Knowledge discovery in databases KW - Mining, Data KW - Database searching KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Data processing KW - Documentation KW - Information science KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Information retrieval KW - Computational linguistics KW - Machine translating KW - Natural language processing (Computer science). KW - Information storage and retrieva. KW - Natural Language Processing (NLP). KW - NLP (Computer science) KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Electronic data processing KW - Semantic computing KW - Information storage and retrieval systems. KW - Automatic data storage KW - Automatic information retrieval KW - Automation in documentation KW - Computer-based information systems KW - Data processing systems KW - Data storage and retrieval systems KW - Discovery systems, Information KW - Information discovery systems KW - Information processing systems KW - Information retrieval systems KW - Machine data storage and retrieval KW - Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems KW - Computer systems KW - Electronic information resources KW - Data libraries KW - Digital libraries KW - Information organization KW - Application software. KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software KW - Human-computer interaction. KW - Computer and Information Systems Applications. KW - Data centers KW - Computer-human interaction KW - Human factors in computing systems KW - Interaction, Human-computer KW - Human engineering KW - User-centered system design KW - User interfaces (Computer systems) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7763143 AB - 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. ER -