Information Access Evaluation -- Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, held in Sheffield, UK, in September 2014. The 11 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They cover a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, also included are a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language information retrieval systems Front Matter....Pages - Making Test Corpora for Question Answering More Representative....Pages 1-6 Towards Automatic Evaluation of Health-Related CQA Data....Pages 7-18 Rethinking How to Extend Average Precision to Graded Relevance....Pages 19-30 CLEF 15 th Birthday: What Can We Learn From Ad Hoc Retrieval?....Pages 31-43 An Information Retrieval Ontology for Information Retrieval Nanopublications....Pages 44-49 Supporting More-Like-This Information Needs: Finding Similar Web Content in Different Scenarios....Pages 50-61 SCAN: A Swedish Clinical Abbreviation Normalizer....Pages 62-73 A Study of Personalised Medical Literature Search....Pages 74-85 A Hybrid Approach for Multi-faceted IR in Multimodal Domain....Pages 86-97 Discovering Similar Passages within Large Text Documents....Pages 98-109 Improving Transcript-Based Video Retrieval Using Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation....Pages 110-115 Self-supervised Relation Extraction Using UMLS....Pages 116-127 Authorship Identification Using Dynamic Selection of Features from Probabilistic Feature Set....Pages 128-140 A Real-World Framework for Translator as Expert Retrieval....Pages 141-152 Comparing Algorithms for Microblog Summarisation....Pages 153-159 The Effect of Dimensionality Reduction on Large Scale Hierarchical Classification....Pages 160-171 Overview of the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014....Pages 172-191 ImageCLEF 2014: Overview and Analysis of the Results....Pages 192-211 Overview of INEX 2014....Pages 212-228 LifeCLEF 2014: Multimedia Life Species Identification Challenges....Pages 229-249 Benchmarking News Recommendations in a Living Lab....Pages 250-267 Improving the Reproducibility of PAN’s Shared Tasks:....Pages 268-299 Overview of CLEF Question Answering Track 2014....Pages 300-306 Overview of RepLab 2014: Author Profiling and Reputation Dimensions for Online Reputation Management....Pages 307-322 Back Matter....Pages -