Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories

What Happened in CLEF 2005.- What Happened in CLEF 2005.- I. Multilingual Textual Document Retrival (Ad Hoc).- CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc Track Overview.- Cross-Language and More.- Ad-Hoc Mono- and Bilingual Retrieval Experiments at the University of Hildesheim.- MIRACLE at Ad-Hoc CLEF 2005: Merging and Combining Without Using a Single Approach.- The XLDB Group at the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Task.- Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments at CLEF-2005.- Using the X-IOTA System in Mono- and Bilingual Experiments at CLEF 2005.- Bilingual and Multilingual Experiments with the IR-n System.- Dictionary-Based Amharic-French Information Retrieval.- A Hybrid Approach to Query and Document Translation Using a Pivot Language for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Conceptual Indexing for Multilingual Information Retrieval.- SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-on and Multi-8 Merging-Only Tasks.- CLEF 2005: Multilingual Retrieval by Combining Multiple Multilingual Ranked Lists.- Monolingual, Bilingual, and GIRT Information Retrieval at CLEF-2005.- Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information Retrieval.- The Performance of a Machine Translation-Based English-Indonesian CLIR System.- Exploring New Languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005.- Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-On Merging Experiments.- Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval.- Monolingual Experiments.- Four Stemmers and a Funeral: Stemming in Hungarian at CLEF 2005.- ENSM-SE at CLEF 2005: Using a Fuzzy Proximity Matching Function.- Bulgarian and Hungarian Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2005.- Combining Passages in the Monolingual Task with the IR-n System.- Weighting Query Terms Based on Distributional Statistics.- II. Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific).- Domain-Specific Track CLEF 2005: Overview of Results and Approaches, Remarks on the Assessment Analysis.- A Baseline for NLP in Domain-Specific IR.- Domain-Specific CLIR of English, German and Russian Using Fusion and Subject Metadata for Query Expansion.- Evaluating a Conceptual Indexing Method by Utilizing WordNet.- Domain Specific Mono- and Bilingual English to German Retrieval Experiments with a Social Science Document Corpus.- III. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF).- Overview of the CLEF 2005 Interactive Track.- Use of Free On-Line Machine Translation for Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering.- "How Much Context Do You Need?": An Experiment About the Context Size in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering.- UNED at iCLEF 2005: Automatic Highlighting of Potential Answers.- Effect of Connective Functions in Interactive Image Retrieval.- Using Concept Hierarchies in Text-Based Image Retrieval: A User Evaluation.- IV. Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF).- Overview of the CLEF 2005 Multilingual Question Answering Track.- A Fast Forward Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering for English and German.- The OEDipe System at CLEF-QA 2005.- An XML-Based System for Spanish Question Answering.- A Logic Programming Based Approach to QA@CLEF05 Track.- Extending Knowledge and Deepening Linguistic Processing for the Question Answering System InSicht.- Question Answering for Dutch Using Dependency Relations.- Term Translation Validation by Retrieving Bi-terms.- Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005.- The TALP-QA System for Spanish at CLEF 2005.- Priberam's Question Answering System for Portuguese.- A Full Data-Driven System for Multiple Language Question Answering.- Experiments on Cross-Linguality and Question-Type Driven Strategy Selection for Open-Domain QA.- QUASAR: The Question Answering System of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.- Towards an Offline XML-Based Strategy for Answering Questions.- AliQAn, Spanish QA System at CLEF-2005.- 20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) Solving the Riddles at C