• CLEF-IP

    • Tuesday

      10:30-12:30

      Prior Art Candidates Search

      10:30-10:50

      Report on the CLEF-IP 2011 Experiments: Exploring Patent Summarization, Parvaz Mahdabi, Linda Andersson, Allan Hanbury and Fabio Crestani

      10:50-11:10

      Combining document representations for prior-art retrieval,  Eva D'Hondt, Suzan Verberne, Wouter Alink and Roberto Cornacchia

      11:10-11:30

      Exploring Keyphrase Extraction and IPC Classification Vectors for Prior Art Search, Manisha Verma and Vasudeva Varma

      11:30-11:50

      Does Patent IR profit from Linguistics or Maximum Query Length?, Daniela Becks, Julia Jürgens, Christa Womser-Hacker, Maximilian Eibl, Jens Kürsten and Thomas Wilhelm

      11:50-12:30

      Discussion:
      Prior Art Candidates Search, Present and Future
      12:30-14:00 Lunch

      14:00-16:00

      Image Classification and Image-Retrieval

      14:00-14:20

      Patent classification experiments with the Linguistic Classification System LCS in CLEF-IP 2011,  Suzan Verberne and Eva D'Hondt

      14:20-14:40

      CLEF-IP 2011 Working Note: Utilizing Prior Art Candidate Search Results for Refined IPC Classification, Hyung-Kook Seo, Kyouyeol Han and Jaean Lee

      14:40-15:00

      Classifying patent Images,  Roland Morzinger, Andras Horti, Georg Thallinger, Naeem bhatti and Allan Hanbury

      15:00-15:20

      XRCE's Participation at Patent Image Classification and Image-based Patent Retrieval Tasks of the Clef-IP 2011, Gabriela Csurka, Jean-Michel Renders and Guillaume Jacquet

      15:20-16:00

      Discussion:
      Classification and Image tasks at CLEF-IP, Present and Future

  • ImageCLEF

    • Tuesday

      10:30-12:30

      		 ImageCLEF session: Overview presentations 
      chair: Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

      10:30-11:00

      		 Medical retrieval overview, Steven Bedrick, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

      11:00-11:30

      		 Wikipedia image retrieval overview, Jana Kludas, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

      11:30-12:00

      		 Photo annotation overview, Stefanie Nowak, Fraunhofer, Germany

      12:00-12:30

      		 Plant identification overview, Alexis Joly, INRIA, France

      12:30-14:00

      		Lunch

      14:00-16:00

      		Participants' presentations 
      chair: Stefanie Nowak, Fraunhofer, Germany

      14:00-14:15

      		DEMIR at ImageCLEFMed 2011: Evaluation of Fusion Techniques for Multimodal Content-based Medical Image Retrieval, Adil Alpkocak, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey

      14:15-14:30

      		LABERINTO at ImageCLEF 2011 Medical Image Retrieval Task, Mariano Crespo, Universidad de Huelva, Spain

      14:30-14:45

      		UNED-UV experiments using Multimodal information approaches, Ana Garcia-Serrano, UNED, Spain

      14:45-15:00

      		TBA , Miguel Ruiz, University of North Texas, USA 

      15:00-15:15

      		The TUBFI submission to the ImageCLEF2011 Photo Annotation Task, Alexander Binder, Berlin Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer, Germany 

      15:15-15:30

      		SZTAKI@ImageCLEF2011 Photo Annotation Task, Bálint Daróczy, BPACAD/SZTAKI

      15:30-15:45

      		Guiding Active Contours for Tree Leaf Segmentation and Identification, Guillaume Cerutti/Laure Tougne, Université de Lyon, France 

      15:45-16:00

      		TBA, Plant Identification, Hervé Goeau, INRIA, France

    • Wednesday

      10:30-12:30

      ImageCLEF session: Demos + participants' presentations 
      chair: Miguel Ruiz, University of North Texas, USA

      10:30-10:45

      Multi-disciplinary modality classification for medical images, Victor Gal, University of Ghent, Belgium

      10:45-11:00

      XRCE and CEA LIST's participation at ImageCLEF Wikipedia Retrieval 2011, Adrian Popescu, CEA-LIST, France 

      11:00-11:15

      The University of Amsterdam's Concept Detection System at ImageCLEF 2011, Koen van de Sande, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

      11:15-11:30

      MLKD's Participation at the CLEF 2011 Photo Annotation and Concept-Based Retrieval Tasks, Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

      11:30-12:30

      Demo session 

       

      - CEB/NLM Medical Image Retrieval demo, Dina Demmer-Fushman, Natinonal Library of Medicine, USA
      - DEMIR Medical Image Retrieval demo, Tolga Berber,, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
      - medGIFT Medical Image Retrieval demo, Henning Müller, HES SO, Switzerland
      - MUFIN Annotation Tool and Image Retrieval demo, Petra Budikova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

      12:30-14:00

      Lunch

      14:00-16:00

      Looking ahead: ImageCLEF 2012 
      chair:, TBA

      14:00-14:20

      New ideas for photo annotation, Bart Thomee, Yahoo! Barcelona, Spain 

      14:20-14:40

      Image Annotation in the Wild, Roberto Paredes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

      14:40-15:00

      RobotVision@ImageCLEF2012: Towards 3D Spatial Representations, Barbara Caputo, IDIAP, Switzerland, presented by Henning Müller

      15:00-16:00

      Discussion 


  • LogCLEF

    • Wednesday

      14:00-16:00

      LogCLEF participants' presentations 
      chair: Giorgio Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy

      14:00-14:30

      DAEDALUS at LogCLEF 2011: Analyzing Query Success and User Context,Lana-Serrano, S., Villena-Román, J., González-Cristóbal, J.C.

      14:30-15:00

      Interface Language, User Language and Success Rates in The European Library, Maria Gäde, Juliane Stiller, Vivien Petras, Richard Berendsen

      15:00-15:30

      Adapting Statistical Language Identification Methods for Short Queries, Alexandru-Lucian Gînscă, Emanuela Boroș, Adrian Iftene

      15:30-16:00

      University of Essex at LogCLEF 2011: Studying Query Refinement, M-Dyaa Albakour and Udo Kruschwitz
    • Thursday

      9:00-11:00

      Breakout session
      chair: Johannes Leveling, Dublin City University, Ireland

  • MusiCLEF

    • Thursday

      09:00-09:05

      Introduction to MusiCLEF

      09.05-09.25

      Professional partners, David Rizo

      09.25-09.55

      MIR community approaches related to our tasks, Nicola Orio

      09.55-10.05

      Involvement of the CLEF community, Nicola Orio

      10.05-10.35

      Organization in the first year, David Rizo, Nicola Montecchio, Adrian Iftene, Andrei Rusu, and Alexandra Leahu

      10.35-10.45

      What we expect for next year, David Rizo

      10.45-11.15

      Open discussion with participants, David Rizo

  • PAN

    • Wednesday

      10:30-12:30

      Vandalism Detection
      chair: Martin Potthast, Germany

      10:30-10:55

      Multilingual Vandalism Detection using Language-Independent & Ex Post Facto Evidence, Andrew West and Insup Lee

       

      Authorship Identification
      chair: Moshe Koppel

      10:55-11:10

      Overview of the International Authorship Identification Competition at PAN-2011
      Shlomo Argamon and Patrick Juola

      11:10-11:35

      A Multitude of Linguistically-rich Features for Authorship Attribution Ludovic Tanguy, Assaf Urieli, Basilio Calderone, Nabil Hathout, and Franck Sajous

      11:35-12:00

      Author Identification Using Semi-supervised Learning Ioannis Kourtis and Efstathios Stamatatos

      12:00-12:15

      Authorship Identification with Modality Specific Meta Features
      Thamar Solorio, Sangita Pillay and Manuel Montes-Y-Gómez

      12:15-12:30

      Authorship Identification in Large Email Collections: Experiments Using Features that Belong to Different Linguistic Levels, George K. Mikros and Kostas Perifanos

      12:30-14:00

      Lunch

      14:00-16:00

      Authorship Identification
      chair: Patrick Juola

      14:00-14:15

      Improved Implementation for Finding Text Similarities in Large Collections of Data, Ján Grman and Rudolf Ravas

      14:15-14:30

      Authorship Attribution of E-mail as a Multi-Class Task
      Kim Luyckx

       

      Keynote and Panel Discussion
      chair: Paolo Rosso

      14:30-15:10

      Forensic Plagiarism Detection and Authorship Attribution: On the Linguists' Achievements and the Challenges for Computerized Analysis, María Teresa Turell and Malcolm Coulthard

      15:10-16:00

      Panel discussion

    • Thursday

      9:00-11:00

      Plagiarism Detection
      chair: Efstathios Stamatatos

      9:00-9:25

      Vote/Veto Meta-Classifier for Authorship Identification
      Roman Kern, Christin Seifert, Mario Zechner, and Michael Granitzer

      9:25-9:40

      Overview of the 3rd International Competition on Plagiarism Detection
      Martin Potthast, Andreas Eiselt, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Benno Stein, and Paolo Rosso

      9:40-10:05

      Approaches for Intrinsic and External Plagiarism Detection
      Gabriel Oberreuter, Gaston L'Huillier, Sebástian Ríos, and Juan Velásquez

      10:05-10:30

      Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection Using Character Trigram Distance Scores
      Mike Kestemont, Kim Luyckx and Walter Daelemans

      10:30-10:45

      The Encoplot Similarity Measure for Automatic Detection of Plagiarism
      Cristian Grozea and Marius Popescu

      10:45-11:00

      External Plagiarism Detection using Information Retrieval and Sequence Alignment
      Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab, Mark Stevenson and Paul Clough

  • QA4MRE

    • Tuesday

      10:30-10:40

      Welcome
      Pamela Forner, CELCT, Italy

      10:40-11:10

      Methodology and Results of QA4MRE 2011, Alvaro Rodrigo, UNED, Spain
        Report from the Pilot

      11:10-11:30

      Processing Modality and Negation,  Roser Morante, Univeristy of Antwerp, Belgium
        Invited talk

      11:30-12:30

      Text Mining in Biograph, Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium

      12:30-14:00

      Lunch

      14:00-16:00

      Reports from the Participants

       

      		 - A Hybrid Question Answering System based on Information Retrieval and Answer Validation, Partha Pakray, Jadavpur University, India
      - Dependency-Based Answer Validation for German,  Jan Pawellek and Alexander Henn, University of Heidelberg, Germany
      - THE LOGANSWER PROJECT AT QA4MRE 2011, Ingo Glöckner, University of Hagen, Germany
      - Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation on Romanian and English Languages, Adrian Iftene, AL.I.Cuza University, Romania

       

      Discussion

    • Wednesday

      10:30 -12:30

      Breakout session


News

Registration

The registration desk will be open throughout the conference, on the first floor of Casa 400. Additional opening hours are:
- Sunday 18 September, from 17.00 to 19.00
- Monday 19 September, from 08.00 onwards

Fee waivers

CLEF 2011 receives last-minute sponsorship for student registration fee waivers. Apply (with motivation + proof of stud. status) at clef2011[at]list.uva.nl

Schedule Change

The notifications of acceptance of CLEF 2011 conference paper is postponed to Monday 13

CLEF 2011 Registrations

The CLEF 2011 registrations are now open.

Contacts

General chairs

Maarten de Rijke
Julio Gonzalo

Program chairs

Jaana Kekäläinen
Mounia Lalmas

Lab chairs

Vivien Petras
Paul Clough

Organization chair

Emanuele Pianta

Resource and Publicity chair

Khalid Choukri

Technical management

Pamela Forner
Giovanni Moretti

Local organizers

Richard Berendsen
Bouke Huurnink
Edgar Meij
Wouter Weerkamp