CLEF 2016 Conference Sessions

Conference papers: Classification, profiling and suggestion

(Tuesday, Sept 6th: 10:25–12:30)

10:25 Effects of language and terminology on the usage of query suggestions during health search
Carla Lopes and Cristina Ribeiro
10:50 Improving User Profiles in the Long-Tail
Gaurav Singh, Amin Mantrach and Fabrizio Silvestri
11:15 I, me, mine: the Role of Personal Phrases in Author Profiling
Rosa María Ortega-Mendoza, Anilu Franco-Arcega, Adrián Pastor López-Monroy and Manuel Montes-Y-Gómez
11:40 Predicting Contextually Appropriate Venues in Location-Based Social Networks
Jarana Manotumruksa, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis
12:05 Two-Way Parsimonious Classification Models for Evolving Hierarchies
Mostafa Dehghani, Hosein Azarbonyad, Jaap Kamps and Maarten Marx

Conference papers: Cross Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation

(Wednesday, Sept 7th: 10:25–12:30)

10:25 Assessors Agreement: A Case Study across Assessors Type, Payment Levels, Query Variations and Relevance Dimensions
Joao Palotti, Guido Zuccon, Johannes Bernhardt, Allan Hanbury and Lorraine Goeuriot
10:50 A Test Collection for Research on Depression and Language Use
David Losada and Fabio Crestani
11:15 Reranking Hypotheses of Machine-Translated Queries for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Shadi Saleh and Pavel Pecina
11:40 Show me how to tie a tie: evaluation of cross-lingual video retrieval
Pavel Braslavski, Suzan Verberne and Ruslan Talipov
12:05 The CLEF Monolingual Grid of Points
Nicola Ferro and Gianmaria Silvello

Best-of-labs papers: eHealth, NewsReel & LL4IR

(Monday, Sept 5th: 11:15–12:30)

11:15 A product feature-based user-centric product search model
Lamjed Ben Jabeur, Laure Soulier, Lynda Tamine and Paul Mousset
11:40 Concept Recognition in French Biomedical Text Using Automatic Translation
Zubair Afzal, Saber A. Akhondi, Herman H.H.B.M. van Haagen, Erik M. van Mulligen and Jan A. Kors
12:05 Random Performance Differences Between Online Recommender System Algorithms
Gebrekirstos Gebremeskel and Arjen P. de Vries

Best-of-labs papers: ImageCLEF, PAN

(Thursday, Sept 8th: 10:30–11:45)

10:30 A two-step retrieval method for Image Captioning
Luis Pellegrin, Jorge Vanegas, John Arevalo, Viviana Beltrán, Hugo Escalante, Manuel Montes-Y-Gómez and Fabio González
10:55 Kronecker decomposition for image classification
Sabrina Fontanella, Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez, Justus Piater and Sandor Szdemak
11:20 Author identification using multi-headed recurrent neural networks
Douglas Bagnall