CLEF 2017 - Conference Programme

CLEF 2017 Conference Programme


Monday 11th September

08:00-09:00 Conference Registration Main Concourse, Arts Building
09:00-09:15 Opening Ceremony Davis Theatre, Arts Building
09:15-10:30 Opening Keynote

Leif Azzopardi, University of Strathclyde, U.K.
Simulated Users, Agents and Humans

Chair: Séamus Lawless

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Main Concourse, Arts Building
11:00-12:45 Oral Presentations - Long Papers

Chair: Julio Gonzalo

Ahmad Khwileh, Gareth Jones and Andy Way.
Using Query Performance Prediction to Improve Reliability of Query Expansion for Retrieval of User-Generated Spoken Content

Serge Molina, Josiane Mothe, Dorian Roques and Ludovic Tanguy.
IRIT-QFR: IRIT Query Feature Resource

Sven Koitka and Christoph M. Friedrich.
Optimized Convolutional Neural Network Ensembles for Medical Subfigure Classification

Vladislav Blinov, Kirill Mishchenko, Valeriya Bolotova and Pavel Braslavski.
A Pinch of Humor for Short-Text Conversation: an Information Retrieval Approach

Florian Dietz and Vivien Petras.
A Component-level Analysis of an Academic Search Test Collection. Part I: System and Collection Configurations

Florian Dietz and Vivien Petras.
A Component-level Analysis of an Academic Search Test Collection. Part II: Query Analysis

Moritz Schubotz, Leonard Krämer, Norman Meuschke, Felix Hamborg and Bela Gipp.
Evaluating and Improving the Extraction of Mathematical Identifier Definitions

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
12:45-14:15 Lunch Break and Long Papers Poster Session Main Concourse, Arts Building
14:15-15:45 Lab Overviews 1

News Recommendation Evaluation Lab (NEWSREEL)

LifeCLEF

PAN

CLEF eHealth

ImageCLEF

Early Risk Prediction on the Internet (eRisk)

Chair: Lorraine Goeuriot

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break Main Concourse, Arts Building
16:15-17:15 Lab Overviews 2

Personalised Information Retrieval at CLEF (PIR-CLEF)

Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks

Multimodal Spatial Role Labelling Workshop

Cultural Microblog Contextualization (CMC) Workshop

Chair: Thomas Mandl

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
17:15-17:45 Best of Labs Papers 1

Chair: Annalina Caputo

Jaschar Domann and Andreas Lommatzsch.
A Highly Available Real-time News Recommender based on Apache Spark

Mirco Kocher and Jacques Savoy.
Author Clustering with an Adaptive Threshold

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
20:00-22:00 Welcome Reception Guinness Storehouse


Tuesday 12th September

08:00-09:00 Conference Registration Main Concourse, Arts Building
09:00-11:00 Labs 1

Early Risk Prediction on the Internet (eRisk)

CLEF eHealth

ImageCLEF / LifeCLEF

MultiModal Spatial Role Labelling

PIR-CLEF

Venues

5039


Swift Theatre

Davis Theatre

5025

Galbraith Seminar Room, Long Room Hub

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break and Labs Posters Main Concourse, Arts Building
11:30-12:30 Best of Labs Papers 2

Chair: Alexis Joly

Pengyuan Li, Xiangying Jiang, Chandra Kambhamettu and Hagit Shatkay.
Segmenting Compound Biomedical Figures into Their Constituent Panels

Maria Medvedeva, Hessel Haagsma and Malvina Nissim.
An Analysis of Cross-Genre and In-Genre Performance for Author Profiling in Social Media

Georgi Karadjov, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Yasen Kiprov, Georgi Georgiev, Ivan Koychev and Preslav Nakov.
The Case for Being Average: A Mediocrity Approach to Style Masking and Author Obfuscation

Philippe Mulhem, Lorraine Goeuriot, Nayanika Dogra and Nawal Ould Amer.
TimeLine Illustration based on Microblogs: When diversification meets metadata re-ranking

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break and Best of Labs Poster Session Main Concourse, Arts Building
14:00-16:00 Labs 2

PAN

CLEF eHealth

ImageCLEF

CLEF NewsREEL

Venues

Swift Theatre

5039

Davis Theatre

5025

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break and Labs Posters Main Concourse, Arts Building
16:30-18:30 Labs 3

PAN

CLEF eHealth

ImageCLEF

Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks

Venues

Swift Theatre

5039

Davis Theatre

5025

19:00-22:00 (Optional Social Event)
Literary Pub Crawl
The Streets and Pubs of Dublin City


Wednesday 13th September

08:00-09:00 Conference Registration Main Concourse, Arts Building
09:00-10:30 Reports from other Benchmarking Initiatives

TREC

TRECVid

NTCIR

FIRE

Chair: Nicola Ferro

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Main Concourse, Arts Building
11:00-12:00 MediaEval Opening and Overview

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
12:00-12:15 Short Papers - Oral Boaster Session

Chair: Aurelie Neveol

Nektaria Potha and Efstathios Stamatatos.
An Improved Impostors Method for Authorship Verification

Philipp Schaer and Mandy Neumann.
Enriching Existing Test Collections with OXPath

Mirko Lai, Marcella Tambuscio, Viviana Patti, Giancarlo Ruffo and Paolo Rosso.
Extracting Graph Topological Information and Users' Opinion

Raul Moreno, Weipeng Huang, Arjumand Younus, Michael O'Mahony and Neil J. Hurley.
Evaluation of Hierarchical Clustering via Markov Decision Processes for Efficient Navigation and Search

Magdalena Parks, Jussi Karlgren and Sara Stymne.
Plausibility Testing for Lexical Resources

Miguel A. Sanchez-Perez, Ilia Markov, Helena Gómez-Adorno and Grigori Sidorov.
Comparison of Character N-grams and Lexical Features on Author, Gender, and Language Variety Identification on the Same Spanish News Corpus

Khyathi Chandu, Manoj Chinnakotla, Alan Black and Manish Shrivastava.
WebShodh: A Code Mixed Factoid Question Answering System for Web

Tatiana Litvinova, Pavel Seredin, Olga Litvinova and Ekaterina S. Ryzhkova.
Estimating the similarities between texts of right-handed and left-handed males and females

Piyush Arora, Jennifer Foster and Gareth Jones.
Query Expansion for Sentence Retrieval using Pseudo Relevance Feedback and Word Embedding

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
12:15-13:45 Lunch Break and Short Papers Poster Session Main Concourse, Arts Building
13:45-15:45 Labs 4

LifeCLEF

PAN

CLEF Cultural Microblog Contextualization (CMC)

ImageCLEF

CLEF eHealth

Venues

5025

Swift Theatre

5039


Davis Theatre

Galbraith Seminar Room, Long Room Hub

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break and Labs Posters Main Concourse, Arts Building
16:15-18:15 Labs 5

LifeCLEF

PAN

CLEF Cultural Microblog Contextualization (CMC)

Venues

5025

Swift Theatre

5039

20:00-Late! CLEF and MediaEval Gala Dinner Dining Hall, Trinity College Dublin


Thursday 14th September

08:00-09:00 Conference Registration Main Concourse, Arts Building
09:00-10:15 Keynote

Vincent Wade, ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Evaluating and Assessing the Performance of Personalisation

Chair: Gareth Jones

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break and Joint CLEF+MediaEval Labs Overview Posters

Main Concourse, Arts Building
10:45-12:00 CLEF 2018 and CLEF 2018 Labs Introductions

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
12:00-12:15 Introduction to Joint CLEF+MediaEval Sessions

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
12:15-14:00 Lunch Break and Joint CLEF+MediaEval Labs Overview Poster Session

Main Concourse, Arts Building
14:00-15:00 Joint CLEF+MediaEval Session 1

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

Main Concourse, Arts Building
15:30-16:30 Joint CLEF+MediaEval Session 2

Davis Theatre, Arts Building
16:30-16:45 CLEF 2017 Closing Remarks

Davis Theatre, Arts Building