Contractual date of delivery: 30/06/05 (2009)
Spirit Eu, Ist Programme, Bénédicte Bucher, Paul Clough, David Finch, Hideo Joho, ...
following integration and testing
Problems with Running a Successful Multimedia Retrieval Benchmark ∗ (2009)
Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Michael Grubinger, Paul Clough, Allan Hanbury, William Hersh
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and multimedia retrieval are at the point where they are ready to leave the pure research status and become integrated into commercial prototypes and products....
Contractual date of delivery: 01/01/04 (2009)
Spirit Eu, Ist Programme, Paul Clough, Mark S, Hideo Joho
from textual web pages
Paul Clough, Rob Pasley, Stefan Siersdorfer, Jose San Pedro, Mark S
This paper describes initial work on developing an information system to gather, process and visualise various multimedia data sources related to the South Yorkshire (UK) floods of 2007. The work is...
Key Design Issues with Visualising Images using Google Earth (2008)
Abstract. Using map visualisation tools and earth browsers to display images in a spatial context is integral to many photo-sharing sites and commercial image archives, yet little academic research...
Designing Multilingual Information Access to Tate Online (2008)
The Tate is Britain's premier national art gallery and includes content from internationally-renowned artists such as Constable and Turner. Like most cultural heritage institutions, the Tate...
Aware Search Engine for Information Retrieval on the Internet (2008)
Ross S. Purves, Paul Clough, Christopher B. Jones, Avi Arampatzis, Benedicte Bucher, David Finch, ...
Abstract: Much of the information stored on the web contains geographical context, but current search engines treat such context in the same way as all other content. In this paper the design,...
Sheffield at ImageCLEF 2003 (2008)
In this paper, we use the Systran machine translation system for translating queries for cross language image retrieval in a pilot experiment at CLEF 2003, called ImageCLEF. The approach we have...
Julio Gonzalo, Jussi Karlgren, Paul Clough
This paper summarizes the task design for iCLEF 2006 (the CLEF interactive track). Compared to previous years, we have proposed a radically new task: searching images in a naturally multilingual...
Departamento de Lenguajes Information Studies (2008)
Paul Clough, Julio Gonzalo, Y Sistemas Informáticos, Jussi Karlgren
This paper presents a proposal for iCLEF 2006, the interactive track of the CLEF cross-language evaluation campaign. In the past, iCLEF has addressed applications such as information retrieval and...
Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Ro Vallin
The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF) is devoted to the comparative study of userinclusive cross-language search strategies. In 2005, we have studied two cross-language search tasks: retrieval of...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Hideo Joho, Paul Clough, Vivien Petras
GeoCLEF is a new track for CLEF 2005. GeoCLEF was run as a pilot track to evaluate retrieval of multilingual documents with an emphasis on geographic search. Existing evaluation campaigns such as...
The ImageCLEF benchmark on multimodal multilingual image retrieval (2008)
Image retrieval has been an extremely active area of research in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition for almost 20 years [1]. Many prototypes and techniques have been developed and...
ABSTRACT Evaluation Axes for Medical Image Retrieval Systems — The ImageCLEF Experience (2008)
Henning Müller, Paul Clough, William Hersh, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Lehmann, Antoine Geissbuhler
Content–based image retrieval in the medical domain is an extremely hot topic in medical imaging as it promises to help better managing the large amount of medical images being produced....
Variation of Relevance Assessments for Medical Image Retrieval (2008)
Henning Müller, Paul Clough, Bill Hersh, Antoine Geissbühler
Abstract. Evaluation is crucial for the success of most research domains, and image retrieval is no exception to this. Recently, several benchmarks have been developed for visual information...
Abstract Web-based Delineation of Imprecise Regions (2008)
Avi Arampatzis, Marc Van Kreveld, Iris Reinbacher, Christopher B. Jones, Subodh Vaid, Paul Clough, ...
This paper describes several steps in the derivation of boundaries of imprecise regions using the Web as the information source. We discuss how to use the Web to obtain locations that are part of and...
Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark S, Hideo Joho, Paul Clough, Vivien Petras
GeoCLEF is a new track for CLEF 2005. GeoCLEF was run as a pilot track to evaluate retrieval of multilingual documents with an emphasis on geographic search. Existing evaluation campaigns such as...
Searching and Organizing Images Across Languages (2008)
With the continual growth of users on the Web from a wide range of countries, supporting such users in their search of cultural heritage collections will grow in importance. In the next few years,...
Testing an automatic organisation of retrieved images into a hierarchy (2008)
Mark S, Jian Tian, Paul Clough
Image retrieval is of growing interest to both search engines and academic researchers with increased focus on both content-based and caption-based approaches. Image search, however, is different...
Designing Multilingual Information Access to Tate Online (2008)
The Tate is Britain's premier national art gallery and includes content from internationally-renowned artists such as Constable and Turner. Like most cultural heritage institutions, the Tate...
The Eurovision St Andrews Collection of Photographs (2008)
This report describes the Eurovision image collection compiled for the ImageCLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) evaluation exercise. The image collection consists of around 30,000 photographs from...
In this paper we present Eurovision, a text-based system for cross-language (CL) image retrieval. The system is evaluated by multilingual users for two search tasks with the system configured in...
Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure (2008)
Cox, Andrew M., Clough, Paul, Marlow, Jennifer
Introduction. The use of Flickr, a photo sharing Website, is examined in the context of amateur photography as a 'serious leisure' pursuit. Method. Eleven telephone interviews were carried out with...
Rik De Busser, Regina Barzilay, Paul Clough, Bruce Croft, Norbert Fuhr, Fredric Gey, ...
In cooperation with: Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and IT Research Group Legal Informatics & Information Retrieval IWT Vlaanderen Proceedings editors
Abstract. One of the aims of EuroWordNet (EWN) was to provide a resource for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). In this paper we present experiments which test the usefulness of EWN for...
Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2007 photographic retrieval task (2007)
Michael Grubinger, Paul Clough, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller
ImageCLEFphoto 2007 is the general photographic ad-hoc retrieval task of the Image-CLEF 2007 evaluation campaign and provides both the resources and the framework necessary to perform comparative...
M.: User’s effectiveness and satisfaction for image retrieval (2006)
Azzah Al-maskari, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
This paper presents results from an initial user study exploring the relationship between system effectiveness as quantified by traditional measures such as precision and recall, and users’...
W.: Overview of the imageclefmed 2006 medical retrieval and medical annotation tasks (2006)
Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Deserno, Paul Clough, Eugene Kim, William Hersh
Abstract. This paper describes the medical image retrieval and annotation tasks of ImageCLEF 2006. Both tasks are described with respect to goals, databases, topics, results, and techniques. The...
W.: Overview of the imageclefmed 2006 medical retrieval and medical annotation tasks (2006)
Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Lehmann, Paul Clough
This paper will describe the medial image annotation and medical image retrieval tasks of ImageCLEF 2006. For the first time these tasks will be described in a separate paper to reduce the size of...
Providing multilingual access to flickr for arabic users (2006)
Paul Clough, Azzah Al-maskari, Kareem Darwish
Abstract. In this paper we describe our submission for iCLEF2006: an interface that allows users to search FLICKR in Arabic for images with captions in a range of languages. We report and discuss the...
W.: Overview of the imageclefmed 2006 medical retrieval and medical annotation tasks (2006)
Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Lehmann, Paul Clough
This paper describes the medial image retrieval and the medical annotation tasks of ImageCLEF 2006. These tasks are described in a separate paper from the other task to reduce the size of the...
H.: Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 photographic retrieval and object annotation tasks (2006)
Paul Clough, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller
This paper describes the general photographic retrieval and object annotation tasks of the ImageCLEF 2006 evaluation campaign. These tasks provide both the resources and the framework necessary to...
H.: Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 photographic retrieval and object annotation tasks (2006)
Paul Clough, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller
Abstract. This paper describes the general photographic retrieval and object annotation tasks of the ImageCLEF 2006 evaluation campaign. These tasks provided both the resources and the framework...
The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (ImageCLEF) 2004 (2005)
Paul Clough, Mark S, Henning Müller
Abstract. In this paper we describe ImageCLEF 1, the cross language image retrieval track of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 3). We instigated and ran a pilot experiment in 2003 where...
Geographic IR systems: requirements and evaluation (2005)
Bénédicte Bucher, Paul Clough, Hideo Joho, Ross Purves, Awase Khirni Syed
Geographic information retrieval is a new and evolving domain. The development of GIR systems requires the analysis of requirements for such systems and, after systems are implemented their...
The CLEF 2004 Cross Language Image Retrieval Track (2005)
Paul Clough, Henning Müller, Mark S
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to outline efforts from the 2004 CLEF cross–language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). The aim of this CLEF track is to explore the use of both text and...
Overview of the CLEF 2005 interactive track (2005)
Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough, Ro Vallin
Abstract. The CLEF Interactive Track (iCLEF) is devoted to the comparative study of user-inclusive cross-language search strategies. In 2005, we have studied two cross-language search tasks:...
Concept Hierarchy across Languages in Text-Based Image Retrieval: A User Evaluation (2005)
Abstract. The University of Sheffield participated in Interactive ImageCLEF 2005 with a comparative user evaluation of two interfaces: one displaying search results as a list, the other organizing...
The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track (2005)
Paul Clough, Henning Müeller, Thomas Deselaers, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Lehmann, Jeffrey Jensen, ...
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to outline efforts from the 2005 CLEF crosslanguage image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). The aim of this CLEF track is to explore the use of both text and...
P.: Towards a topic complexity measure for cross–language image retrieval (2005)
Michael Grubinger, Clement Leung, Paul Clough
Abstract. Selecting suitable topics in order to assess system effectiveness is a crucial part of any benchmark, particularly those for retrieval systems. This includes establishing a range of example...
Automatically Organising Images using Concept Hierarchies (2005)
In this paper we discuss the use of concept hierarchies, an approach to automatically organize a set of documents based upon a set of concepts derived from the documents themselves for image...
The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track (2005)
Paul Clough, Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Michael Grubinger, Thomas M. Lehmann, Jeffery Jensen, ...
Abstract. This paper outlines efforts from the 2005 CLEF cross–language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). Aim of the CLEF track is to explore the use of both text and content–based retrieval...
The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Image Retrieval Track (2005)
Paul Clough, Henning Müeller, Thomas Deselaers, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Lehmann, Jeffery Jensen, ...
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to outline efforts from the 2005 CLEF crosslanguage image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). The aim of this CLEF track is to explore the use of both text and...
T.M: The CLEF 2005 automatic medical image annotation task. CLEF (2005)
Thomas Deselaers, Henning Müller, Paul Clough, Hermann Ney, Thomas M. Lehmann
In this paper, the automatic annotation task from the 2005 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF) is described. This paper focuses on the database used, the task setup, and the...
Michael Grubinger, Clement Leung, Paul Clough
Abstract. This paper describes a new image collection created for the CLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) cross-language image retrieval (ImageCLEF) track. This royalty-free collection provides...
A Proposal for Comparative Evaluation of Automatic Annotation for Georeferenced Documents (2004)
documents
Measuring a Cross Language Image Retrieval System (2004)
Mark S, Paul Clough, Catherine Paterson, Wai Tung Lo
Cross language information retrieval is a field of study that has received significant research attention, resulting in systems that despite the errors of automatic translation (from query to...
H.: A proposal for the CLEF cross language image retrieval track (ImageCLEF) 2004 (2004)
Paul Clough, Mark S, Henning Müller
Abstract. In this paper we describe our proposal for a cross language image retrieval task called ImageCLEF 1 being run as part of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2). A pilot experiment was...
Web-based delineation of imprecise regions (2004)
Avi Arampatzis, Marc Van Kreveld, Iris Reinbacher, Christopher B. Jones, Subodh Vaid, Paul Clough, ...
This paper describes several steps in the derivation of boundaries of imprecise regions using the Web as the information source. We discuss how to use the Web to obtain locations that are part of and...
Measuring Pseudo Relevance Feedback & CLIR (2004)
In this poster, we report on the effects of pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) for a cross language image retrieval task using a test collection. Typically PRF has been shown to improve retrieval...
A Proposal for Comparative Evaluation of Automatic Annotation for Georeferenced Documents (2004)
documents
Old and new challenges in automatic plagiarism detection (2003)
Automatic methods of measuring similarity between program code and natural language text pairs have been used for many years to assist humans in detecting plagiarism. For example, over the past...
Eurovision-An Image-Based CLIR System (2002)
This short position paper outlines the aims of the Eurovision project, which will explore cross language retrieval of images via their text captions. We propose that CLEF, as a part of its future...
The meter corpus: A corpus for analysing journalistic text reuse (2001)
Robert Gaizauskas, Jonathan Foster, Yorick Wilks, John Arundel, Paul Clough, Scott Piao
As a part of the METER (MEasuring TExt Reuse) project we have built a new type of comparable corpus consisting of annotated examples of related newspaper texts. Texts in the corpus were manually...
The economy and culture of the Talakawa of Marmara. (1995)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 1995.