Having set general frames for our study [Mandel, 2007] and our software, SimOx, [Mandel et al., 2008] in previous publications, this report aims at giving a brief overview of the experimental part of the research done in 2008. The experiments were divided in two periods: from January to June and from October to the end of the year. During the first period, results were collected to validate a p...

This paper reports our multimedia information retrieval experiments carried out for the ImageCLEF track (ImageCLEFwiki). The task is to answer to user information needs, i.e. queries which may be composed of several modalities (text, image, concept) with ranked lists of relevant documents. The purpose of our experiments is twofold: firstly, our overall aim is to develop a multimedia document mo...

This paper presents the participation of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the TAC 2008 competition. The systems for the participated tracks are introduced respectively.

CWI used PF/Tijah, a flexible XML retrieval system, to evaluate image retrieval based on textual evidence in the context of the wikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2008. We employed a language modelling framework and found that the text associated with the Wikipedia images is a good source of evidence. We also investigated a length prior and found that biasing towards images with longer descriptions ...

ERSS 2008 attempted to rectify certain issues of ERSS 2007. The improvements to readability, however, do not reflect in significant score increases, and in fact the system fell in overall ranking. While we have not concluded our analysis, we present some preliminary observations here.

High Level Feature Extraction runs. 1. A VITALAS.CERTH.ITI 1: Combination of early fusion and concept score fusion with feature selection. 2. A VITALAS.CERTH.ITI 2: Concept score fusion with feature selection. 3. A VITALAS.CERTH.ITI 3: Clustering within feature space and concept score fusion with feature selection. 4. A VITALAS.CERTH.ITI 4: Concept score fusion for selected low level features. ...

pistachio psylla, agonoscena pistaciae burckhardt & lauterer, is a key pest of pistachio trees in the pistachio-producing regions throughout iran. the investigation of biology of pests under the field condition in each region is the first step that must be taken in developing an integrated pest management program. the seasonal fluctuations of eggs, nymphs and adults of pistachio psylla were inv...

PURPOSE To analize changing trends in indications and surgical techniques of corneal transplantation at an ophthalmological tertiary referral center in Colombia over a 7 year period. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed of medical records from patients who underwent corneal transplantation surgeries at Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander (FOSCAL) in Bucaramanga, Colombia, between A...