Advances in Multilingual And Multimodal Information Retrieval

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007.The revised and extended papers were carefully reviewed and

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2000, held in Beijing, China in October 2000. The 38 revised full papers and 48 poster papers presented in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 172 submissions.

This volume celebrates the twentieth anniversary of CLEF - the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for the first ten years, and the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum since – and traces its evolution over these first two decades. CLEF’s main mission is to promote research, innovation and development of information retrieval (IR) systems by anticipating trends in information management in order to stimulate advances in the field of IR system experimentation and evaluation.

This book addresses state-of-the-art systems and achievements in various topics in the research field of speech and language technologies. Book chapters are organized in different sections covering diverse problems, which have to be solved in speech recognition and language understanding systems.