CLEF 2016

Articles

• TimeLine illustration of a festival based on Microblogs
  3 November 2015, by Lorraine, Philippe

  Objective
  The goal of this task is to link the events of a festival program to a related microblog posts. This information is very important for attendees of festivals and for organizers to get feedback.
  Microblog posts will be provided with their timestamps, which are crucial as a basis for the requested linking.
  Participants will be have to provide a timetable for each event using the 10 best tweets based on their relevance and diversity. In this task, diversity is a must because (…)

• TimeLine Illustration based on Microblogs
  19 October 2016, by Lorraine, Philippe

  This paper by Nayanika DOGRA, Philippe MULHEM, Nawal OULD AMER, and Lorraine GOEURIOT presents the approach used by the LIG-MRIM research group to the participation of the pilot task TimeLine illustration based on Microblogs for the 2016 CLEF Cultural Microblog Contextualization WorkShop that lead to the 2017 lab.

• Wikipedia XML corpus for summary generation
  18 October 2016, by sanjuan

  Wikipedia is under Creative Commons license, and its contents can be used to contextualize tweets or to build complex queries referring to Wikipedia entities.
  We have extracted an average of 10 million XML documents from Wikipedia per year since 2012 in the four main twitter languages:- en, es, fr and pt.
  These documents reproduce in an easy-to-use XML structure the contents of the main Wikipedia pages: title, abstract, section and subsections as well as Wikipedia internal links. Other (…)