CLEF 2007 Workshop Budapest, Hungary, 19–21 September 2007 Nicola Ferro Information Management Systems (IMS) Research Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua, Italy Ad-hoc break-out session

CLEF 2007 Budapest, Hungary, 19–21 September 2007 Ad-hoc Break-out Session Broadening Ad-hoc Horizons Bibliographic catalogue records from The European Library (TEL)  challenging task with real data towards real users  monolingual, bilingual, multilingual tasks  six different languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese  domain-specific focused on controlled-vocabulary part of the records 2

CLEF 2007 Budapest, Hungary, 19–21 September 2007 Ad-hoc Break-out Session Strengthening the Techniques Robust Task with Word Sense Disambiguation  ad-hoc collections annotated with “Word Sense” tags  LATIMES 1994 and GH 1995  monolingual en, bilingual X  en  hard topics will be chosen to give the possibility of developing advanced techniques to deal with them 3

CLEF 2007 Budapest, Hungary, 19–21 September 2007 Ad-hoc Break-out Session Saying Good bye  More traditional monolingual and bilingual task…  … but the collections are still there and you can continue to experiment with them 4