Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval [electronic resource] : 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Carol Peters, Valentin Jijkoun, Thomas Mandl, Henning Müller, Douglas W. Oard, Anselmo Peñas, Vivien Petras, Diana Santos.

I: Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc) -- II: Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific) -- III: Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF) -- IV: Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF) -- V: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) -- VI: Multilingual Web Retrieval (WebCLEF) -- VII: Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF) -- VIII: CLEF in Other Evaluations.

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 selected for inclusion in the book. There are 115 contributions in total and an introduction. The seven distrinct evaluation tracks in CLEF 2007, are designed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc), Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), cross-language retrieval in image collections (Image CLEF), cross-language speech retrieval (CL-SR), multilingual Web retrieval (WebCLEF), cross-language geographical retrieval (GeoCLEF), and CLEF in other evaluations.