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As part of the CLEF cross language evaluation forum, a collection of just
under 30,000 images each with a text caption (approx. 44 words) is now
available, a set of queries translated into a range of languages will be
released in the next month to allow researchers to explore both
monolingual and cross language image retrieval. Although Cross Language
Image Retrieval by text caption has been much discussed, little research
has been conducted on this topic; we hope this collection will facilitate
such research. The images are a set of mainly monochrome photographs
(368x234) taken from St. Andrews University's collection of Scottish
photographers.<br><br>
Those interested in working with the collection should contact Carol
Peters (carol@iei.pi.cnr.it) to sign the necessary copyright agreement
form so the collection can be released to them.<br><br>
As with all test collection exercises, we encourage participation to help
us form relevance judgements from a pool of submitted runs. The dates of
data release and run submission will follow those of CLEF (see URL
below). If a sufficient number of researchers contribute runs, we hope to
provide a forum for this research to be discussed at the CLEF meeting at
ECDL 2003.<br><br>
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Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 22648<br>
Department of Information Studies Fax: +44 (0) 114 27 80300<br>
University of Sheffield, Regent Court, <a href="mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk" eudora="autourl">mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk</a><br>
211 Portobello St., Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK <a href="http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/" eudora="autourl">http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/</a><br>
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Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement<br>
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