Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics [electronic resource] : Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2012. Proceedings / edited by Tiziana Catarci, Pamela Forner, Djoerd Hiemstra, Anselmo Peñas, Giuseppe Santucci.

Analysis and Refinement of Cross-Lingual Entity Linking -- Seven Years of INEX Interactive Retrieval Experiments - Lessons and Challenges -- Bringing the Algorithms to the Data: Cloud-Based Benchmarking for Medical Image Analysis -- Going beyond CLEF-IP: The 'Reality' for Patent Searchers? -- MusiClef: Multimodal Music Tagging Task -- Information Access Generating Pseudo Test Collections for Learning to Rank Scientific Articles -- Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study -- Cross-Language High Similarity Search Using a Conceptual Thesaurus -- The Appearance of the Giant Component in Descriptor Graphs and Its Application for Descriptor Selection -- Hidden Markov Model for Term Weighting in Verbose Queries -- Evaluation Methodologies and Infrastructure DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure -- Penalty Functions for Evaluation Measures of Unsegmented Speech Retrieval -- Cumulated Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation -- Better than Their Reputation? On the Reliability of Relevance Assessments with Students -- Comparing IR System Components Using Beanplots -- Language Independent Query Focused Snippet Generation -- A Test Collection to Evaluate Plagiarism by Missing or Incorrect References.