Multilingual interactive experiments with Flickr

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal for iCLEF 2006, the interactive track of the CLEF cross-language evaluation campaign. In the past, iCLEF has addressed applications such as information retrieval and question answering. However, for 2006 the focus has turned to text-based image retrieval from Flickr. We describe Flickr, the challenges this kind of collection presents to cross-language researchers, and suggest initial iCLEF tasks