CLEF 2007

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007. The revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specific Information Retrieval, Multiple Language Question Answering, Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections, Cross-Language Speech retrieval, Multingual Web Retrieval, and Cross-Language Geographical retrieval.