Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Carol Peters

      Pages 1-6

3. Evaluation for CLIR Systems

   1. CLIR Evaluation at TREC

      • Donna Harman, Martin Braschler, Michael Hess, Michael Kluck, Carol Peters, Peter Schäuble et al.

      Pages 7-23

   2. NTCIR Workshop : Japanese- and Chinese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Multi-grade Relevance Judgments

      • Noriko Kando

      Pages 24-35

   3. Language Resources in Cross-Language Text Retrieval: A CLEF Perspective

      • Julio Gonzalo

      Pages 36-47

   4. The Domain-Specific Task of CLEF - Specific Evaluation Strategies in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

      • Michael Kluck, Fredric C. Gey

      Pages 48-56

   5. Evaluating Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Document Selection

      • Douglas W. Oard

      Pages 57-71

   6. New Challenges for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Multimedia Data and the User Experience

      • Gareth J.F. Jones

      Pages 72-82

   7. Research to Improve Cross-Language Retrieval — Position Paper for CLEF

      • Fredric C. Gey

      Pages 83-88

4. The CLEF-2000 Experiments

   1. CLEF 2000 — Overview of Results

      • Martin Braschler

      Pages 89-101

   2. Translation Resources, Merging Strategies, and Relevance Feedback for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

      • Djoerd Hiemstra, Wessel Kraaij, Renée Pohlmann, Thijs Westerveld

      Pages 102-115

   3. Cross-Language Retrieval for the CLEF Collections — Comparing Multiple Methods of Retrieval

      • Fredric C. Gey, Hailing Jiang, Vivien Petras, Aitao Chen

      Pages 116-128

   4. A Language-Independent Approach to European Text Retrieval

      • Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Christine Piatko

      Pages 129-139

   5. Experiments with the Eurospider Retrieval System for CLEF 2000

      • Martin Braschler, Peter Scháuble

      Pages 140-148

   6. A Poor Man’s Approach to CLEF

      • Arjen P. de Vries

      Pages 149-155

   7. Ambiguity Problem in Multiingual Information Retrieval

      • Mirna Adriani

      Pages 156-165

   8. The Use of NLP Techniques in CLIR

      • Bärbel Ripplinger

      Pages 166-175

   9. CLEF Experiments at Maryland: Statistical Stemming and Backoff Translation

      • Douglas W. Oard, Gina-Anne Levow, Clara I. Cabezas

      Pages 176-187

   10. Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Parallel Texts from the Web

       • Jian-Yun Nie, Michel Simard, George Foster

       Pages 188-201

   11. Mercure at CLEF-1

       • Mohand Boughanem, Nawel Nassr

       Pages 202-209

The first evaluation campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to September 2000. The campaign cul- nated in a two-day workshop in Lisbon, Portugal, 21 22 September, immediately following the fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000). The first day of the workshop was open to anyone interested in the area of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) and addressed the topic of CLIR system evaluation. The goal was to identify the actual contribution of evaluation to system development and to determine what could be done in the future to stimulate progress. The second day was restricted to participants in the CLEF 2000 evaluation campaign and to their - periments. This volume constitutes the proceedings of the workshop and provides a record of the campaign. CLEF is currently an activity of the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital - braries, funded by the EC Information Society Technologies to further research in digital library technologies. The activity is organized in collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The support of DELOS and NIST in the running of the evaluation campaign is gratefully acknowledged. I should also like to thank the other members of the Workshop Steering Committee for their assistance in the organization of this event.

• Bilingual Information
• Cross-Language Information Retrieval
• Cross-Language Text Retrieval
• DOM
• Information Extraction
• Information Retrieval
• Multilingual Information
• Multimedia
• NLP Queries
• Natural Language Processing
• morphology

• Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione, Pisa, Italy

  Carol Peters

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