EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus

EuroGOV is a multilingual web corpus that was created to serve as the document collection for WebCLEF, the CLEF 2005 web retrieval task. EuroGOV is a collection of web pages crawled from the European Union portal, European Union member state governmental web sites, and Russian government web sites. The corpus contains over 3 million documents written in more than 20 different European languages. In this paper we provide a detailed description of the EuroGOV collection. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing; H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval; H.3.4 Systems and Software; H.3.7 Digital Libraries General Terms Measurement, Performance, Experimentation Keywords Multilingual web corpus, Web retrieval, Multilingual retrieval

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke
• Keywords: CLEF 2005, Multilingual Web Corpus, Web Retrieval, Web Retrieval Task