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CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Language-Dependent and Language-Independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval
Abstract. We investigates the effectiveness of language-dependent approaches to document retrieval, such as stemming and decompounding, and constrast them with language-independen...
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, B&oum...
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-Language Question Answering at the USC Information Sciences Institute
Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Information Retrieval
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...
Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim
Fusion and optimization based on relevance judgements have proven to be successful strategies in information retrieval. In this year's CLEF campaign we applied these strategi...
René Hackl, Ralph Kölle, Thomas Mandl,...
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval
Motivated by the hypothesis that the retrieval performance of a weighting model is independent of the language in which queries and collection are expressed, we compared the retrie...
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection
Bonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The CLEF 2003 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
The current expansion in collections of natural language based digital documents in various media and languages is creating challenging opportunities for automatically accessing t...
Marcello Federico, Gareth J. F. Jones
CLEF
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
In this paper we propose several merging strategies to integrate the result lists of each intermediate run in distributed MLIR. The prediction of retrieval effectiveness was used t...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen