It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
In this paper, we deal with information retrieval approach based on language model paradigm, which has been intensively investigated in recent years. We propose, implement, and ev...
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...
ImageCLEF is a pilot experiment run at CLEF 2003 for cross language image retrieval using textual captions related to image contents. In this paper, we describe the participation o...
This year, we have participated on multilingual two years on and Multi-8 merging-only CLEF task. Our main interest has been to test several usual CLIR tasks and investigate how th...