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Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems

4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected Papers

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Editors:
  1. Carol Peters

    1. ISTI-CNR, Area di Ricerca, Pisa, Italy

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  4. Michael Kluck

    1. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (65 papers)

  1. Mainly Cross-Language Experiments

    1. MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Baseline for Future Research

      • José L. Martínez, Julio Villena, Jorge Fombella, Ana G. Serrano, Paloma Martínez, Josê M. Goñi et al.
      Pages 210-219

    2. Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word Translation

      • Giorgio M. Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio
      Pages 220-235

    3. Clairvoyance CLEF-2003 Experiments

      • Yan Qu, Gregory Grefenstette, David A. Evans
      Pages 236-241

    4. Simple Translations of Monolingual Queries Expanded Through an Association Thesaurus

      • Gilles Sérasset, Jean-Pierre Chevallet
      Pages 242-252

    5. Two-Stage Refinement of Query Translation in a Pivot Language Approach to Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval: An Experiment at CLEF 2003

      • Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando
      Pages 253-262

    6. Regular Sound Changes for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

      • Michael P. Oakes, Souvik Banerjee
      Pages 263-270

    7. Exeter at CLEF 2003: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval

      • Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones
      Pages 271-285

  2. Monolingual Experiments

    1. Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2003

      • Stephen Tomlinson
      Pages 286-300

    2. Océ at CLEF 2003

      • Roel Brand, Marvin Brünner, Samuel Driessen, Pascha Iljin, Jakob Klok
      Pages 301-309

    3. Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval

      • Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
      Pages 310-318

    4. Pruning Texts with NLP and Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearch

      • Gil Francopoulo
      Pages 319-321

    5. Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval

      • Jacques Savoy
      Pages 322-336

    6. Selective Compound Splitting of Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated Terms

      • Rickard Cöster, Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren
      Pages 337-344

    7. COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003 in the Spanish Monolingual Track

      • Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, Francisco J. Ribadas
      Pages 345-357

    8. Experiments with Self Organizing Maps in CLEF 2003

      • Javier Fernández, Ricardo Mones, Irene Díaz, José Ranilla, Elías F. Combarro
      Pages 358-366

    9. Ricoh at CLEF 2003

      • Yuichi Kojima, Hideo Itoh, Hiroko Mano, Yasushi Ogawa
      Pages 367-372

    10. MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using Keyword Disambiguation

      • Peter van der Weerd
      Pages 373-375

  3. Part II. Domain-Specific Document Retrieval

    1. The GIRT Data in the Evaluation of CLIR Systems – from 1997 Until 2003

      • Michael Kluck
      Pages 376-390

    2. A Data-Compression Approach to the Monolingual GIRT Task: An Agnostic Point of View

      • Daniela Alderuccio, Luciana Bordoni, Vittorio Loreto
      Pages 391-400

    3. UC Berkeley at CLEF-2003 – Russian Language Experiments and Domain-Specific Retrieval

      • Vivien Petras, Natalia Perelman, Fredric Gey
      Pages 401-411
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The fourth campaign of the Cross-language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to August 2003. Participation in this campaign showed a slight rise in the number of participants from the previous year, with 42 groups submitting results for one or more of the different tracks (compared with 37 in 2002), but a steep rise in the number of experiments attempted. A distinctive feature of CLEF 2003 was the number of new tracks and tasks that were offered as pilot experiments. The aim was to try out new ideas and to encourage the development of new evaluation methodologies, suited to the emerging requirements of both system developers and users with respect to today’s digital collections and to encourage work on many European languages rather than just those most widely used. CLEF is thus gradually pushing its participants towards the ultimate goal: the development of truly multilingual systems capable of processing collections in diverse media. The campaign culminated in a two-day workshop held in Trondheim, Norway, 21–22 August, immediately following the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003), and attended by more than 70 researchers and system developers. The objective of the workshop was to bring together the groups that had participated in the CLEF 2003 campaign so that they could report on the results of their experiments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ISTI-CNR, Area di Ricerca, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  • No Affiliations,  

    Julio Gonzalo, Martin Braschler

  • German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany

    Michael Kluck

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