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The University of Exeter group participated in the monolingual, bilingual and multilingual-4 retrieval tasks this year. The main focus of our investigation this year was the small multilingual task comprising four languages, French, German, Spanish and English. We adopted a document translation strategy and tested four merging techniques to combine results from the separate document collections, as well as a merged collection strategy. For both the monolingual and bilingual tasks we explored the use of a parallel collection for query expansion and term weighting, and also experimented with extending synonym information to conflate British and American English word spellings.
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Lam-Adesina, A.M., Jones, G.J.F. (2004). Exeter at CLEF 2003: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval. In: Peters, C., Gonzalo, J., Braschler, M., Kluck, M. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. CLEF 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_26
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