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Report on CLEF 2002 Experiments: Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence

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Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLEF 2002)

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In our second participation in the CLEF retrieval tasks, our first objective was to propose better and more general stopword lists for various European languages (namely, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Finnish) along with improved, simpler and efficient stemming procedures. Our second goal was to propose a combined query-translation approach that could cross language barriers and also an effective merging strategy based on logistic regression for accessing the multilingual collection. Finally, within the Amaryllis experiment, we wanted to analyze how a specialized thesaurus might improve retrieval effectiveness.

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  1. Institut interfacultaire d’informatique, Université de Neuchâtel, Pierre-à-Mazel 7, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Jacques Savoy

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  1. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTI-CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  2. Eurospider Information Technology AG, Schaffhauserstr. 18, 8006, Zürich, Switzerland

    Martin Braschler

  3. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Lenguajes y Sístemas Informáticos, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo

  4. Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute e.V. (IZ), Lennéstr. 30, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Michael Kluck

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Savoy, J. (2003). Report on CLEF 2002 Experiments: Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence. In: Peters, C., Braschler, M., Gonzalo, J., Kluck, M. (eds) Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. CLEF 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45237-9_6

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