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This paper reports on experiments submitted for the robust task at CLEF 2006 ad intended to provide a baseline for other runs for the robust task. We applied a system previously tested for ad-hoc retrieval. Runs for mono-lingual English and French were submitted. Results on both training as well as test topics are reported. Only for French, positive results above 0.2 MAP were achieved.
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Mandl, T., Hackl, R., Womser-Hacker, C. (2007). Robust Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments with French and English at the University of Hildesheim. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_17
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