Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Workshop of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000, Revised Papers

ISBN-13: 9783540424468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 394 str.

Carol Peters

Opis

These are the refereed post-proceedings of the international Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Workshop organized by the CLEF activity of the European DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries. The 25 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully selected based on two rounds of reviewing. All current aspects of cross-language information retrieval are addressed, ranging from foundational issues and systems evaluation to applications in a variety of fields.

Spis treści

Evaluation for CLIR Systems.- CLIR Evaluation at TREC.- NTCIR Workshop : Japanese- and Chinese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Multi-grade Relevance Judgments.- Language Resources in Cross-Language Text Retrieval: A CLEF Perspective.- The Domain-Specific Task of CLEF - Specific Evaluation Strategies in Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Evaluating Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Document Selection.- New Challenges for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Multimedia Data and the User Experience.- Research to Improve Cross-Language Retrieval — Position Paper for CLEF.- The CLEF-2000 Experiments.- CLEF 2000 — Overview of Results.- Translation Resources, Merging Strategies, and Relevance Feedback for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Cross-Language Retrieval for the CLEF Collections — Comparing Multiple Methods of Retrieval.- A Language-Independent Approach to European Text Retrieval.- Experiments with the Eurospider Retrieval System for CLEF 2000.- A Poor Man’s Approach to CLEF.- Ambiguity Problem in Multiingual Information Retrieval.- The Use of NLP Techniques in CLIR.- CLEF Experiments at Maryland: Statistical Stemming and Backoff Translation.- Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Parallel Texts from the Web.- Mercure at CLEF-1.- Bilingual Tests with Swedish, Finnish, and German Queries: Dealing with Morphology, Compound Words, and Query Structure.- A Simple Approach to the Spanish-English Bilingual Retrieval Task.- Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Dutch Query Translation.- Bilingual Information Retrieval with HyREX and Internet Translation Services.- Sheffield University CLEF 2000 Submission — Bilingual Track: German to English.- West Group at CLEF 2000: Non-english Monolingual Retrieval.- ITC-irst at CLEF 2000: Italian Monolingual Track.- Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval.