Comparative evaluation of multilingual information access systems : 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003 : revised papers

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
Author: Carol Peters, Julio Gonzalo, Martin Braschler, Michael Kluck
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-540-24017-4
DOI: 10.1007/b102261

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• CLEF 2003 Methodology and Metrics
• Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum
• Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at the NTCIR Workshop
• CLEF 2003 – Overview of Results
• Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual Tracks
• The Impact of Word Normalization Methods and Merging Strategies on Multilingual IR
• JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-word Translation
• Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora
• Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval
• Cross-Language Experiments with the IR-n System
• Multilingual Information Retrieval Using Open, Transparent Resources in CLEF 2003
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Information Retrieval
• Language-Dependent and Language-Independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval
• Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim
• Concept-Based Searching and Merging for Multilingual Information Retrieval: First Experiments at CLEF 2003
• CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB: Automatically Generated Phrases and Relevance Feedback for Improving CLIR
• SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging
• Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
• MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Baseline for Future Research

Includes bibliographical references and index