Cross-language information retrieval and evaluation : workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 21-22, 2000 : revised papers

Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2000 Lisbon, Portugal, September 21–22, 2000 Revised Papers
Author: Carol Peters
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-540-42446-8
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44645-1

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 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
• 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

Includes bibliographical references and index