Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-Hoc Bilingual Task at CLEF 2007

This paper presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of participation in the CLEF 2007 ad-hoc bilingual task. This is our first participation in the CLEF evaluation task and we have considered Bengali, Hindi and Telugu as query languages for the retrieval from English document collection. We have discussed our Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English CLIR system as part of the ad-hoc bilingual task, English IR system for the ad-hoc monolingual task and the associated experiments at CLEF. Query construction was manual for Telugu-English ad-hoc bilingual task, while it was automatic for all other tasks. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing; H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval; H.3.4 Systems and Software; H.2.3 [Database Management]: Languages-Query Languages General Terms Languages, Performance, Experimentation Keywords Ad-hoc cross language information retrieval, Indian languages, Bengal...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Tapabrata Mondal, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Asif Ekbal, Rejwanul Haque, Srinivasa Rao Godhavarthy
• Keywords: Ad-hoc Bilingual Task, Ad-hoc Monolingual Task, CLEF 2007, CLEF Evaluation Task, Information Retrieval