In the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Track we experimented with language-specific morphosyntactic processing and light Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the retrieval of Bulgarian, French, Italian, English and Greek. Categories and Subject Descriptors [H.3 Information Storage and Retrieval]: H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing – Linguistic Processing; H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval – Information Filtering, Retrieval Models. Keywords Cross Language Information Retrieval, Morphological Analysis, Part-of-Speech Tagging.