Robust Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments with French and English at the University of Hildesheim

This paper reports on experiments submitted for the robust task at CLEF 2006 ad intended to provide a baseline for other runs for the robust task. We applied a system previously tested for ad-hoc retrieval. Runs for mono-lingual English and French were submitted. Results on both training as well as test topics are reported. Only for French, positive results above 0.2 MAP were achieved. 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 General Terms Measurement, Performance, Experimentation Keywords Multilingual Retrieval, Robust Retrieval, Evaluation Measures

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Thomas Mandl, René Hackl, Christa Womser-Hacker
• Keywords: Ad-hoc Retrieval, CLEF 2006, Information Management, Keywords Multilingual Retrieval, Robust Task