Selection and Merging Strategies for Multilingual Information Retrieval

For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our objective was to verify whether our combined query translation approach would work well with new requests and new languages (Russian and Portuguese in this case). As a second objective, we suggested a selecting procedure that could extract a smaller number of documents from collections that for the current request seem to contain no or only few relevant items. We also applied different merging strategies in order to obtain more evidence on the respective relative merits.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Jacques Savoy, Pierre-Yves Berger
• Keywords: CLEF 2004, CLEF Evaluation Campaigns, Query Translation Approach, Respective Relative Merits