Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF

This paper presents a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). Several custom query construction, expansion and translation strategies are compared. We present the experiments and the corresponding results for the CLEF 2004 event.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George F. Foster, Claude St. Jacques
• Keywords: Bilingual Information Retrieval, CLEF 2004, Off-the-shelf Search Engines, Several Custom Query