Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), a process in which searcher and system collaborate to find documents that satisfy an information need regardless of the la...
We report on the CLEF 2006 WebCLEF track devoted to crosslingual web retrieval. We provide details about the retrieval tasks, the used topic set, and the results of WebCLEF partic...
Abstract. Cross-lingual event tracking from a very large number of information sources (thousands of Web sites, for example) is an open challenge. In this paper we investigate effe...
Sheffield’s contribution to the interactive cross language information retrieval track took the approach of comparing user’s abilities at judging the relevance of machine tran...
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...