Abstract. For our third participation in the CLEF evaluation campaign, our objective for both multilingual tracks is to propose a new merging strategy that does not require a train...
This paper reports on the participation of ITC-irst in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2003; in particular, in the monolingual, bilingual, small multilingual, and spoken docum...
This paper reports on the pilot question answering track that was carried out within the CLEF initiative this year. The track was divided into monolingual and bilingual tasks: mono...
Abstract. We present in this report two main approaches to cross-language information retrieval based on the exploitation of multilingual corpora to derive cross-lingual term-term ...
This paper presents the extension of the ITC-irst DIOGENE Question Answering system towards multilinguality. DIOGENE relies on a well tested three-components architecture built in...