This paper describes the application of the two-step RSV and mixed two-step RSV merging methods over 8 and 4 multilingual tasks in CLEF 2003. We study their performance compared t...
We describe a method for modifying a monolingual English question answering system to allow it to accept French questions. Our method relies on a statistical translation engine to ...
The CLEF 2003 Interactive Track (iCLEF) was the third year of a shared experiment design to compare strategies for cross-language search assistance. Two kinds of experiments were p...
The aim of this project is the automatic conversion of query terms in one language into their equivalents in a second, historically related, language, so that documents in the sec...
This paper discusses the adaptation of the Scene of Crime Information System developed within an EPSRC-funded project, to the collection of data within the ImageCLEF track of the ...
ImageCLEF is a pilot experiment run at CLEF 2003 for cross language image retrieval using textual captions related to image contents. In this paper, we describe the participation o...
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...
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...