Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Third Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2002 Rome, Italy, September 19–20, 2002 Revised Papers

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
CLEF 2002 — Overview of Results....Pages 9-27
Cross-Language Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2002....Pages 28-48
ITC-irst at CLEF 2002: Using N -Best Query Translations for CLIR....Pages 49-58
Océ at CLEF 2002....Pages 59-65
Report on CLEF 2002 Experiments: Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence....Pages 66-90
UTACLIR @ CLEF 2002 — Bilingual and Multilingual Runs with a Unified Process....Pages 91-100
A Multilingual Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval....Pages 101-110
Combining Evidence for Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 111-126
Exeter at CLEF 2002: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual and Bilingual Retrieval....Pages 127-146
Portuguese-English Experiments Using Latent Semantic Indexing....Pages 147-154
Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments for CLEF 2002....Pages 155-163
Eurospider at CLEF 2002....Pages 164-174
Merging Mechanisms in Multilingual Information Retrieval....Pages 175-186
SINAI at CLEF 2002: Experiments with Merging Strategies....Pages 187-196
Cross-Language Retrieval at the University of Twente and TNO....Pages 197-206
Scalable Multilingual Information Access....Pages 207-218
Some Experiments with the Dutch Collection....Pages 219-222
Resolving Translation Ambiguity Using Monolingual Corpora....Pages 223-241
Experiments in 8 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF 2002....Pages 242-256
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Italian Monolingual Information Retrieval with PROSIT....Pages 257-264
COLE Experiments in the CLEF 2002 Spanish Monolingual Track....Pages 265-278
Improving the Automatic Retrieval of Text Documents....Pages 279-290
IR-n System at CLEF-2002....Pages 291-300
Experiments in Term Expansion Using Thesauri in Spanish....Pages 301-310
SICS at CLEF 2002: Automatic Query Expansion Using Random Indexing....Pages 311-320
Pliers and Snowball at CLEF 2002....Pages 321-335
Experiments with a Chunker and Lucene....Pages 336-337
Information Retrieval with Language Knowledge....Pages 338-342
Domain Specific Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim....Pages 343-348
Using Thesauri in Cross-Language Retrieval of German and French Indexed Collections....Pages 349-362
Assessing Automatically Extracted Bilingual Lexicons for CLIR in Vertical Domains: XRCE Participation in the GIRT Track of CLEF 2002....Pages 363-371
The CLEF 2002 Interactive Track....Pages 372-382
SICS at iCLEF 2002: Cross-Language Relevance Assessment and Task Context....Pages 383-391
Universities of Alicante and Jaen at iCLEF....Pages 392-399
Comparing User-Assisted and Automatic Query Translation....Pages 400-415
Interactive Cross-Language Searching: Phrases Are Better than Terms for Query Formulation and Refinement....Pages 416-429
Exploring the Effect of Query Translation when Searching Cross-Language....Pages 430-445
CLEF 2002 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Pilot Track Report....Pages 446-457
Exeter at CLEF 2002: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments....Pages 458-475
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval on the TREC SDR Collection....Pages 476-481
Front Matter....Pages 483-483
CLIR at NTCIR Workshop 3: Cross-Language and Cross-Genre Retrieval....Pages 485-504
Linguistic and Statistical Analysis of the CLEF Topics....Pages 505-511
CLEF 2002 Methodology and Metrics....Pages 512-525
Back Matter....Pages 527-832