The first CLEF campaign was a big success in attracting increased participation when
compared to its predecessor, the TREC8 cross-language track. Both the number of …

Multilingual retrieval (querying of multiple document collections each in a different
language) can be achieved by combining several individual techniques which enhance …

We describe the Eurospider component for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)
that has been employed for experiments at all three CLEF campaigns to date. The central …

This paper describes and evaluates different retrieval strategies that are useful for search
operations on document collections written in various European languages, namely French …

This paper describes the domain-specific cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) task of
CLEF, why and how it is important and how it differs from general cross-language retrieval …

This paper describes a search technology which enables improved search across diverse
genres of digital objects-documents, patents, cross-language retrieval, numeric data and …

When documents and queries are presented in different languages, the common approach
is to translate the query into the document language. While there are a variety of query …

The motivations behind the creation of the German Indexing and Retrieval Test database
(GIRT) are described and an overview of the structure of the different versions of GIRT is …

This paper reports the outcomes of a longitudinal study on the CLEF Ad Hoc track in order to
assess its impact on the effectiveness of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual information …

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) enables users to express queries in a language
different from the language of the documents to be retrieved. For example, a Finnish …