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This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the international Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Workshop organized by the CLEF activity of the European DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries.The 25 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully selected based on two rounds of reviewing. All current aspects of cross-language information retrieval are addressed, ranging from foundational issues and systems evaluation to applications in a variety of fields.

Introduction

1

(6)

Carol Peters

Part I. Evaluation for CLIR Systems

CLIR Evaluation at TREC

7

(17)

Donna Harman

Martin Braschler

Michael Hess

Michael Kluck

Carol Peters

Peter Schauble

Paraic Sheridan

NTCIR Workshop: Japanese- and Chinese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Multi-grade Relevance Judgements

24

(12)

Noriko Kando

Language Resources in Cross-Language Text Retrieval: A CLEF Perspective

36

(12)

Julio Gonzalo

The Domain-Specific Task of CLEF - Specific Evaluation Strategies in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

48

(9)

Michael Kluck

Fredric C. Gey

Evaluating Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Document Selection

57

(15)

Douglas W. Oard

New Challenges for Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Multimedia Data and the User Experience

72

(11)

Gareth J.F. Jones

Research to Improve Cross-Language Retrieval - Position Paper for CLEF

83

(6)

Fredric C. Gey

Part II. The CLEF-2000 Experiments

CLEF 2000 - Overview of Results

89

(13)

Martin Braschler

Translation Resources, Merging Strategies, and Relevance Feedback for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

102

(14)

Djoerd Hiemstra

Wessel Kraaij

Renee Pohlmann

Thijs Westerveld

Cross-Language Retrieval for the CLEF Collections - Comparing Multiple Methods of Retrieval

116

(13)

Fredric C. Gey

Hailing Jiang

Vivien Petras

Aitao Chen

A Language-Independent Approach to European Text Retrieval

129

(11)

Paul McNamee

James Mayfield

Christine Piatko

Experiments with the Eurospider Retrieval System for CLEF 2000

140

(9)

Martin Braschler

Peter Schauble

A Poor Man's Approach to CLEF

149

(7)

Arjen P. de Vries

Ambiguity Problem in Multilingual Information Retrieval

156

(10)

Mirna Adriani

The Use of NLP Techniques in CLIR

166

(10)

Barbel Ripplinger

CLEF Experiments at Maryland: Statistical Stemming and Backoff Translation

176

(12)

Douglas W. Oard

Gina-Anne Levow

Clara I. Cabezas

Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Parallel Texts from the Web

188

(14)

Jian-Yun Nie

Michel Simard

George Foster

Mercure at CLEF-1

202

(8)

Mohand Boughanem

Nawel Nassr

Bilingual Tests with Swedish, Finnish, and German Queries: Dealing with Morphology, Compound Words, and Query Structure

210

(14)

Turid Hedlsnd

Heikki Keskustalo

Ari Pirkola

Mikaco Sepponen

Kalervo Jarvelin

A Simple Approach to the Spanish-English Bilingual Retrieval Task

224

(6)

Carlos G. Figuerola

Jose Luis Alonso Berrocal

Angel F. Zazo

Raquel Gomez Diaz

Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Dutch Query Translation

230

(7)

Anne R. Diekema

Wen-Yuan Hsiao

Bilingual Information Retrieval with HyREX and Internet Translation Services

237

(8)

Norbert Govert

Sheffield University CLEF 2000 Submission - Bilingual Track: German to English

245

(8)

Tim Gollins

Mark Sanderson

West Group at CLEF 2000: Non-english Monolingual Retrieval

253

(8)

Isabelle Moulinier

J. Andrew McCulloh

Elisabeth Lund

ITC-irst at CLEF 2000: Italian Monolingual Track

261

(12)

Nicola Bertoldi

Marcello Federico

Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval

273

(12)

John A. Goldsmith

Derrick Higgins

Svetlana Soglasnova

Appendix A - Run Statistics

285

(104)

Author Index

389

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