CLEF 2001
CLEF2001 Working Notes

Table of Contents

Preface

• Foreword
  Carol Peters

Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

• The CLEF 2001 Interactive Track
  Douglas W. Oard
• iCLEF at Sheffield
  Zoë Bathie, Mark Sanderson
• iCLEF 2001 at Maryland: Comparing Word-for-Word Gloss and MT
  Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard
• Noun Phrase Translations for Cross-Language Document Selection
  Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo

Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval

• Report on CLEF-2001 Experiments
  Jacques Savoy
• Multilingual Information Retrieval using English and Chinese Queries
  Aitao Chen
• TNO at CLEF-2001: Comparing Translation Resources
  Wessel Kraaij
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2001: Monolingual and Bilingual Tracks
  Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico
• Experiments with the Eurospider Retrieval System for CLEF 2001
  Martin Braschler, Bärbel Ripplinger, Peter Schäuble
• NTU at CLEF 2001: Chinese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
  Hsin-Hsi Chen, Weg-Cheng Lin
• UTACLIR @ CLEF 2001: New Features for Handling Compound Words and Untranslatable Proper Names
  Turid Hedlund, Heikki Keskustalo, Ari Pirkola, Eija Airio, Kalervo Järvelin
• IR-n, a Passage Retrieval System from University of Alicante, at Clef 2001
  Fernando Llopis, Jose Luis Vicedo
• Using Statistical Translation Models for Bilingual IR
  Jian-Yun Nie, Michel Simard
• CMU PRF using a Comparable Corpus
  Monica Rogati, Yiming Yang
• Mercure at CLEF-2
  N. Nassr, M. Boughanem
• Vector-based Semantic Analysis using Random Indexing and Morphological Analysis for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
  Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren
• Query Expansion Techniques for the CLEF Bilingual Track
  Fatiha Sadat, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Uemura
• Exeter at CLEF 2001: Experiments with Machine Translation for Bilingual Retrieval
  Gareth J.F. Jones, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina
• Intelligent Information Access Systems (SINAI) at CLEF 2001: Calculating Translation Probabilities with SemCor
  Fernando Martinez Santiago, L. Alfonso Ureña López, Manuel Carlos Díaz Galiano, Manuel García Vega, Maite Martín Valdivia
• JHU/APL Experiments at CLEF: Translation Resources and Score Normalization
  Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
• CLEF 2001 Bilingual Task: Simple Dictionary-Based Query Translation
  Marine Carpuat, Pascale Fung
• Dictionary-based Thai CLIR: Experimental Survey of Thai CLIR
  Jaruskulchai Chuleerat
• English-Dutch CLIR Using Query Translation Techniques
  Mirna Adriani
• Thomson Legal and Regulatory at CLEF 2001: Monolingual and Bilingual Experiments
  Hugo Molina-Salgado, Isabelle Moulinier, Mark Knutson, Elizabeth Lund, Kirat Sekhon
• Working with Russian Queries for the GIRT, Bilingual and Multilingual CLEF Tasks
  Frederic C. Gey, Hailing Jiang, Natalia Perelman
• CLEF 2001 Experiments using KCSL Retrieval System
  Ilia Kaufman, Meena Ghanekar
• The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2001
  Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke
• Hummingbird's Fulcrum SearchServer at CLEF2001
  Stephen Tomlinson
• Minimalistic Test Runs of the Eidetica Indexer
  Teresita Frizzarin, Annius Groenink
• Across the Bridge: CLEF 2001 - Non-English Monolingual Retrieval. The French task
  Eugenia Matoyo, Tony Valsamidis
• Some Terms are more Interchangeable than Others
  Jakob Klok, Samuel Driessen, Marvin Brunner
• Mpro-IR in Clef 2001
  Bärbel Ripplinger
• Stemming in Spanish: A First Approach to its Impact on Information Retrieval
  Carlos G. Figuerola, Raquel Gómez, Angel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal
• First Experiments with CLEF
  Peter van der Weerd, Wilfred Blom

Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

• CLIR System Evaluation at NTCIR Workshops
  Noriko Kando
• Report from TREC-9
  Donna Harman, Ellen Voorhees
• Philosophy of IR Evaluation
  Ellen Voorhees

Appendix

• Appendix - Run Statistics