CLEF 2002
CLEF2002 Working Notes

Table of Contents

Preface

• Introduction
  Carol Peters

Mono- and Cross-Language IR for Scientific Collections

• Are Thesauri Useful in Cross-Language Information Retrieval?
  Vivien Petras, Natalia Perelman, Fredric Gey
• XRCE Participation in CLEF 2002
  Jean-Michel Renders, Hervé Dejean, Eric Gaussier
• Domain Specific Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim
  René Hackl, Ralph Kölle, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker

Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

• The CLEF 2002 Interactive Track
  Douglas W. Oard, Julio Gonzalo
• Cross-Language Relevance Assessment and Task Context
  Jussi Karlgren, Preben Hansen
• iCLEF at Universities of Alicante and Jaen
  Fernando Llopis, Antonio Ferraández, Jose Luis Vicedo, Manuel C. Diaz, Fernando Martínez
• Comparing User-assisted and Automatic Query Translation
  Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard, Michael Nossal
• Interactive Cross-Language Searching: Phrases are Better than Terms for Query Formulation and Refinement
  Fernando López-Ostenero, Julio Gonzalo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo
• Is Query Translation a Distinct Task from Search?
  Daniela Petrelli, George Demetriou, Patrick Herring, Micheline Beaulieu, Mark Sanderson

Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval

• Cross-language Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2002
  Aitao Chen
• Océ at CLEF 2002
  Roel Brand, Marvin Brünner
• Report on CLEF-2002 Experiments: Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence
  Jacques Savoy
• ITC-irst at CLEF 2002: Using N-best Query Translations for CLIR
  Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico
• UTACLIR @ CLEF 2002: Towards a Unified Translation Process Model
  Eija Airio, Heikki Keskustalo, Turid Hedlund, Ari Pirkola
• Merging Different Languages in a Single Document Collection
  Jian-Yun Nie, Fuman Jin
• EXETER at CLEF 2002: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual and Bilingual Retrieval
  Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones
• The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2002
  Christof Monz, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke
• Portuguese-English Experiments using Latent Semantic Indexing
  Viviane Moreira Orengo, Christian Huyck
• Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments for CLEF 2002
  Isabelle Moulinier, Hugo Molina-Salgado
• Merging Mechanisms in Multilingual Information Retrieval
  Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
• SINAI on CLEF 2002: Experimenting with Merging Strategies
  Fernando Martínez Santiago, Maite Martín, Alfonso Ureña
• Cross-language Retrieval at Twente and TNO
  Dennis Reidsma, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong, Wessel Kraaij
• Resolving Translation Ambiguity using Monolingual Corpora. A Report on Clairvoyance CLEF-2002 Experiments
  Yan Qu, Greg Grefenstette, David A. Evans
• Eurospider at CLEF 2002
  Martin Braschler, Anne Göhring, Peter Schäuble
• Scalable Multilingual Information Access
  Paul McNamee, James Mayfield
• Some Experiments with the Dutch Collection
  Arjen P. de Vries, Anne Diekema
• Italian Monolingual Information Retrieval with PROSIT
  Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
• COLE Experiments at CLEF 2002: Spanish Monolingual Track
  Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, Francisco.J. Ribadas, Manuel Vilares
• University of Padua at CLEF 2002: Experiments to Evaluate a Statistical Stemming Algorithm
  Michela Bacchin, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci
• IR-n System at Clef 2002
  Fernando Llopis, José Luis Vicedo, Antonio Ferréandez
• Term Expansion using Stemming and Thesauri in Spanish
  Ángel F. Zazo, Carlos G. Figuerola, José Luis A. Berrocal, Emilio Rodríguez
• Information Retrieval based on Explicit Knowledge Representation
  Elzbieta Dura, Marek Drejak
• PLIERS and Snowball at CLEF 2002
  Andrew MacFarlane
• MediaLab @ CLEF-2002: Comparing Search Strategies
  Dennis Reidsma, Peter van der Weerd
• Experiments in 8 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServer™ at CLEF2002
  Stephen Tomlinson
• Experiments with a Chunker and Lucene
  Gil Francopoulo
• SICS at CLEF 2002: Automatic Query Expansion using Random Indexing
  Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren, Rickard Cöster, Timo Järvinen
• IMBIT: Resources and Search Strategy
  Claudia Wortmann

Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

• CLIR at NTCIR Workshop 3
  Noriko Kando
• Linguistic and Statistical Analysis of the CLEF Topics
  Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker

Appendix

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