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# CLEF 2001
CLEF2001 Working Notes

### Working Notes for CLEF 2001 Workshop
co-located with the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2001)

### Darmstad, Germany, September 3-4, 2001.

Edited by

### Carol Peters *
Nicola Ferro (CEUR-WS Republishing Managing Editor) **

* Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI), CNR, Pisa, Italy
** Department of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/B, 35131, Padova, Italy

## 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

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