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Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF

Nadeau, David and Jarmasz, Mario and Barrière, Caroline and Foster, George and St-Jacques, Claude (2004) Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF. [Conference Paper]

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Abstract

This paper presents a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). Several custom query construction, expansion and translation strategies are compared. We present the experiments and the corresponding results for the CLEF 2004 event.

Item Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:cross-language information retrieval
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:4398
Deposited By: Nadeau, David
Deposited On:19 Jun 2005
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:56

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