TY - GEN ID - cogprints4398 UR - http://cogprints.org/4398/ A1 - Nadeau, David A1 - Jarmasz, Mario A1 - Barrière, Caroline A1 - Foster, George A1 - St-Jacques, Claude Y1 - 2004/// N2 - 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. KW - cross-language information retrieval TI - Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF SP - 73 AV - public EP - 80 ER -