%A David Nadeau %A Mario Jarmasz %A Caroline Barri?re %A George Foster %A Claude St-Jacques %T Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF %X 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. %D 2004 %K cross-language information retrieval %P 73-80 %L cogprints4398