creators_name: Nadeau, David
creators_name: Jarmasz, Mario
creators_name: Barrière, Caroline
creators_name: Foster, George
creators_name: St-Jacques, Claude
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-06-19
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:05
metadata_visibility: show
title: Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
full_text_status: public
keywords: cross-language information retrieval
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.
date: 2004
date_type: published
pagerange: 73-80
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   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]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4398/1/NRC-48082.pdf