--- 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.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: '15-17 September, 2005' conference: Cross Language Evaluation Forum confloc: 'Bath, UK' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Nadeau given: David honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Jarmasz given: Mario honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Barrière given: Caroline honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Foster given: George honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: St-Jacques given: Claude honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2004 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-06-19 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/43/98 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4398 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4398/1/NRC%2D48082.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: cross-language information retrieval lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:05 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 73-80 pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Brown, P. F., Della Pietra, S. A., Della Pietra, V. J., and Mercer, R. L. (1993). The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation. Computational Linguistics, 19(2):263-311. Buckley, C. and Salton, G. (1995), Optimization of relevance feedback weights, Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, 351-357. Chen, A. (2002), Cross-Language Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2002, CLEF 2002, Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Cöster, R., Sahlgren, M. and Karlgren, J. (2003), Selective compound splitting of Swedish queries for Boolean combinations of truncated terms, CLEF 2003, Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. Craswell, N., Hawking, D., Wilkinson R. and Wu M. (2003), Overview of the TREC 2003 Web Track, The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference, TREC-2003, Washington, D. C. Jarmasz, M. and Barrière, C. (2004), A Terminological Resource and a Terabyte-Sized Corpus for Automatic Keyphrase in Context Translation, Technical Report, National Research Council of Canada. Klir, G. J. and Yuan B. (1995), Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ. Lam-Adesina, A.M., Jones, G.J.H. (2002), Exeter at CLEF 2001: Experiments with Machine Translation for bilingual retrieval, CLEF 2001, LNCS 2406, Peters, C., Braschler, M., Gonzalo, J. and Kluck, M. (Eds.), Springer, Germany. Miyamoto, S. (1990). Fuzzy Sets in Information Retrieval and Cluster Analysis. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Porter, M. F. (1980). An Algorithm for Suffix Stripping. Program, 14(3): 130-127. Salton, G. and Buckley, C. (1988), Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval, Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, 24 (5): 513-523 Terra, E. and Clarke, C.L.A.. (2003), Frequency estimates for statistical word similarity measures. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and North American Chapter of Association of Computational Linguistics Conference 2003 (HLT/NAACL 2003), Edmonton, Canada, 244 – 251. Turney, P.D. (2000), Learning Algorithms for Keyphrase Extraction, Information Retrieval, 2(4): 303-336. Verlinde, S., Selva, T. & GRELEP (Groupe de Recherche en Lexicographie Pédagogique) (2003). Dafles relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:59:28 subjects: - comp-sci-art-intel succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF type: confpaper userid: 5664 volume: ~