Experiments with the Eurospider Retrieval System for CLEF 2000

Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2001

Martín Braschler, Peter Scháuble

DOI10.1007/3-540-44645-1_13

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The goal of these experiments was to investigate query translation using different methods, as well as document translation, and a main focus was the use of so-called similarity thesauri for query translation.

Abstract

The experiment setup that was used for Eurospider's CLEF participation is described and a preliminary analysis of the results that were obtained is given. Three runs each were submitted for the multilingual and monolingual tasks. The goal of these experiments was to investigate query translation using different methods, as well as document translation. A main focus was the use of so-called similarity thesauri for query translation. This approach produced promising results, and shows potential for future adaptations.

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