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In the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Track we addressed the problem of retrieving information in morphologically rich languages, by experimenting with language-specific morphosyntactic processing and light Natural Language Processing (NLP). The diversity of the languages processed, namely Bulgarian, French, Italian, English, and Greek, allowed us to measure the effect of system-specific features upon the retrieval of these languages, and to juxtapose that effect to the role of language resources in Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) in general.
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Lioma, C., Macdonald, C., He, B., Plachouras, V., Ounis, I. (2006). Applying Light Natural Language Processing to Ad-Hoc Cross Language Information Retrieval. In: Peters, C., et al. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11878773_19
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