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Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems (CLEF 2001)

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In our first participation in clef retrieval tasks, the primary objective was to define a general stopword list for various European languages (namely, French, Italian, German and Spanish) and also to suggest simple and efficient stemming procedures for these languages. Our second aim was to suggest a combined approach that could facilitate effective access to multilingual collections.

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  1. Institut interfacultaire d’informatique, Université de Neuchâtel, Pierre-à-Mazel 7, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Jacques Savoy

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  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  2. Eurospider Information Technology AG, Schaffhauserstrasse 18, 8006, Zürich, Switzerland

    Martin Braschler

  3. E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo

  4. Informations Zentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Lennestr. 30, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Michael Kluck

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Savoy, J. (2002). Report on CLEF-2001 Experiments: Effective Combined Query-Translation Approach. In: Peters, C., Braschler, M., Gonzalo, J., Kluck, M. (eds) Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems. CLEF 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45691-0_3

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