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The study of cross-lingual Information Retrieval Systems (IRSs) and a deep analysis of system performances should provide guidelines, hints, and directions to drive the design and development of the next generation MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) systems. In addition, effective tools for interpreting and comparing the experimental results should be made easily available to the research community. To this end, we propose a twofold methodology for the evaluation of Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems: statistical analyses to provide MLIA researchers with quantitative and more sophisticated analysis techniques; and graphical tools to allow for a more qualitative comparison and an easier presentation of the results. We provide concrete examples about how the proposed methodology can be applied by studying the monolingual and bilingual tasks of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2005 and 2006 campaigns.
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Crivellari, F., Di Nunzio, G.M., Ferro, N. (2007). How to Compare Bilingual to Monolingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In: Amati, G., Carpineto, C., Romano, G. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_48
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