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Patapasco: A Python Framework for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Experiments

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022)

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While there are high-quality software frameworks for information retrieval experimentation, they do not explicitly support cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). To fill this gap, we have created Patapsco, a Python CLIR framework. This framework specifically addresses the complexity that comes with running experiments in multiple languages. Patapsco is designed to be extensible to many language pairs, to be scalable to large document collections, and to support reproducible experiments driven by a configuration file. We include Patapsco results on standard CLIR collections using multiple settings.

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    Patapsco is available at https://github.com/hltcoe/patapsco. A video demonstration is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYj1GAbABBc.

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    http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/permission/ntcir-8/perm-en-ACLIA.html.

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  1. Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21211, USA

    Cash Costello, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie & James Mayfield

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  1. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

    Matthias Hagen

  2. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Suzan Verberne

  3. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Craig Macdonald

  4. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Christin Seifert

  5. University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

    Krisztian Balog

  6. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Kjetil Nørvåg

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Costello, C., Yang, E., Lawrie, D., Mayfield, J. (2022). Patapasco: A Python Framework for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Experiments. In: Hagen, M., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13186. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_33

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