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The CLEF Monolingual Grid of Points

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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF 2016)

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Abstract

In this paper we run a systematic series of experiments for creating a grid of points where many combinations of retrieval methods and components adopted by MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) systems are represented. This grid of points has the goal to provide insights about the effectiveness of the different components and their interaction and to identify suitable baselines with respect to which all the comparisons can be made.

We publicly release a large grid of points comprising more than 4 K runs obtained by testing 160 IR systems combining different stop lists, stemmers, n-grams components and retrieval models on CLEF monolingual tasks for nine European languages. Furthermore, we evaluate such grid of points by employing four different effectiveness measures and provide some insights about the quality of the created grid of points and the behaviour of the different systems.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro & Gianmaria Silvello

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  1. Universität Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

    Norbert Fuhr

  2. Universidade de Évora , Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  3. University of Évora , Évora, Portugal

    Teresa Gonçalves

  4. Aalborg University Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark

    Birger Larsen

  5. University of Stavanger , Stavanger, Norway

    Krisztian Balog

  6. University of Glasgow , Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Craig Macdonald

  7. University of Padua , Padua, Italy

    Linda Cappellato

  8. University of Padua , Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

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Ferro, N., Silvello, G. (2016). The CLEF Monolingual Grid of Points. In: Fuhr, N., et al. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9822. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44564-9_2

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