Abstract
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list and a light stemming procedure for the Portuguese language. Our second objective was to obtain a better picture of the relative merit of various search engines when processing documents in the Finnish and Russian languages. Finally, based on the Z-score method we suggested a data fusion strategy intended to improve monolingual searches in various European languages.
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Savoy, J. (2005). Data Fusion for Effective European Monolingual Information Retrieval. In: Peters, C., Clough, P., Gonzalo, J., Jones, G.J.F., Kluck, M., Magnini, B. (eds) Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images. CLEF 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11519645_24
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