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One of the main problems in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) is how to cross languages. This report describes the work done by the IRIT team in the multilingual, bilingual and monolingual tasks at Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). Our approach to CLIR is based on query translation. The queries were translated using free dictionaries and then two disambiguation strategies were compared. The first is based on aligned corpora and the second on bi-directional translation. The experiments were performed using the Mercure system [4].
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Boughanem, M., Chrisment, C., Nassr, N. (2002). Investigation on Disambiguation in CLIR: Aligned Corpus and Bi-directional Translation-Based Strategies. 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_13
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