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Using Various Indexing Schemes and Multiple Translations in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2005

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Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories (CLEF 2005)

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We present the participation of the University of Ottawa in the Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval task at CLEF 2005. In order to translate the queries, we combined the results of several online Machine Translation tools. For the Information Retrieval component we used the SMART system [1], with several weighting schemes for indexing the documents and the queries. One scheme in particular led to better results than other combinations. We present the results of the submitted runs and of many un-official runs. We compare the effect of several translations from each language. We present results on phonetic transcripts of the collection and queries and on the combination of text and phonetic transcripts. We also include the results when the manual summaries and keywords are indexed.

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa,  

    Diana Inkpen, Muath Alzghool & Aminul Islam

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  1. ISTI-CNR, Area di Ricerca, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  2. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Fredric C. Gey

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  4. Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences, Sierre, Switzerland

    Henning Müller

  5. Centre for Digital Video Processing & School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  6. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, 10719, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Kluck

  7. ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy

    Bernardo Magnini

  8. ISLA, University of Amsterdam,  

    Maarten de Rijke

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Inkpen, D., Alzghool, M., Islam, A. (2006). Using Various Indexing Schemes and Multiple Translations in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2005. In: Peters, C., et al. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11878773_83

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