Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation

"This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the international Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Workshop organized by the CLEF activity of the European DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries.
The 25 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully selected based on two rounds of reviewing. All current aspects of cross-language information retrieval are addressed, ranging from foundational issues and systems evaluation to applications in a variety of fields."

Introduction
Carol Peters
PartⅠ.Evaluation for CLIR Systems
CLIR Evaluation at TERC
NTCIR Workshop:Japanese-and Chinese-English Cross-Lingual
Information Retrieval and Multi-grade Relevance Judgements
Language Resources in Cross-Language Text Retrieval:
A CLEF Perspective
The DOmain Specific Task of CLEF-SPecific Evaluation Strategies in
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Evaluating Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval:
Document Selection
New Challenges for Cross-Language Information Retrieval:
Multimedia Data and the User Experience
Research to Improve Cross-Language Retrieval-Position Paper
for CLEF
Part Ⅱ.The CIEF-2000 EXperiments
CLEF 2000-Overview of Results
Translation Resources，Merging Strategies，and Relevance Feedback for
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Cross-Language Retrieval for the CLEF Collections-COmparing Multiple
methods of Retrieval
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Appendix A-Run Statistics
Author Index