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The primary goal of our participation in CLEF is to acquire experience with supporting cross-lingual retrieval. We submitted runs for all four target languages, but our main interest has been in the bilingual Dutch to English runs. We investigated whether we can obtain a reasonable performance without expensive (but high quality) resources; we have used only ‘off-the-shelf’, freely available tools for stopping, stemming, compound-splitting (only for Dutch) and translation. Although our results are encouraging, we must conclude that a poor man’s approach should not expect to result in rich men’s retrieval results.
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de Vries, A.P. (2001). A Poor Man’s Approach to CLEF. In: Peters, C. (eds) Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation. CLEF 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44645-1_14
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