Blueprint of a Cross-Lingual Web Retrieval Collection

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Publication date 2005
Host editors
  • R. van Zwol
Book title Proceedings of the Fifth Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR'05)
Pages (from-to) 33-38
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval; web content is essentially multilingual, and web searchers are often polyglots. Even though English
has emerged as the lingua franca of the web, planning for a business trip or holiday usually involves digesting pages in a foreign language. The same holds for searching information
about European culture, sports, economy, or politics. This paper discusses the blue-print of the WebCLEF track, a new evaluation activity addressing cross-lingual web retrieval within the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum in 2005.
Document type Conference contribution
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