Overview - Cross-Language 1997

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) was a new task in the TREC-6 evaluation. In contrast to the multilingual track included in previous TREC evaluations, which was concerned with information retrieval in Spanish or Chi-nese, the cross-language retrieval track focuses on the retrieval situation where the documents are written in a language which is different than the language used to specify the queries. The TREC-6 track used documents in English, French and German and queries in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch.

Track coordinator(s):

• P. Schäuble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
• P. Sheridan, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

Tasks:

• French-French: French-French
• German-German: German-German
• German-English: German-English
• German-French: German-French
• English-German: English-German
• English-English: English-English
• French-German: French-German
• French-English: French-English
• Dutch-English: Dutch-English
• Spanish-English: Spanish-English
• English-French: English-French

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