Overview - Cross-Language 1998

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This year, the TREC cross-language retrieval track took place for the second time. In TREC-7, we extended the task presented to the participants. The goal was for groups to use queries written in a single language in order to retrieve documents from a multilingual pool of documents written in many different languages. This is also a more comprehensive task than the usual definition of cross-language information retrieval, where systems work with a language pair, retrieving documents in a language L1 using queries in language L2.

Track coordinator(s):

• M. Braschler, Eurospider Information Technology
• J. Krause, Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften
• C. Peters, Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione (IEI-CNR)
• P. Schäuble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

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