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CLEF 2004: Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images pp 253–259Cite as

The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier

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This paper describes our participation in the CLEF 2004 French monolingual task. We used our Information Retrieval platform, Terrier, and experimented with query expansion and query length normalisation.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom

    Christina Lioma, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras & Iadh Ounis

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  1. ISTI-CNR, Area di Ricerca, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  2. Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Paul Clough

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    Julio Gonzalo

  4. Centre for Digital Video Processing & School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  5. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, P.O. Box, 10719, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Kluck

  6. ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy

    Bernardo Magnini

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Lioma, C., He, B., Plachouras, V., Ounis, I. (2005). The University of Glasgow at CLEF 2004: French Monolingual Information Retrieval with Terrier. In: Peters, C., Clough, P., Gonzalo, J., Jones, G.J.F., Kluck, M., Magnini, B. (eds) Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images. CLEF 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11519645_26

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