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iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Pilot Experiments in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering

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Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images (CLEF 2004)

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For the 2004 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) interactive track (iCLEF), five participating teams used a common evaluation design to assess the ability of interactive systems of their own design to support the task of finding specific answers to narrowly focused questions in a collection of documents written in a language different from the language in which the questions were expressed. This task is an interactive counterpart to the fully automatic cross-language question answering task at CLEF 2003 and 2004. This paper describes the iCLEF 2004 evaluation design, outlines the experiments conducted by the participating teams, and presents some initial results from analyses of official evaluation measures that were reported to each participating team.

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Gonzalo, J., Oard, D.W. (2005). iCLEF 2004 Track Overview: Pilot Experiments in Interactive Cross-Language Question Answering. 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_32

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