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CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track

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

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This paper summarizes the Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SDR) track held at CLEF 2004. The CL-SDR task at CLEF 2004 was again based on the TREC-8 and TREC-9 SDR tasks. This year the CL-SDR task was extended to explore the unknown story boundaries condition introduced at TREC. The paper reports results from the participants showing that as expected cross-language results are reduced relative to a monolingual baseline, although the amount to which they are degraded varies for different topic languages.

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Federico, M., Bertoldi, N., Levow, GA., Jones, G.J.F. (2005). CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track. 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_79

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