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This paper reports the work of Middlesex University in the CLEF bilingual task. We have carried out experiments using Portuguese queries to retrieve documents in English. The approach used was Latent Semantic Indexing, which is an automatic method not requiring dictionaries or thesauri. We have also run a monolingual version of the system to work as a baseline. Here we describe in detail the methods used and give an analysis of the results obtained.
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Orengo, V.M., Huyck, C. (2003). Portuguese-English Experiments Using Latent Semantic Indexing. In: Peters, C., Braschler, M., Gonzalo, J., Kluck, M. (eds) Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. CLEF 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45237-9_11
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