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This article describes our participation at the Domain-Specific track. We used the Xtrieval framework for the preparation and execution of the experiments. The translation of the topics for the cross-lingual experiments was realized with a plug-in to access the Google AJAX language API. This year, we submitted 20 experiments in total. In all our experiments we applied a standard top-k pseudo-relevance feedback algorithm. We used merged monolingual runs as baseline for comparison to all our cross-lingual experiments. Translating the topics for the bilingual experiments decreased the retrieval effectiveness only between 8 and 15 percent.
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Kürsten, J., Wilhelm, T., Eibl, M. (2009). The Xtrieval Framework at CLEF 2008: Domain-Specific Track. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. CLEF 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_27
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