Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview.
Peter Scháuble, Páraic Sheridan · 1998
Introduction Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) was a new task in the TREC-6 evaluation. In contrast to the multilingual track included in previous TREC evaluations, which was concerned with information retrieval in Spanish or Chinese, the cross-language retrieval track focuses on the retrieval situation where the documents are written in a language which is different than the language used to specify the queries. The TREC-6 track used documents in English, French and German and queries in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. There are many applications or scenarios in which a user of a retrieval system may be interested in finding information written in a language other than the user's native or preferred language. In some applications, a user may want to discover all possible relevant information in a multilingual textbase, irrespective of the language of the relevant information. This may be the case when searc