Title: Cross-Language Retrieval for the CLEF Collections — Comparing Multiple Methods of Retrieval
Abstract: For our participation in CLEF, the Berkeley group participated in the monolingual, multilingual and GIRT tasks. To help enrich the CLEF relevance set for future training, we prepared a manual reformulation of the original German queries which achieved excellent performance, more than 110% better than average of median precision. The GIRT task performed English-German Cross-Language IR by comparing commercial machine translation with thesaurus lookup techniques and query expansion techniques. Combining all techniques using simple data fusion produced the best results.