Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Third Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2002 Rome, Italy, September 19–20, 2002 Revised Papers: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 2785

I System Evaluation Experiments at CLEF 2002.- CLEF 2002 – Overview of Results.- Cross-Language Retrieval Experiments at CLEF 2002.- ITC-irst at CLEF 2002: Using N-Best Query Translations for CLIR.- Océ at CLEF 2002.- Report on CLEF 2002 Experiments: Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence.- UTACLIR @ CLEF 2002 – Bilingual and Multilingual Runs with a Unified Process.- A Multilingual Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval.- Combining Evidence for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Exeter at CLEF 2002: Experiments with Machine Translation for Monolingual and Bilingual Retrieval.- Portuguese-English Experiments Using Latent Semantic Indexing.- Thomson Legal and Regulatory Experiments for CLEF 2002.- Eurospider at CLEF 2002.- Merging Mechanisms in Multilingual Information Retrieval.- SINAI at CLEF 2002: Experiments with Merging Strategies.- Cross-Language Retrieval at the University of Twente and TNO.- Scalable Multilingual Information Access.- Some Experiments with the Dutch Collection.- Resolving Translation Ambiguity Using Monolingual Corpora.- Experiments in 8 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2002.- Italian Monolingual Information Retrieval with PROSIT.- COLE Experiments in the CLEF 2002 Spanish Monolingual Track.- Improving the Automatic Retrieval of Text Documents.- IR-n System at CLEF-2002.- Experiments in Term Expansion Using Thesauri in Spanish.- SICS at CLEF 2002: Automatic Query Expansion Using Random Indexing.- Pliers and Snowball at CLEF 2002.- Experiments with a Chunker and Lucene.- Information Retrieval with Language Knowledge.- Domain Specific Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim.- Using Thesauri in Cross-Language Retrieval of German and French Indexed Collections.- AssessingAutomatically Extracted Bilingual Lexicons for CLIR in Vertical Domains: XRCE Participation in the GIRT Track of CLEF 2002.- The CLEF 2002 Interactive Track.- SICS at iCLEF 2002: Cross-Language Relevance Assessment and Task Context.- Universities of Alicante and Jaen at iCLEF.- Comparing User-Assisted and Automatic Query Translation.- Interactive Cross-Language Searching: Phrases Are Better than Terms for Query Formulation and Refinement.- Exploring the Effect of Query Translation when Searching Cross-Language.- CLEF 2002 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Pilot Track Report.- Exeter at CLEF 2002: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments.- Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval on the TREC SDR Collection.- II Cross-Language Systems Evaluation Initiatives, Issues and Results.- CLIR at NTCIR Workshop 3: Cross-Language and Cross-Genre Retrieval.- Linguistic and Statistical Analysis of the CLEF Topics.- CLEF 2002 Methodology and Metrics.