Cross Language Track
Task: ad hoc search for documents written in a variety of languages using topics in one language
- evaluation: R-P curves; mean average prec
- documents:
- news articles from the same time period
- French, German, & Italian from Swiss newswire SDA
- German Swiss newspaper Neue Z�rcher Zeitung
- English articles from Associated Press newswire
- approximately 700,000 documents
- 243,000 English 142,000 French
- 252,000 German 62,000 Italian