Anatomy at EB 2002

Eurospider at CLEF 2002

For the CLEF 2002 campaign, Eurospider participated in the multilingual and German monolingual tasks. Our main focus was on trying new merging strategies for our multilingual experiments. In this paper, we describe the setup of our system, the characteristics of our experiments, and give a first analysis of some of the results.

Océ at CLEF 2002

This report describes the work done by the Information Retrieval Group at Océ Technologies B.V., for the 2002 edition of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We have participated in the mono, cross and multilingual tasks, using BM25 for ranking, Ergane, Logos and BabelFish for translations and the Knowledge Concepts semantic network for stemming and morphological expansion.

CWI at INEX 2002

This paper describes our participation in INEX 2002 (the XML Retrieval Initiative) and discusses several aspects of our XML retrieval system: the retrieval model, the document indexing and manipulation scheme and our preliminary evaluation results of the submitted three runs. In our system, we have used a probabilistic retrieval model where we map (structural) properties of documents to dimensi...

Pliers at Trec 2002

We report on our experiments for the TREC 2002 web track for both the topic distillation and named page tasks. We use a very simple method for both tasks which takes the first hit page in the top 10 for a give web site and discards any further pages from that web site (section 2 describes our research aims and objectives in more detail). We also describe indexing results (section 3), give a des...

Electronic Government at the American Grassroots - 2002