Cross Language Retrieval with the Twenty-One system
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The EU project Twenty One will support cross lan guage queries in a multilingual document base A prototype version of the Twenty One system has been subjected to the Cross Language track tests in order to set baseline performances The runs were based on query translation using dictionaries and corpus based disambiguation methods
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