CACAO Project at the TEL@CLEF 2009 Task

This paper presents the participation of the CACAO prototype to the TEL@CLEF 2009 task, an evaluation track focusing on multilingual document retrieval over a collection of library catalogues. CACAO (Cross-language Access to Catalogues And On-line libraries) is an EU project devoted to enabling cross-language access to the contents of a federation of digital libraries with a set of software tools for harvesting, indexing and serching over such data. CACAO project consortium participated both to the monolingual and the bilingual subtasks from TEL@CLEF since they constitute a perfect opportunity in order to test the CACAO system prototype and obtain feedbacks for its enhancement. The prototype showed good performances with respect to the other participants, resulting among the best 5 in the French Monolingual subtrack, and quite a significative enhancement in comparison with the past year participation.