Océ at CLEF 2003

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.

Some Terms are more Interchangeable than Others

This paper describes the work done by the Information Retrieval Research Group at Océ Technologies B.V., for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2001. We have participated in the Dutch Monolingual task and submitted three runs. In this paper we introduce a new method for relevance computation using two new query operators. This method is meant to be applied to Multilingual Retrieval in t...

Océ at TREC 2003

This report describes the work done at Océ Research for the TREC 2003. This first participation consists of ad hoc experiments for the Robust track. We used the BM25 model and our new probabilistic model to rank documents. Knowledge Concepts’ Content Enabler semantic network was used for stemming and query expansion. Our main goal was to compare the BM25 model and the probabilistic model implem...

Report on CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB

Using Mt in a Corporate Setting

Company introduction Océ Technologies is a manufacturer of plotters, printers, design & engineering equipment and supplies. Océ has operating companies in 30 countries and is active in 80 countries. About 17,000 people are employed worldwide; 3000 are based at the head office in Venlo, The Netherlands. Implementation of MT After prototyping an MT system at Océ R&D to demonstrate its feasibility...