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Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum

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Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems (CLEF 2003)

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The reliability of the topics within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) needs to be validated constantly to justify the efforts for experiments within CLEF and to demonstrate the reliability of the results as far as possible. The analysis presented in this paper is concerned with several aspects. Continuing and expanding a study from 2002, we investigate the difficulty of topics and the correlation between the retrieval quality for topics and the occurrence of proper names.

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Mandl, T., Womser-Hacker, C. (2004). Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum. In: Peters, C., Gonzalo, J., Braschler, M., Kluck, M. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. CLEF 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_3

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