Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems: 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, Revised Selected PapersAuthor: Carol Peters, Julio Gonzalo, Martin Braschler, Michael Kluck Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-24017-4 DOI: 10.1007/b102261Table of Contents:Introduction CLEF 2003 Methodology and Metrics Analysis of the Reliability of the Multilingual Topic Set for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at the NTCIR Workshop CLEF 2003 – Overview of Results Report on CLEF-2003 Multilingual Tracks The Impact of Word Normalization Methods and Merging Strategies on Multilingual IR JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-word Translation Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval Cross-Language Experiments with the IR-n System Multilingual Information Retrieval Using Open, Transparent Resources in CLEF 2003 ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual, and Multilingual Information Retrieval Language-Dependent and Language-Independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval Multilingual Retrieval Experiments with MIMOR at the University of Hildesheim Concept-Based Searching and Merging for Multilingual Information Retrieval: First Experiments at CLEF 2003 CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB: Automatically Generated Phrases and Relevance Feedback for Improving CLIR SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging Merging Results by Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: A Baseline for Future Research, Includes bibliographical references and index