Studying the Use of Interactive Multilingual Information Retrieval

talk as if information retrieval systems were machines, but in reality the "systems" that we use to retrieve information are synergistic combinations of collections, machines, and processes that people use to search the collection(s) using the machine(s). Model-based evaluations such as those pioneered at Cranfield and now used in TREC, CLEF, and SIGIR focus on some functions of the machine (in particular, how best to build ranked lists). This paper expands that focus to examine what we have learned about the processes by which those machines will be used to perform Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), concluding with a brief description of how that perspective informs the nature of our research in DARPA's new GALE program.

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