The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2003

We describe the official runs of our team for the CLEF 2004 ad hoc tasks. We took part in the monolingual task (for Finnish, French, Portuguese, and Russian), in the bilingual task (for Amharic to English, and English to Portuguese), and, finally, in the multilingual task.

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