CLIR at NTCIR workshop 3: Cross-language and cross-genre retrieval

Abstract

This paper introduces the NTCIR Workshops, a series of evaluation workshops that are designed to enhance research in information access technologies, such as information retrieval, text summarization, question answering, information extraction, and text mining, by providing large-scale test collections and a forum for researchers. A brief history and descriptions of tasks, participants, test collections and CLIR evaluation at the workshops, and a brief overview of the third NTCIR Workshop are given. To conclude, some thoughts on future directions are suggested. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.