Cross-Language Chinese Text Retrieval in NTCIR Workshop - Towards Cross-Language Multilingual Text Retrieval

This article reports the results of Chinese Text Retrieval (CHTR) tasks in NTCIR Workshop 2 and the future plan of NTCIR workshop. CHTR tasks fall into two categories: Chinese-Chinese IR (CHIR) and English-Chinese IR (ECIR). The definitions, schedules, test collection (CIRB010), search results, evaluation, and initial analyses of search results of CHIR and ECIR are discussed in this article. The new plan of NTCIR towards multilingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) is also described