Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems - Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 3-4, 2001. Revised Papers (Paperback, 2002 ed.)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001, held in Darmstadt, Germany in September 2001.The 35 revised full papers presented together with two introductory survey articles and a comprehensive appendix were carefully improved during the round of reviewing and selections. The papers are organized in topical sections on systems evaluation experiments, mainly cross-language, monolingual experiments, interactive issues, and evaluation issues and results.