Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus

Djoerd Hiemstra; David van Leeuwen

doi:10.1163/9789004334038_012

Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus

Djoerd Hiemstra, David van Leeuwen

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This paper describes the first large-scale evaluation of information retrieval systems using Dutch documents and queries. We describe in detail the characteristics of the Dutch test data, which is part of the official CLEF multilingual test corpus, and give an overview of the experimental results of companies and research institutions that participated in the first official Dutch CLEF experiments. Judging from these experiments, the handling of languagespecific issues of Dutch, like for instance simple morphology and compound nouns, significantly improves the performance of information retrieval systems in many cases. Careful examination of the test collection shows that it serves as a reliable tool for the evaluation of information retrieval systems in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001
Subtitle of host publication	Selected Papers from the Twelfth CLIN Meeting
Editors	Mariët Theune, Anton Nijholt, Hendri Hondorp
Place of Publication	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Publisher	Rodopi
Pages	133-147
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-33403-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004334038_012
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	12th Meeting on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, CLIN 2001 - University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Duration: 30 Nov 2001 → 30 Nov 2001 Conference number: 12

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Name	Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics
Publisher	Rodopi
Volume	45

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Conference	12th Meeting on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, CLIN 2001
Abbreviated title	CLIN
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Enschede
Period	30/11/01 → 30/11/01
Other	30 Nov 2001

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DB-IR: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

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Hiemstra, D., & van Leeuwen, D. (2002). Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus. In M. Theune, A. Nijholt, & H. Hondorp (Eds.), Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001: Selected Papers from the Twelfth CLIN Meeting (pp. 133-147). (Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics; Vol. 45). Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004334038_012

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Hiemstra, D & van Leeuwen, D 2002, Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus. in M Theune, A Nijholt & H Hondorp (eds), Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001: Selected Papers from the Twelfth CLIN Meeting. Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics, vol. 45, Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 133-147, 12th Meeting on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, CLIN 2001, Enschede, Netherlands, 30/11/01. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004334038_012

Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus. / Hiemstra, Djoerd; van Leeuwen, David.
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001: Selected Papers from the Twelfth CLIN Meeting. ed. / Mariët Theune; Anton Nijholt; Hendri Hondorp. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi, 2002. p. 133-147 (Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics; Vol. 45).

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