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This paper summarizes the participation of the UNED group in the CLEF 2002 Interactive Track. We focused on interactive query formulation and refinement, comparing two approaches: a) a reference system that assists the user to provide adequate translations for terms in the query; and b) a proposed system that assists the user to formulate the query as a set of relevant phrases, and to select promising phrases in the documents to enhance the query. All collected evidence indicates that the phrase-based approach is preferable: the official Fα=0.8 measure is 65% better for the proposed system, and all users in our experiment preferred the phrase-based system as a simpler and faster way of searching.
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López-Ostenero, F., Gonzalo, J., Peñas, A., Verdejo, F. (2003). Interactive Cross-Language Searching: Phrases Are Better than Terms for Query Formulation and Refinement. In: Peters, C., Braschler, M., Gonzalo, J., Kluck, M. (eds) Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. CLEF 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45237-9_37
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