Information Filtering Evaluation: Overview of CLEF 2009 INFILE Track

International audienceThe INFILE@CLEF 2009 track is the second run of this track on the evaluation of cross-language adaptive filtering systems. It uses the same corpus as the 2008 track, composed of 300,000 newswires from Agence France Presse (AFP) in three languages: Arabic, English and French, and a set of 50 topics in general and specific domain (scientific and technological information). We proposed this year two tasks : a batch filtering task and an interactive task to test adaptive methods. Results for the two tasks are presented in the paper