This paper presents a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). Several custom query construction, expansion and translation strategies are compared. We present the experiments and the corresponding results for the CLEF 2004 event

Barrière, Caroline

Foster, George

Jarmasz, Mario

Nadeau, David

St-Jacques, Claude

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