MATERIALizing Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Snapshot

Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech (CLSSTS2020)

Abstract

At about the midpoint of the IARPA MATERIAL program in October 2019, an evaluation was conducted on systems’ abilities to find Lithuanian documents based on English queries. Subsequently, both the Lithuanian test collection and results from all three teams were made available for detailed analysis. This paper capitalizes on that opportunity to begin to look at what’s working well at this stage of the program, and to identify some promising directions for future work.