Keep It Simple Sheffielda KISS approach to the Arabic track

[摘要] Sheffield’s participation in the inaugural Arabic cross language track is described here.Our goal was toexamine how well one could achieve retrieval of Arabic text with the minimum of resources and adaptationof existing retrieval systems.To this end the public translators used for query translation and the minimalchanges to our retrieval system are described.While the effectiveness of our resulting system is not as highas one might desire, it nevertheless provides reasonable performance particularly in the monolingual track:

[学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）