CACAO Project at the TEL@CLEF 2008 Task

The paper describes the participation of the CACAO project consortium to the TEL@CLEF 2008 task targeted at retrieving relevant items from collections of library catalogues. CACAO proposes the development of an infrastructure for multilingual access to digital content, including an information retrieval system able to search for books and texts in all the available languages. For each monolingual and bilingual subtask two different experiments have been conducted, one involving additional query expansion and one not. Results evidenced a poor initial performance of the system, however since the project started few months ago they can constitute a valuable baseline in order to measure the future advancement of the system. ACM Categories: H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval, H.3.7 Digital Libraries