NRC-IIT's ILT Group at the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This technical report is an extended version of the article “Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF” (Nadeau et al., 2004) published in the proceedings of CLEF 2004. It presents Sbire, a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). The development of Sbire was motivated by a participation in the CLEF evaluation. For this reason, some development presented in this report cannot be applied to a real-word crosslanguage information retrieval. For instance, we present how to build a query from a textual topic and this “query construction” step is done by the user in a real-world IR system. The report emphasizes on our experiments in the CLEF environment as well as on the final Sbire architecture. It is mainly intended for developers of cross-lingual information retrieval system that aspire to participate in CLEF or similar events.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".