Cross Language Track
- topics:
- 25 TREC topic statements in English created by bilingual assessors at LDC
- used standard NIST topic creation process
- most assessors’ native language was Arabic
- translated topics into Arabic & French
- assessor who created topic did Arabic translation
- native French speaker created French version
- translations were to express same information need as a native speaker of the target language would express it
- all translations vetted by participants