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Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments Gareth J.F. Jones, Ke Zhang, and Adenike M. Lam-Adesina Centre for Digital Video Processing School of Computing Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland {gjones,kzhang,adenike}@computing.dcu.ie Abstract. The Dublin City University participation in the CLEF 2006 CL-SR task concentrated on exploring the combination of the multiple fields associated with the documents. This was based on use of the ex- tended BM25F field combination model originally developed for multi- field text documents. Additionally, we again conducted runs with our existing information retrieval methods based on the Okapi model. This latter method required an approach to determining approximate sentence boundaries within the free-flowing automatic transcription provided, to enable us to use our summary-based pseudo relevance feedback (PRF). Experiments were conducted for the English document collection with topics translated into English using Systran V3.0 machine translation. 1 Introduction The Dublin City University participation in the CLEF 2006 CL-SR task concen- trated on exploring the combination of the multiple fields associated with the speech documents. It is not immediately clear how best to combine the diverse fields of this document set most effectively in ad hoc information retrieval (IR), such as the CLEF 2006 CL-SR task. Our study is based on using the docu- ment field combination extended version of BM25 termed BM25F introduced in [1]. In addition, we carried out runs using our existing IR methods based on the Okapi model with summary-based pseudo-relev