Evaluation forums

Evaluation Forums on http://www.clef-campaign.org/

CLEF	Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
TREC	Text Retrieval Conference
NTCIR	NII-NACSIS Test Collection for IR Systems
INEX	INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval
FIRE	Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation

Research Programmes

ELSNET	European Network of Excellence in Human Languages Technologies
TIDES	Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization (DARPA)

Resources

ELRA/ELDA	Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Association
LDC	Linguistic Data Consortium
ODS	United Nations Official Documents Online - consists of 800,000 searchable parallel documents in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish, primarily in PDF and / or MS Word format.  Resource Shelf  summarizes the main features and other UN resources.
Prise	Free retrieval system from NIST, complete with (simplistic) German and French stemmers
SDA data German/French/Italian 1988-90 Please consult the README.txtfile.	Training collection used for the TREC6-8 CLIR tracks (password-protected. Please consult the CLEF administration.)
Web of Online-Dictionaries	online dictionaries for 100s of languages
Altavista Babelfish	(Systran-powered) online machine translation from Altavista
Google	On-line translation tools
FreeTranslation	On-line translation tools
InterTran	On-line translation tools
Reverso Online	On-line translation tools

Selected References on Evaluation 
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