At present, numbers of tracks and workshops have been introduced to support the research in cross-lingual IR area. Cross-language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is being promoting research in multilingual system development since 2000 and deals mainly with European languages. The NTCIR (NII Test Collection for IR System) workshop designed to enhance researches mainly in Japanese and other Asian languages. Cross-language retrieval track was offered at Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) only up to the year 2000 but it is still being studied in both CLEF and NTCIR.