this book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 6th workshop of the cross-language evaluation forum, clef 2005, held in vienna, austria in september 2005. the 111 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. the papers are organized in topical sections on multilingual textual document retrieval, cross-language and more, monolingual experiments, domain-specific information retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language speech retrieval, multilingual web track, cross-language geographical retrieval, and evaluation issues.