We present a report on our particiation in the English-Dutch bilingual task of the 2001 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We attempted to demostrate that good cross language query translation results can be obtained by combining dictionary based and parellel corpus based approaches. A parallel corpus based techniques producces the best query translation as compared to a pure parallel corpus based and the combined techniques. We also that improvement in retrieval effectiveness can be obtained using query expansion technique