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We take advantage of possibility theory to overcome the problems of query disambiguation and expansion in an uncertain and imprecise IR\/CLIR context. We investigate the impact of combining possibilistic query disambiguation with expansion on IR\/CLIR efficiency. A co-occurrence graph representation is exploited to quantify the similarity between query terms and their semantically close words (expansion task) or between query terms and their possible meanings (disambiguation task). We extend the possibilistic mono-language query disambiguation approach to a cross-language framework. We conduct a set of experiments using ROMANSEVAL data collection, the French\u2013English parallel text corpus Europarl and the CLEF-2003 French\u2013English IR\/CLIR test collection. 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