This paper presents our system and results for the Feed Distillation task in the Blog track at TREC 2007. Our experiments focus on two dimensions of the task: (1) a large-document...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
In TREC 2007, we participate in four tasks of the Blog and Enterprise tracks. We continue experiments using Terrier1 [14], our modular and scalable Information Retrieval (IR) plat...
David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Jie Peng, Ben He, I...
: We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam's ILPS group in the blog track at TREC 2008. We mainly explored different ways of using external corpora to expa...
This paper reports on Lymba Corporation’s (a spinoff of Language Computer Corporation) participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering track. An overview of the PowerAnswer 4 ...
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...