The HARD track of TREC 2004 aims to improve the accuracy of information retrieval through the use of three techniques: (1) query metadata that better describes the information nee...
For the TREC 2004 Novelty track, UMass participated in all four tasks. Although finding relevant sentences was harder this year than last, we continue to show marked improvements ...
Nasreen Abdul Jaleel, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft,...
York University participated in HARD and Genomics tracks this year. For both tracks, we used Okapi BSS (basic search system) as the basis. Our experiments mainly focused on exploi...
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Ming Zhong, Miao Wen
In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...