In TREC 2003, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participate in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval ta...
In this our first participation in TREC we have focused on the passage task of the question answering track. The main aim of our participation was to test the impact of various t...
This paper describes the application of the two-step RSV and mixed two-step RSV merging methods over 8 and 4 multilingual tasks in CLEF 2003. We study their performance compared t...