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TREC
2007
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Information Retrieval and Information Extraction in TREC Genomics 2007
In TREC Genomics a question/answering task has been proposed. A set of questions with a specific entity of interest is proposed and a set of passages from a collection of full te...
Antonio Jimeno-Yepes, Piotr Pezik
TREC
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Enterprise Search: Identifying Relevant Sentences and Using Them for Query Expansion
In this paper, we discuss the experiments conducted in context of Document Search task of 2007 Enterprise Search track. Our method is based on selecting sentences from the given r...
Maheedhar Kolla, Olga Vechtomova
TREC
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Query Expansion Seen Through Return Order of Relevant Documents
There is a reservoir of knowledge in data from the TREC evaluations that analysis of precision and recall leaves untapped. This knowledge leads to better understanding of query ex...
Walter Liggett, Chris Buckley
TREC
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Question Answering, Relevance Feedback and Summarisation: TREC-9 Interactive Track Report
In this paper we report on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a question-answering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents...
Neill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon M. Jose, Ian ...
TREC
2003
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Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD Tasks
In our entry to the new HARD track, we have investigated two methods of interactively refining user search formulations. One method consists of asking the user to select a number ...
Olga Vechtomova, Eric Lam, Murat Karamuftuoglu
TREC
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2003: Robust and Web Track
Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Can We Get A Better Retrieval Function From Machine?
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox, Li Wang
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Domain-Specific Synonym Expansion and Validation for Biomedical Information Retrieval (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2004)
In the domain of biomedical publications, synonyms and homonyms are omnipresent and pose a great challenge for document retrieval systems. For this year's TREC Genomics Ad ho...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon...
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2004
Our participation in TREC 2004 aims to extend and improve the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) for the robust track. We experiment with...
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
IC
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Concept Based Query Enhancement in the ARCH Search Agent
The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...