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...
Our system for the Novelty Track at TREC 2004 looks beyond sentence boundaries as well as within sentences to identify novel, nonduplicative passages. It tries to identify text sp...
While participating in the HARD track our first question was, what an IR-application should look like that takes into account preference meta-data from the user, without the need ...
We provide a description of the QACTIS question-answering system and its application to and performance in the 2004 TREC question-answering evaluation. Since this was also QACTIS&...
Patrick Schone, T. Bassi, A. Kulman, Gary M. Ciany...
Gene Ontology (GO) is a controlled vocabulary. Given a gene product, GO enables scientists to clearly and unambiguously describe specific molecular functions of the gene product, ...
This paper reports about experiments carried out in the context of the genomics track at TREC 2004. Experiments were concentrated on two subtasks: the ad hoc retrieval task and th...
Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Raaijmakers, Marc Weeber, R...
In TREC 2004, IRIT modified important features of the strategy that was developed for TREC 2003. Changes include tuning parameter values, topic expansion and exploitation of sente...