This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
In this paper, we report our experiments on the Web Track TREC-2003. We submitted five runs for the topic distillation task. Our goal was to evaluate the standard language modeli...
In this paper, we report our experiments on the HARD (High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents) Track in TREC 2003. We focus on active feedback, i.e., how to intelligently propose q...
This paper describes our first large-scale retrieval attempt in TREC-7 using DSIR. DSIR is a vector space based retrieval system in which semantic similarity between words, docume...
For TREC-9, we focused on effectiveness in the web track. The key techniques we employed were information fusion, entity-based relevance feedback, Wordnet-based query parsing and ...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen...