The TREC Question Answering Track presented several distinct challenges to participants in 2007. Participants were asked to create a system which discovers the answers to factoid ...
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University, on the TREC7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track. The broadcast news audio was transcribed using a 2-pass gender-dependent...
Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, G. L. Moore, Karen Spa...
In this paper we describe the LIMSI Spoken Document Retrieval system used in the TREC-9 evaluation. This system combines an adapted version of the LIMSI 1999 Hub-4E transcription ...
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Claude Barras, Gille...
Lucene is an increasingly popular open source search library. However, our experiments of search quality for TREC data and evaluations for out-of-the-box Lucene indicated inferior...
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...