IIT TREC-9 - Entity Based Feedback with Fusion

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 a user interface designed to assist with web-based manual queries. Our initial results are positive. For the manual task, forty of fifty queries are over the median. In the adhoc, title-only task, thirty-four of fifty queries are over the median.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, M. Sailee, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder, M. Catherine McCabe, David O. Holmes
• Keywords: Fifty Queries, TREC 2000, TREC 2008, Web-based Manual Queries, Wordnet-based Query Parsing