Short Queries, Natural Language and Spoken Document Retrieval: Experiments at Glasgow University

This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were also made to NLP track and to the SDR speech `pre-track'. Results from our submissions reveal that some of our approaches have performed poorly (i.e. ad hoc and NLP track), but we have also had success particularly in the speech track through use of transcript merging. We also highlight and discuss a seemingly unusual result where retrieval based on the very short versions of the TREC ad hoc queries produced better retrieval eectiveness than retrieval based on more `normal' length queries.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson, Marcos Theophylactou, Mounia Lalmas
• Keywords: Ad Hoc, Ad Hoc Task, NLP Track, TREC 1997, TREC 2008