We describe our participation in both tasks in the 2003 TREC Genomics track. For the primary task we concentrated mainly upon query expansion and species-specific document search...
Miles Osborne, Mark Cuminskey, Gail Sinclair, Matt...
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
500,000 PubMed abstracts. However, less than 50 documents are relevant for most queries. Applying scoring to all 500,000 abstracts would create a lot of noise. In the first step, ...
Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...
The robust retrieval track is a new track in TREC 2003. The goal of the track is to improve the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. In add...