Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
This is the first year that the Dalhousie University participated in TREC. We submitted three runs for the QA track. Our evaluation results are generally below the median (with on...
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...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...