Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
: In TREC2004, Dublin City University took part in three tracks, Terabyte (in collaboration with University College Dublin), Genomic and Novelty. In this paper we will discuss each...
Stephen Blott, Fabrice Camous, Paul Ferguson, Geor...
This paper reports our knowledge-ignorant machine learning approach to the triage task in TREC2004 genomics track, which is actually a text categorization problem. We applied Supp...
We present a novel connectionist model for acquiring the semantics of a simple language through the behavioral experiences of a real robot. We focus on the “compositionality” ...
In TREC 2003, our experiments have been concentrated only on the topic distillation task. We first simply apply the term-based technique to the .GOV web collection, and then re-r...