This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
This paper presents Carnegie Mellon University’s experiments on the mixed named-page and homepage finding task of the TREC 12 Web Track. Our results were strong; we achieved the...
This paper proposes an approach to the secondary task in the TREC Genomics Track. We regard the task as identification of the sentences describing gene functions (i.e., GeneRIFs)...