Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) participated in TREC-2004, submitting 18 runs. We focus on studying the problem of the combination of the user- and quer...
Our participation in TREC 2004 aims to extend and improve the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) for the robust track. We experiment with...
This year we participated in the Novelty track. To find the relevant sentences, we combine sentence salience features that are inherited from text summarization domain with other ...
For the TREC 2004 Novelty track, UMass participated in all four tasks. Although finding relevant sentences was harder this year than last, we continue to show marked improvements ...
Nasreen Abdul Jaleel, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft,...