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...
The novelty track was first introduced in TREC 2002. Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that should be retur...
This year at TREC 2003 we participated in the robust track and investigated the use of very simple retrieval rules based on convex combinations of similarity measures based on fi...