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...
TREC 2004 marks the third and final year for the novelty track. The task is as follows: Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and nov...
In this paper, we report our experiments on the Web Track TREC-2003. We submitted five runs for the topic distillation task. Our goal was to evaluate the standard language modeli...
Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...