In this our first participation in TREC we have focused on the passage task of the question answering track. The main aim of our participation was to test the impact of various t...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
We describe our participation in both tasks in the 2003 TREC Genomics track. For the primary task we concentrated mainly upon query expansion and species-specific document search...
Miles Osborne, Mark Cuminskey, Gail Sinclair, Matt...
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
500,000 PubMed abstracts. However, less than 50 documents are relevant for most queries. Applying scoring to all 500,000 abstracts would create a lot of noise. In the first step, ...