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TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Dublin City University Experiments in Connectivity Analysis for TREC-9
Dublin City University (DCU) took part in the Web Track (small task) in TREC-9. Our experiments were based on evaluating a number of connectivity analysis algorithms that we hoped...
Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
A Semantic Approach to Question Answering Systems
This paper describes the architecture, operation and results obtained with the Question Answering prototype developed in the Department of Language Processing and Information Syst...
José Luis Vicedo González, Antonio F...
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
The LIMSI SDR System for TREC-9
In this paper we describe the LIMSI Spoken Document Retrieval system used in the TREC-9 evaluation. This system combines an adapted version of the LIMSI 1999 Hub-4E transcription ...
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Claude Barras, Gille...
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
TREC-9 CLIR Experiments at MSRCN
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) track. Our work involved two aspects: finding good methods for Chinese IR, and findin...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun...
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Reflections on "Aboutness" TREC-9 Evaluation Experiments at Justsystem
TREC-9 evaluation experiments at the Justsystem site are described with a focus on "aboutness" based approach in text retrieval. Experiments on the effects of supplement...
Sumio Fujita
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-9 Question Answering Track
This paper describes a question answering system that automatically finds answers to questions in a large collection of documents. The prototype CNLP question answering system was...
Anne Diekema, Xiaoyong Liu, Jiangping Chen, Hudong...
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
IIT TREC-9 - Entity Based Feedback with Fusion
For TREC-9, we focused on effectiveness in the web track. The key techniques we employed were information fusion, entity-based relevance feedback, Wordnet-based query parsing and ...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen...
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
English-Chinese Cross-Language IR Using Bilingual Dictionaries
This report describes the English-Chinese crosslanguage retrieval experiments at Berkeley for TREC-9 Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. We present a simple and effective ...
Aitao Chen, Hailing Jiang, Fredric C. Gey
TREC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Another Sys Called Qanda
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Warren R. ...