Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Abstract: In our participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering (QA) track, we focused on three tasks. First, we processed the new blog corpus and converted it to formats which ...
Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khal...
Exegy’s submission for the TREC 2007 million query track consisted of results obtained by running the queries against the raw data, i.e., the data was not indexed. The hardwarea...
Four baseline experiments using standard Indri retrieval facilities and simple query formulation techniques and two experiments using more advanced formulations (dependence models...
This paper describes our participation in the opinion retrieval task at Blog Track 07. The system consisted of the preprocess part, the topic retrieval part and sentiment analysis...
We participate in all the sub tracks of the Blog track 2007. For the Opinionated Task, we use an excerpt list of the SentiWordNet to determine the opinionated nature of returned b...
This report describes Dartmouth College’s approach and results for the 2007 TREC Legal Track. Our original plan was to use the Combination of Expert Opinion (CEO) algorithm [1],...
This workshop report discusses the collaborative work of UT, EMC and TNO on the TREC Genomics Track 2007. The biomedical information retrieval task is approached using cross langu...
Martijn J. Schuemie, Dolf Trieschnigg, Wessel Kraa...