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-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...
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...
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...
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 ...
We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...