This year we participated in the Novelty track. To find the relevant sentences, we combine sentence salience features that are inherited from text summarization domain with other ...
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) participated in TREC-2004, submitting 18 runs. We focus on studying the problem of the combination of the user- and quer...
In this paper, we describe ideas and related experiments of Tsinghua University IR group in TREC 2004 QA track. In this track, our system consists three components: Question analy...
This paper describes the work we have been done in the last year on the DIOGENE Question Answering system developed at ITC-Irst. We present two preliminary experiments showing the...
This paper reports on work done for the Genomics Track at TREC 2004 by ConverSpeech LLC in conjunction with scientists at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), the model organi...
Colleen E. Crangle, Alex Zbyslaw, J. Michael Cherr...
This is the first year that the Dalhousie University participated in TREC. We submitted three runs for the QA track. Our evaluation results are generally below the median (with on...
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
We describe our system developed at ISI for the Novelty track at TREC 2004. The system's two modules recognize relevant event and opinion sentences respectively. We focused m...
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...