In the experiment described in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a document-independent technique for eliciting additional information from searchers about their inf...
The text-mining system we are building deals with the specific problem of identifying the instances of relevant concepts present in the texts. Therefore, our system relies on inte...
The hypothesis we explored for the Ad Hoc task of the Genomics track for TREC 2004 was that phrase-level queries would increase precision over a baseline of token-level terms. We ...
Our participation in TREC 2004 aims to extend and improve the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) for the robust track. We experiment with...
Our system for the Novelty Track at TREC 2004 looks beyond sentence boundaries as well as within sentences to identify novel, nonduplicative passages. It tries to identify text sp...
While participating in the HARD track our first question was, what an IR-application should look like that takes into account preference meta-data from the user, without the need ...
We provide a description of the QACTIS question-answering system and its application to and performance in the 2004 TREC question-answering evaluation. Since this was also QACTIS&...
Patrick Schone, T. Bassi, A. Kulman, Gary M. Ciany...