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TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
University of North Carolina's HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004
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...
Diane Kelly, Vijay Deepak Dollu, Xin Fu
TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
TREC 2004 HARD Track Experiments in Clustering
David A. Evans, Jeffrey Bennett, Jesse Montgomery,...
TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
From the Texts to the Contexts They Contain: A Chain of Linguistic Treatments
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...
Ahmed Amrani, Jérôme Azé, Thom...
TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
Phrasal Queries with LingPipe and Lucene: Ad Hoc Genomics Text Retrieval
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 ...
Bob Carpenter
TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2004
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...
Gianni Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano
TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
Columbia University in the Novelty Track at TREC 2004
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...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown
TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
Conceptual Language Models for Context-Aware Text Retrieval
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 ...
Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
TREC
2004
14 years 27 days ago
Question Answering with QACTIS at TREC 2004
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...