PiQASso is a Question Answering system based on a combination of modern IR techniques and a series of semantic filters for selecting paragraphs containing a justifiable answer. Se...
Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Fo...
: Oracle's objective in TREC-10 was to study the behavior of Oracle information retrieval in previously unexplored application areas. The software used was Oracle9i Text[1], O...
Shamin Alpha, Paul Dixon, Ciya Liao, Changwen Yang
For TREC-10, we participated in the adhoc and manual web tracks and in both the site-finding and cross-lingual tracks. For the adhoc track, we did extensive calibrations and learn...
Mohammed Aljlayl, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jense...
: We document our participation in the TREC 2008 Legal Track. This year we focused solely on selecting rank cut-offs for optimizing the given evaluation measure per topic.
We report on the University of Lugano's participation in the Blog track of TREC 2008. In particular we describe our system for performing opinion retrieval and blog distillat...
Shima Gerani, Mostafa Keikha, Mark James Carman, R...