Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) TREC 2003 Proceedings

NIST Special Publication: SP 500-255 The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2003)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ABSTRACT PAPERS alphabetically, by organization alphabetically, by track Proceedings Papers Overview of TREC 2003, page 1 E. M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TREC GENOMICS Track Overview, page 14 W. Hersh, R.T. Bhupatiraju, Oregon Health and Science University HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003 High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents, page 24 J. Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track, page 38 I. Soboroff, D. Harman, NIST Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track, page 54 E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Overview of the TREC 2003 Robust Retrieval Track, page 69 E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Overview of the TREC 2003 Web Track, page 78 N. Craswell, D. Hawking, CSIRO ICT Centre Recognizing Gene and Protein Function in MEDLINE Abstracts, page 93 R.D. Hull, L.F. Waldman, Axontologic, Inc. TREC 2003 QA at BBN: Answering Definitional Questions, page 98 J. Xu, A. Licuanan, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies REGEN: Retrieval and Extraction of Genomics Data, page 107 R. Guillen, T. Ferdous, California State University San Marcos TREC12 HARD Track at ISCAS, page 117 Z. Wu, L. Du, L. Sun, S. Ye, Chinese Academy of Science NLPR at TREC 2003: Novelty and Robust, page 126 Q. Jin, J. Zhao, B. Xu, Chinese Academy of Science TREC 2003 Novelty and Web Track at ICT, page 138 J. Sun, Z. Yang, W. Pan, H. Zhang, B. Wang, X. Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences TREC 2003 Question Answering Track at CAS-ICT, page 147 Y. Chang, H. Xu, S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences Clairvoyance Corporation Experiments in the TREC 2003 High Accuracy Retrieval from Douments (HARD) Track, page 152 J.G. Shanahan, J. Bennett, D.A. Evans, D.A. Hull, J. Montgomery, Clairvoyance Corporation Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks, page 161 K.C. Litkowski, CL Research Combining Structural Information and the Use of Priors in Mixed Named-Page and Homepage FInding, page 177 P. Ogilvie, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategh Approach with Dynamic Planning, (this paper not in hard-copy proceedings) E. Nyberg, T. Mitamura, J. Callan, J. Carbonnell, R. Frederking, K. Collins-Thompson, L. Hiyakumoto, Y. Huang, C. Huttenhower, S. Judy, J. Ko, A. Kupsc, L.V. Lita, V. Pedro, D. Svoboda, and B. Van Durme, Carnegie Mellon University A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional Questions, page 185 S. Blair-Goldensohn, K.R. McKeown, A.H. Schlaikjer, Columbia University TREC12 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO, page 193 N. Craswell, D. Hawking, T. Upstill, A. McLean, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, CSIRO Task Descriptions: Web Track 2003, page 204 N. Craswell, D. Hawking, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, CSIRO On the Use of MeSH Headings to Improve Retrieval Effectiveness, page 215 S. Blott, C. Gurrin, G.J.F. Jones, A.F. Smeaton, T. Sodring, Dublin City University Searching for geneRIFs: Concept-Based Query Expansion and Bayes Classification, page 225 R. Jelier, M. Schuemie, C. van der Eijk, M. Weeber, E. van Mulligen, B. Schijvenaars, B. Mons, J. Kors, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2003: Robust and Web Track, page 234 G. Amati, C. Carpineto, G. Romano, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni FDUQA on TREC2003 QA task, page 246 L. Wu, X. Huang, Y. Zhou, Y. Du, L. You, Fudan University Robust, Web and Genomic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer at TREC 2003, page 254 S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird IBM Research and the University of Colorado TREC 2003 Genomics Track, page 268 E.W. Brown, IBM TJ Watson Research Center A. Dolbey, L. Hunter, University of Colorado Juru at TREC 2003 - Topic Distillation using Query-Sensitive Tuning and Cohesiveness Filtering, page 276 E. Amitay, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, M. Herscovici, R. Lempel, A. Soffer, IBM Haifa Research Lab R. Kraft, J. Zien, IBM Almaden Research Center IBM's PIQUANT in TREC2003, page 283 J. Prager, J. Chu-Carroll, K. Czuba, C. Welty, A. Ittycheriah, R. Mahindru, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center From TREC to DUC to TREC Again, page 293 J.M. Conroy, IDA/Center for Computing Sciences, D.M. Dunlavy D.P. O'Leary, University of Maryland Generic Text Summarization Using Wordnet for Novelty and Hard, page 303 G. Ramakrishnan, K. Bellare, C. Shah, D. Paranjpe, Indian Institute of Technology Passage Scoring for Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical Relations, page 305 D. Paranjpe, G. Ramakrishnan, S. Srinivasan, Indian Instutue of Technology IIT at TREC 2003, Task Classification and Document Structrure for Known-Item Search, page 311 S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, R. Cathey, L. Ma, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology A. Chowdhury, G. Pass, H. Vandermolen, America Online, Inc. Identifying Gene Function Descriptions by Probability-based Sentence Selection, page 321 K. Seki, N. Sheth, J. Mostafa, Indiana University WIDIT in TREC-2003 Web Track, page 328 K. Yang, Indiana University TREC NOVELTY TRACK AT IRIT-SIG, page 337 T. Dkaki, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Universite Toulouse le Morail J. Mothe, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Institut Unviersitaire de Formation des Maitres Midi-Pyrenees Mercure at TREC 2003 Web track - Topic Distillation Task, page 343 M. Boughanem, K. Sauvagnat, C. Laffaire, IRIT-SIG ITC-irst at TREC 2003: the DIOGENE QA System, page 349 M. Kouylekov, B. Magnini, M. Negri, H. Tanev, ITC-Irst Combining Methods for the TREC 2003 Robust Track, page 358 J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Report on the TREC 2003 Experiments Using Web Topic-Centric Link Analysis, page 363 P. Ingongngam, A. Rungsawang, Kasetsart Unviersity Biomedical Text Retrieval System at Korea University, page 368 Y.-I. Song, K.-S. Han, H.-C. Seo, S.-B. Kim, H.-C. Rim, Korea University Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning, page 375 S. Harabagiu, D. Moldovan, C. Clark, M. Bowden, J. Williams, J. Bensley, Language Computer Corporation A Non-Functional Prototype at TREC 2003, page 383 B.D. Davison, W. Zhang, J. Miller, Lehigh University The Role and Meaning of Predicative and Non-Predicative Definitions in the Search for Information, page 386 I.S. Geller, LexiClone Inc. AnswerFinder in TREC 2003, page 392 D. Molla, Macquarie University Meiji University Web and Novelty Track Experiments at TREC 2003, page 399 R. Ohgaya, A. Shimmura, T. Takagi, Meiji University Microsoft Research Asia at the Web Track of TREC 2003, page 408 J. Wen, R. Song, D. Cai, K. Zhu, S. Yu, S. Ye, W.-Y. Ma, Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-12: HARD track, page 418 S.E. Robertson, H. Zaragoza, M. Taylor, Microsoft Research Ltd. Integrating Web-based and Corpus-based Techniques for Question Answering, page 426 B. Katz, J. Lin, D. Loreto, W. Hildebrandt, M. Bilotti, S. Felshin, A. Fernandes, G. Marton, F. Mora, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MITRE's Qanda at TREC-12, page 436 J.D. Burger, The MITRE Corporation Methods for Accurate Retrieval of MEDLINE Citations in Functional Genomics, page 441 M. Kayaalp, A.R. Aronson, S.M. Humphrey, N.C. Ide, L.K. Tanabe, L.H. Smith, D. Demner, R.R. Loane, J.G. Mork, O. Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine D. Demner, University of Maryland, College Park Finiding Gene Function using LitMiner, page 451 B. de Bruijn, J. Martin, National Research Coucil of Canada Experiments in TREC 2003 Genomics Track at NTT, page 460 H. Taira, T. Izumitani, T. Hirao, H. Isozaki, H. Kazawa, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratories SVM Approach to GeneRIF Annotation, page 468 W.-J. Hou, C.-Y. Teng, C. Lee, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University Approach of Information Retrieval with Reference Corpus to Novelty Detection, page 474 M.-F. Tsai, M.-H. Hsu, H. and H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task, page 480 H. Yang, H. Cui, M. Maslennikov, L. Qiu, M.-Y. Kan, T. Chua, National University of Singapore A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering, page 489 D. Zhang, W.S. Lee, National University of Singapore-MIT Alliance Oce at TREC 2003, page 496 P. Iljin, R. Brand, S. Driessen, J. Klok, Oce-Technologies B.V. Phrases, Boosting, and Query Expansion Using External Knowledge Resources for Genomic Information Retrieval, page 503 W. Hersh, R.T. Bhupatiraju, S. Price, Oregon Health and Science University TREC 2003 Robust, HARD and QA Track Experiments using PIRCS, page 510 L. Grunfeld, K.L. Kwok, N. Dinstl, P. Deng, Queens College, CUNY Partioning a Graph of Sequences, Structures and Abstracts for Information Retrieval, page 522 A. Dayanik, Rutgers University C. Nevill-Manning, Google, Inc. R.Oughtred, Rutgers University Rutgers' HARD and Web Interactive Track Experiments at TREC 2003, page 532 N.J. Belkin, D. Kelly, H.-J. Lee, Y.-L. Li, G. Muresan, M.-C. Tang, X.-J. Yuan, X.-M. Zhang, Rutgers University Combining First and Second Order Features in the TREC 2003 Robust Track, page 544 E. Boros, P.B. Kantor, D.J. Neu, Rugters University Knowledge-Based Access to the Bio-Medical Literature, Ontologically-Grounded Experiments for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track, page 547 R. Tong, Tarragon Cosulting Corporation J. Quackenbush, The Institute for Genomic Research M. Snuffin, Tarragon Cosulting Corporation, DataNaut, Inc. THUIR at TREC 2003: HARD Experiments, page 552 L. Ma, W. Tan, Q. Chen, S. Ma, Tsinghua University S. Shi, S. Xiao, H. Wang, H. Wang, Beijing Information Technology Institute THUIR at TREC 2003: Novelty, Robust and Web, page 556 M. Zhang, C. Lin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, S. Ma, Tsinghua University Document Structure with IR Tools, page 568 G.B. Newby, University of Alaska Fairbanks Questioning Answering By Pattern Matching, Web-Proofing, Semantic Form Proofing, page 578 M. Wu, X. Zheng, M. Duan, T. Liu, T. Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track, page 586 V. Jijkoun, G. Mishne, C. Monz, M. de Rijke, S. Schlobach, O. Tsur, University of Amsterdam Approaches to Robust and Web Retrieval, page 594 J. Kamps, C. Monz, M. de Rijke, B. Sigurbjornsson, Language and Inference Technology Group, University of Amsterdam Bangor at TREC 2003: Q&A and Genomics Tracks, page 600 T. Clifton, A. Colquhoun, W. Teahan, University of Wales, Bangor BioText Team Report for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track, page 612 G. Bhalotia, P.I. Nakov, A.S. Schwartz, M.A. Hearst, University of California Berkeley Edinburgh-Stanford TREC-2003 Genomics Track, page 622 M. Osborne, M. Cuminskey, G. Sinclair, M. Smillie, B. Webber, University of Edinburgh J. Chang, N. Mehra, V. Rotemberg, R.B. Altman, Stanford University QED: The Edinburgh TREC-2003 Question Answering System, page 631 J.L. Leidner, J. Bos, T. Dalmas, J.R. Curran, S. Clark, C.J. Bannard, B. Webber, M. Steedman, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow at the Robust Track- A Query-based Model Selection Approach for the Poorly-Performing Queries, page 636 B. He, I. Ounis, University of Glasgow University of Glasgow at the Web Track: Dynamic Application of Hyperlink Analysis using the Query Scope, page 646 V. Plachouras, I. Ounis, C.J. van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow F. Cacheda, University of A Coruna UIC at TREC-2003: Robust Track, page 653 S. Liu, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago Active Feedback - UIUC TREC-2003 HARD Experiments, page 662 X. Shen, C.X. Zhai, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics Experiments, page 667 C. X. Zhai, T. Tao, H. Fang, Z. Shang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Relevance Propagation for Topic Distillation UIUC TREC 2003 Web Track Experiments, page 673 A. Shakery, C. X. Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Experiments in Novelty, Genes and Questions at the University of Iowa, page 678 D. Eichmann, P. Srinivasan, M. Light, H. Wang, X. Y. Qiu, R.J. Arens, A. Sehgal, The University of Iowa Question Answering using the DLT System at TREC 2003, page 686 R.F.E. Sutcliffe, I. Gabbay, M. Mulcahy, K. White, University of Limmerick UMBC at TREC 12, page 699 S. Kallukar, Y. Shi, R.S. Cost, C. Nicholas, A. Java, C. James, S. Rajavaram, V. Shanbhag, S. Bhatkar, D. Ogle, Univeresity of Maryland Baltimore County HARD Experiment at Maryland: From Need Negotiation to Automated HARD Process, page 707 D. He, D. Demner-Fushman, Univeresity of Maryland UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA, page 715 N. AbdulJaleel, A. Corrada-Emmanuel, Q. Li, X. Liu, C. Wade, J. Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst Robust and Web Retrieval with Document-Centric Integral Impacts, page 726 V.N. Anh, A. Moffat, The University of Melbourne The University of Michigan at TREC 2003, page 732 J. Otterbacher, H. Qi, A. Hakim, D. Radev, University of Michigan Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic and Web Searches, page 739 J. Savoy, Y. Rasolofo, L. Perret, University of Neuchatel UB at TREC 12: HARD and Genomics Tracks, page 751 M. Srikanth, M.E. Ruiz, R. Srihari, SUNY at Buffalo Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic Track, page 756 P. Ruch, G. Cohen, F. Ehrler, H. Muller, University Hospital of Geneva P. Ruch, G. Coray, H. Ghorbel, V. Pallotta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology C. Chichester, GeneBio SA F. Ehrler, AI Laboratory, University of Geneva QA UdG-UPC System at TREC-12, page 762 M. Massot, Universitat de Girona, H. Rodriguez, D. Ferres, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Multiple-Engine Question Answering in TextMap, page 772 A. Echihabi, U.Hermjakob, E. Hovy, D. Marcu, E. Melz, D. Ravichandran, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California The University of Sheffield's TREC 2003 Q&A Experiments, page 782 R. Gaizauskas, M.A. Greenwood, M. Hepple, I. Roberts, H. Saggion, M. Sargaison, University of Sheffield Towards a Sense Based Document Representation for Internet Information Retrieval, page 791 C. Stokoe, J. Tait, University of Sunderland TREC 2003 Genomics Track Experiments at UTA: Query Expansion with Predefinded High Frequency Terms, page 796 A. Pirkola, E. Leppanen, University of Tampere (UTA) A Method to Retrieve Papers from MEDLINE: PETER System, page 806 H. Ao, Y. Yamamoto, T. Takagi, University of Tokyo Task-Specific Query Expansion (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2003), page 810 D.L. Yeung, C.L.A. Clarke, G.V. Cormack, T.R. Lynam, E.L. Terra, University of Waterloo Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD Tasks, page 820 O. Vechtomova, E. Lam, University of Waterloo M. Karamuftuoglu, Bilkent University Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval, page 828 L. Wang, W. Fan, R. Yang, W. Xi, M. Luo, Y. Zhou, E.A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Insitute and State University L. Wang, University of Michigan VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track Report, page 837 R. Yang, L. Wang, W. Fan,, W. Xi, M. Luo, Y. Zhou, E.A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Insitute and State University L. Wang, University of Michigan APPENDICES Common Evaluation Measures Genomics Primary Runs Genomics Primary Results Genomics Secondary Runs Genomics Secondary Results HARD Runs Hard Results Novelty Task 1 Runs Novelty Task 1 Results Novelty Task 2 Runs Novelty Task 2 Results Novelty Task 3 Runs Novelty Task 3 Results Novelty Task 4 Runs Novelty Task 4 Results Question Answering Main Runs Question Answering Main Results Question Answering Passages Runs Question Answering Passages Results Robust Runs Robust Results Web Distillation Runs Web Distillation Results Web Named-Page Runs Web Named-Page Results TREC 2003 System Descriptions
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