Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2005 Proceedings

NIST Special Publication: SP 500-266 The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005) Proceedings
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Table of Contents alphabetically, by organization alphabetically, by track Proceedings Papers Overview of TREC 2005 E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Overview of the TREC 2005 Enterprise Track N. Craswell, Microsoft Research Cambridge A.P. de Vries, CWI I. Soboroff, NIST TREC 2005 Genomics Track Overview W. Hersh, A. Cohen, J. Yang, R.T. Bhupatiraju, Oregon Health & Science University P. Roberts, Biogen Idec Corporation M. Hearst, University of California, Berkeley HARD Track Overview in TREC 2005 High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents J. Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst Overview of the TREC 2005 Question Answering Track E.M. Voorhees, H.T. Dang, NIST Overview of the TREC 2005 Robust Retrieval Track E.M. Voorhees, NIST TREC 2005 Spam Track Overview G. Cormack, T. Lynam, University of Waterloo The TREC 2005 Terabyte Track C.L.A. Clarke, University of Waterloo F. Scholer, RMIT I. Soboroff, NIST Enhance Genomic IR with Term Variation and Expansion: Experience of the IASL Group at Genomic Track 2005 T.-H. Tsai, C.-W. Wu, H.-C. Hung, Y.-C. Wang, D. He, Y.-F. Lin, C.-W. Lee, T.-Y. Sung, W.-L. Hsu, Academia Sinica Genomic Information Retrieval Through Selective Extraction and Tagging by the ASU-BioAL Group L. Yu, S. Toufeeq Ahmed, G. Gonzalez, B. Logsdon, M. Nakamura, S. Nikkila, K. Shah, L. Tari, R. Wendt, A. Zeigler, C. Baral, Arizona State University Building on Redundancy: Factoid Question Answering, Robust Retrieval and the "Other" D. Roussinov, Arizona State University E. Filatova, Columbia University M. Chau, The University of Hong Kong J.A. Robles-Flores, Arizona State University/ESAN TREC 2005 Enterprise Track Experiments at BUPT Z. Ru, Y. Chen, W. Xu, J. Guo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications PRIS Kidult Anti-SPAM Solution at the TREC 2005 Spam Track: Improving the Performance of Naive Bayes for Spam Detection Z. Yang, W. Xu, B. Chen, J. Hu, J. Guo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications DBACL at the TREC 2005 L.A. Breyer CSUSM at TREC 2005: Genomics and Enterprise Track R. Guillen, California State University San Marcos Experiments with Language Models for Known-Item Finding of E-mail Messages P. Ogilvie, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University JAVELIN I and II Systems at TREC 2005 E. Nyberg, R. Frederking, T. Mitamura, M. Bilotti, K. Hannan, L. Hiyakumoto, J. Ko, F. Lin, L. Lita, V. Pedro, A. Schlaikjer, Carnegie Mellon University Thresholding Strategies for Text Classifiers: TREC 2005 Biomedical Triage Task Experiments, L. Si, Carnegie Mellon University T. Kanungo, IBM Almaden Research Center CAS-ICT at TREC 2005 Robust Track: Using Query Expansion and RankFusion to Improve Effectiveness and Robustness of Ad Hoc Information Retrieval G. Ding, B. Wang, S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS-ICT at TREC 2005 SPAM Track: Using Non-Textual Information to Improve Spam Filtering Performance S. Wang, B. Wang, H. Lang, X. Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NLPR) NLPR at TREC 2005: HARD Experiments B. Lv. J. Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NLPR) Relevance Feedback by Exploring the Different Feedback Sources and Collection Structure J. Zhang, L. Sun, Y. Lv, W. Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Pattern Based Customized Learning for TREC Genomics Track Categorization Task W. Lam, Y. Han, K. Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong Exploring Document Content with XML to Answer Questions K.C. Litkowski, CL Research CRM114 versus Mr. X: CRM114 Notes for the TREC 2005 Spam Track F. Assis, Embratel W. Yerazunis, Mitsubishi C. Siefkes, Freie Universitat Berlin S. Chhabra, Mitsubhshi and University of California TREC 14 Enterprise Track at CSIRO and ANU M. Wu, D. Hawking, CSIRO ICT Centre P. Thomas, Australian National University DalTREC 2005 QA System Jellyfish: Mark-and-Match Approach to Question Answering T. Abou-Assaleh, N. Cercone, J. Doyle, V. Keselj, C. Whidden, Dalhousie University DalTREC 2005 Spam Track: Spam Filtering Using N-gram-based Techniques V. Keselj, E. Milios, A. Tuttle, S. Wang, R. Zhang, Dalhousie University TREC 2005 Genomics Track Experiments at DUTAI Z. Yang, H. Lin, Y. Li, B. Liu, Y. Lu, Dalian University of Technology DataparkSearch at TREC 2005 M. Zakharov, OOO Datapark QACTIS-based Question Answering at TREC 2005 P. Schone, U.S. Department of Defense G. Ciany, Dragon Development Corporation R. Cutts, Henggeler Computer Consultants P. McNamee, J. Mayfield, T. Smith, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory TREC 2005 Enterprise Track Results from Drexel W. Zhu, R.B. Allen, Drexel University M. Song, Temple University Structural Term Extraction for Expansion of Template-Based Genomic Queries F. Camous, S. Blott, C. Gurrin, G.J.F. Jones, A.F. Smeaton, Dublin City University Dublin City University at the TREC 2005 Terabyte Track P. Ferguson, C. Gurrin, A.F. Smeaton, P. Wilkins, Dublin City University Fuzzy Proximity Ranking with Boolean Queries M. Beigbeder, A. Mercier, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Sanit-Etienne TREC 2005 Genomics Track A Concept-Based Approach to Text Categorization B.J.A. Schijvenaars, M.J. Schuemie, E.M. van Mulligen, M. Weeber, R. Jelier, B. Mons, J.A. Kors, Erasmus University Medical Center W. Kraaij, TNO WIM at TREC 2005 J. Niu, L. Sun, L. Lou, F. Deng, C. Lin, H. Zheng, X. Huang, Fudan University FDUQA on TREC 2005 QA Track L. Wu, X. Huang, Y. Zhou, Z. Zhang, F. Lin, Fudan University Insun05QA on QA Track of TREC 2005 Y. Zhao, Z. Xu, Y. Guan, P. Li, Harbin Institute of Technology MATRIX at the TREC 2005 Robust Track W.S. Wong, H.C. Wu, R.W.P. Luk, H.V. Leong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University K.F. Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong K.L. Kwok, City University of New York Enterprise, QA, Robust and Terabyte Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServer at TREC 2005 S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird Juru at TREC 2005: Query Prediction in the Terabyte and the Robust Tracks E. Yom-Tov, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, D. Pelleg, S. Errera-Yaakov, S. Fine, IBM Haifa Research Lab Biomedical Document Triage: Automatic Classification Exploiting Category Specific Knowledge L.V. Subramaniam, S. Mukherjea, IBM India Research Lab D. Punjani, Indian Institute of Technology IBM SpamGuru on the TREC 2005 Spam Track R. Segal, IBM Research TREC 2005 Genomics Track Experiments at IBM Watson R.K. Ando, IBM Watson Research M. Dredze, University of Pennsylvania T. Zhang, Yahoo, Inc. IBM's PIQUANT II in TREC 2005 J. Chu-Carroll, P. Duboue, J. Prager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center K. Czuba, Google, Inc. IIT TREC 2005: Genomics Track J. Urbain, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology WIDIT in TREC 2005 HARD, Robust, and SPAM Tracks K. Yang, N. Yu, N. George, A. Loehrlen, D. McCaulay, H. Zhang, S. Akram, J. Mei, I. Record, Indiana University, Bloomington TREC 2005 Genomics Track at I2R N. Yu, Y. Lingpeng, J. Donghong, Z. Jie, S. Jian, Y. Xiaofeng, S.-H. Tan, X. Juan, Z. Guodong, Institute for Infocomm Research A Conceptual Indexing Approach for the TREC Robust Task M. Baziz, M. Boughanem, IRIT-UPS N. Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS JHU/APL at TREC 2005: QA Retrieval and Robust Tracks J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Spam Filtering Using Character-Level Markov Models: Experiments for the TREC 2005 Spam Track A. Bratko, B. Filipic, Jozef Stefan Institute Employing Two Question Answering Systems in TREC 2005 S. Harabagiu, D. Moldovan, C. Clark, M. Bowden, A. Hickl, P. Wang, Language Computer Corporation Differential Linguistics at NIST TREC I. Geller, LexiClone The Lowlands' TREC Experiments 2005 The Lowlands' Team: H. Rode, D. Hiemstra, University of Twente G. Ramirez, T. Westerveld, A.P. de Vries, CWI AnswerFinder at TREC 2005 D. Molla, M. Van Zaanen, Macquarie University A TREC Along the Spam Track with SpamBayes T.A. Meyer, Massey University Meiji University HARD and Robust Track Experiments K. Kudo, K. Imai, M. Hashimoto, T. Takagi, Meiji University Research on Expert Search at Enterprise Track of TREC 2005 Y. Cao, H. Li, Microsoft Research Asia J. Liu, Nankai University S. Bao, Shanghai Jiaotong University Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 14: Enterprise Track N. Craswell, H. Zaragoza, S. Robertson, Microsoft Research Ltd. Factoid Question Answering over Unstructured and Structured Web Content S. Cucerzan, E. Agichtein, Microsoft Research External Knowledge Sources for Question Answering B. Katz, G. Marton, G. Borchardt, A. Brownell, S. Felshin, D. Loreto, J. Louis-Rosenberg, B. Lu, F. Mora, S. Stiller, O. Uzuner, A. Wilcox, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MITRE's Qanda at TREC 14 J.D. Burger, S. Bayer, The MITRE Corporation Fusion of Knowledge-Intensive and Statistical Approaches for Retrieving and Annotating Textual Genomics Documents A.R. Aronson, D. Demner-Fushman, S.M. Humphrey, J. Lin, P. Ruch, M.E. Ruiz, L.H. Smith, L.K.Tanabe, W.J. Wilbur, National Library of Medicine D. Demner-Fushman, J. Lin, University of Maryland, College Park H. Liu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Retrieval of Biomedical Documents by Prioritizing Key Phrases K.H.-Y. Lin, W.-J. Hou, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University Identifying Relevant Full-Text Articles for Database Curation C. Lee, W.-J. Hou, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University National Taiwan University at Terabyte Track of TREC 2005 M.-H. Hsu, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University Using Syntactic and Semantic Relation Analysis in Question Answering R. Sun, J. Jiang, Y.F. Tan, H. Cui, T.-S. Chua, M.-Y. Kan, National University of Singapore A Comparison of Techniques for Classification and Ad Hoc Retrieval of Biomedical Documents A.M. Cohen, J. Yang, W.R. Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University CNDS Expert Finding System for TREC 2005 C. Yao, B. Peng, J. He, Z. Yang, Peking University Peking University at the TREC 2005 Question and Answering Track J. He, C. Chen, C. Yao, P. Yin, Y. Bao, Peking University Tianwang Search Engine at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track H. Yan, J. Li, J. Zhu, B, Peng, Peking University Simple Language Models for Spam Detection E. Terra, PUC/RS The QMUL Team with Probabilistic SQL at Enterprise Track T. Roelleke, E. Ashoori, H. Wu, Z. Cai, Queen Mary University of London TREC 2005 Robust Track Experiments Using PIRCS K.L. Kwok, L. Grunfeld, N. Dinstl, P. Deng, Queens College, CUNY Queensland University of Technology at TREC 2005 A. Woodley, C. Lu, T. Sahama, J. King, S. Geva, Queensland University of Technology Applying Probabilistic Thematic Clustering for Classification in the TREC 2005 Genomics Track Z.H. Zheng, S. Brady, A. Garg, H. Shatkay, Queen's University RMIT University at TREC 2005: Terabyte and Robust Track Y. Bernstein, B. Billerbeck, S. Garcia, N. Lester, F. Scholer, J. Zobel, RMIT University W. Webber, The University of Melbourne DIMACS at the TREC 2005 Genomics Track A. Dayanik, A. Genkin, P. Kantor, D.D.Lewis, D. Madigan, Rutgers University, DIMACS Rutgers Information Interaction Lab at TREC 2005: Trying HARD N.J. Belkin, M. Cole, J. Gwizdka, Y.-L. Li, J.-J. Liu, G. Muresan, C.A. Smith, A. Taylor, X.-J. Yuan, Rutgers University D. Roussinov, Arizona State University Looking at Limits and Tradeoffs: Sabir Research at TREC 2005, C. Buckley, Sabir Research, Inc. QuALiM at TREC 2005: Web-Question Answering with FrameNet M. Kaisser, Saarland University/DFKI GmbH SAIC & University of Virginia at TREC 2005: HARD Track J. Michel, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) X. Jin, J.C. French, University of Virginia Synonym-Based Expansion and Boosting-Based Re-Ranking: A Two-phase Approach for Genomic Information Retrieval Z. Shi, B. Gu, F. Popowich, A. Sarkar, Simon Fraser University Experiments on Genomics Ad Hoc Retrieval M. E. Ruiz, State University of New York at Buffalo Question Answering with Lydia (TREC 2005 QA Track) J. H. Kil, L. Lloyd, S. Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook TREC 2005 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology E. Whittaker, P. Chatain, S. Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology D. Klakow, Saarland University THUIR at TREC 2005: Enterprise Track Y. Fu, W. Yu, Y. Li, Y. Liu, M. Zhang, Tsinghua University (State Key Lab) Learning Domain-Specific Knowledge from Context--THUIR at TREC 2005 Genomics Track J. Li, X. Zhang, Y. Hao, M. Huang, X. Zhu, Tsinghua University (State Key Lab) THUIR at TREC 2005 Terabyte Track L. Zhao, R. Ceng, M. Zhang, Y. Jin, S. Ma, Tsinghua University (State Key Lab) Logistic Regression Merging of Amberfish and Lucene Multisearch Results C. T. Fallen, G.B. Newby, University of Alaska, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center ILQUA--An IE-Driven Question Answering System M. Wu, M. Duan, S. Shaikh, S. Small, T. Strzalkowski, University of Albany SUNY Language Modeling Approaches for Enterprise Tasks L. Azzopardi, K. Balog, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Towards a Multi-Stream Question Answering-As-XML-Retrieval Strategy D. Ahn, S. Fissaha, V. Jijkoun, K. Muller, M. De Rijke, E. Tjong Kim Sang, University of Amsterdam Effective Smoothing for a Terabyte of Text J. Kamps, University of Amsterdam Combining Thesauri-Based Methods for Biomedical Retrieval E. Meij, L. Ijzereef, L. Azzopardi, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Question Answering with SEMEX at TREC 2005 D. G. Glinos, University of Central Florida Concept Recognition and the TREC Genomics Tasks J.G. Caporaso, W. A. Baumgartner, Jr., K.B. Cohen, H.L. Johnson, J. Paquette, L. Hunter, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Applying the Annotation View on Messages for Discussion Search I. Frommholz, University of Duisburg-Essen Question Answering with QED at TREC 2005 K. Ahn, J. Bos, D.Kor, M. Nissim, B. Webber, University of Edinburgh J.R. Curran, University of Sydney University of Glasgow at TREC 2005: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier C. Macdonald, B. He, V. Plachouras, I. Ounis, University of Glasgow Report on the TREC 2005 Experiment: Genomics Track P. Ruch, F. Ehrler, SIM University and University Hospital of Geneva S. Abdou, J. Savoy, Universite de Neuchatel Experiment Report of TREC 2005 Genomics Track ad hoc Retrieval Task W. Zhou, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago UIC at TREC 2005: Robust Track S. Liu, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago UIUC/MUSC at TREC 2005 Genomics Track C. Zhai, X. Ling, X. He, A. Velivelli, X. Wang, H. Fang, A. Shakery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign X. Lu, Medical University of South Carolina Interactive Construction of Query Language Models - UIUC TREC 2005 HARD Track Experiments B. Tan, A. Velivelli, H. Fang, C. Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An Axiomatic Approach to IR--UIUC TREC 2005 Robust Track Experiments H. Fang, C. Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Experiments in Questions and Relationships at the University of Iowa D. Eichmann, P. Srinivasan, The University of Iowa Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2005 M. Mulcahy, K. White, I. Gabbay, A. O'Gorman, University of Limerick R.F.E. Sutcliffe, University of Essex A Menagerie of Tracks at Maryland: HARD, Enterprise, QA, and Genomics, Oh My! J. Lin, E. Abels, D. Demner-Fishman, D.W.Oard, P. Wu. Y. Wu, University of Maryland, College Park When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005 F. Diaz, J. Allan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst UMass Robust 2005: Using Mixtures of Relevance Models for Query Expansion D. Metzler, F. Diaz, T. Strohman, W.B. Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Indri at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track D. Metzler, T. Strohman, Y. Zhou, W.B. Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Melbourne University 2005: Enterprise and Terabyte Tasks V.N. Anh, W. Webber, A. Moffat, The University of Melbourne UM-D at TREC 2005: Genomics Track L. Huang, Z. Chen, Y.L. Murphey, The University of Michigan-Dearborn University of North Carolina's HARD Track Experiment at TREC 2005 D. Kelly, X. Fu, University of North Carolina Evaluation of Stemming, Query Expansion and Manual Indexing Approaches for the Genomic Task S. Abdou, J. Savoy, University of Neuchatel P. Ruck, University Hospital of Geneva UNT 2005 TREC QA Participation: Using Lemur as IR Search Engine J. Chen, P. Yu, H. Ge, University of North Texas MG4J at TREC 2005 P. Boldi, S. Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano Symbol-Based Query Expansion Experiments at TREC 2005 Genomics Track M. Bacchin, M. Melucci, University of Padova IXE at the TREC 2005 Terabyte Task (.pdf file) G. Attardi, Universita di Pisa Pitt at TREC 2005: HARD and Enterprise D. He, J.-W. Ahn, University of Pittsburgh TALP-UPC at TREC 2005: Experiments Using a Voting Scheme Among Three Heterogeneous QA Systems D. Ferres, S. Kanaan, D. Dominguez-Sal, E. Gonzalez, A. Ageno, M. Fuentes, H. Rodriguez, M. Surdeanu, J. Turmo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya The University of Sheffield's TREC 2005 Q&A Experiments R. Gaizauskas, M.A. Greenwood, H. Harkema, M. Hepple, H. Saggion, A. Sanka, University of Sheffield University of Strathclyde at TREC HARD M. Baillie, D. Elsweiler, E. Nicol, I. Ruthven, S. Sweeney, M. Yakici, F. Crestani, M. Landoni, University of Strathclyde TREC 2005 Genomics Track Experiments at UTA A. Pirkola, University of Tampere Efficiency vs. Effectiveness in Terabyte-Scale Information Retrieval S. Buttcher, C.L.A. Clarke, University of Waterloo Experiments for HARD and Enterprise Tracks O. Vechtomova, M. Kolla, University of Waterloo M. Karamuftuoglu, Bilkent University Classifying Biomedical Articles by Making Localized Decisions T. Brow, B. Settles, M. Craven, Stanford University and University of Wisconsin, Madison York University at TREC 2005: Genomics Track X. Huang, M. Zhong, York University L. Si, Carnegie Mellon University York University at TREC 2005: HARD Track M. Wen, X. Huang, A. An, Y. Huang, York University York University at TREC 2005: SPAM Track W. Cao, A. An, X. Huang, York University York University at TREC 2005: Terabyte Track M. Kovacevic, X. Huang, York University Appendix Appendix A Cover Common Evaluation Measures Enterprise Discussion Runs Enterprise Discussion Results Enterprise Expert Runs Enterprise Expert Results Enterprise Known-Item Runs Enterprise Known-Item Results Genomics adhoc Runs Genomics adhoc Results Genomics Category Runs Genomics Category Results HARD Baseline Runs HARD Baseline Results HARD Final Runs HARD Final Results QA Document-Ranking Runs QA Document-Ranking Results QA Main Runs QA Main Results QA Relationship Runs QA Relationship Results Robust Runs Robust Results SPAM Runs Spam Results Terabyte adhoc Runs Terabyte adhoc Results Terabyte Efficiency Runs Terabyte Efficiency Results Terabyte Named-Page Runs Terabyte Named-Page Results TREC 2005 System Descriptions
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