Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2009 Proceedings

NIST Special Publication: SP 500-278 The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009) Proceedings
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Table of Contents alphabetically, by track alphabetically, by organization Overview Papers Overview of the TREC 2009 Blog Track C. Macdonald, I. Ounis, University of Glasgow I. Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Overview of the TREC 2009 Chemical IR Track M. Lupu, F. Piroi, J. Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) J. Huang, York University J. Zhu, University College London Overview of the TREC 2009 Entity Track K. Balog, University of Amsterdam A. de Vries, CWI P. Serdyukov, TU Delft P. Thomas, CSIRO T. Westerveld, Teezir Overview of the TREC 2009 Legal Track B. Hedin, H5 S. Tomlinson, Open Text Corporation J. R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration D. W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park Million Query Track 2009 Overview B. Carterette, H. Fang, University of Delaware V. Pavlu, Northeastern University E. Kanoulas, University of Sheffield Overview of the TREC 2009 Web Track C.L.A. Clarke, University of Waterloo N. Craswell, Microsoft I. Soboroff
Other Papers Backstop LLP and Cleary Gottlied Steen & Hamilton LLP at TREC Legal Track 2009 B. Ellis Fein, B.L. Merrell, F. Eli Nelson BIT at TREC 2009 Faceted Blog Distillation Task P. Jiang, Q. Yang, C. Zhang, Z. Niu, Beijing Institute of Technology Experiments on Related Entity Finding Track at TREC 2009 Q. Yang, P. Jiang, C. Zhang, Z. Niu, Beijing Institute of Technology A Study of Faceted Blog Distillation--PRIS at TREC 2009 Blog Track S. Li, H. Gao, H. Sun, F. Chen, O. Feng, S. Gao, H. Zhang, X. Li, C. Tan, W. Xu, G. Chen, J. Guo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications PRIS at 2009 Relevance Feedback Track: Experiments in Language Model for Relevance Feedback S. Li, X. Li, H. Zhang, S. Gao, G. Chen, J. Guo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications BUPT at TREC 2009: Entity Track Z. Wang, D. Liu. W. Xu, G. Chen, J. Guo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications CMIC@TREC 2009: Relevance Feedback Track K. Darwish, A. El-Deeb, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center (CMIC) Formulating Simple Structured Queries Using Temporal and Distributional Cues in Patents L. Zhao, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University Pairwise Document Classification for Relevance Feedback J.L. Elsas, P. Donmez, J. Callan, J.G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University ICTNET at Blog Track TREC 2009 X. Xu, Y. Liu, H. Xu, X. Yu, L. Song, F.Guan, Z. Peng, X. Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences A Novel Framework for Related Entities Finding: ICTNET at TREC 2009 Entity Track H. Zhai, X. Cheng, J. Guo, H. XU, Y. Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences ICTNET at Web Track 2009 Ad-hoc Task F. Guan, X. Yu, Z. Peng, H. Xu, Y. Liu, L. Song, Chinese Academy of Sciences ICTNET at Web Track 2009 Diversity Track W. Bi, X. Yu, Y. Liu, F. Guan, Z. Peng, H. Xu, X. Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences Clearwell Systems at TREC 2009 Legal Interactive V. Rangan, M. Jiang, Clearwell Systems, Inc. DUTIR at TREC 2009: Chemical IR Track S. Jin, Z. Ye, H. Lin, Dalian University of Technology Delft University at the TREC 2009 Entity Track: Ranking Wikipedia Entities P. Serdyukov, A. de Vries, Delft University of Technology EQUIVIO at TREC 2009 Legal Interactive T. Sterenzy, Equivio FEUP at TREC 2009 Blog Track: Temporal Evidence in the Faceted Blog Distillation Task S. Nunes, C. Ribeiro, G. David, Universidade do Porto FUB at TREC 2009 Relevance Feedback Track: Diversifying Feedback Documents (Extended Abstract) A. Bernardini, C. Carpineto, E. Ambrosi, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Patent Retrieval in Chemistry Based on Semantically Tagged Named Entities H. Gurulingappa, B. Müller, R. Klinger, H.-T. Mevissen, M. Hofmann-Apitius, J. Fluck and C.M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) and Bonn-Aachen International Centre for Information Technology (B-T) Relevance Feedback Based on Constrained Clustering: FDU at TREC 09 B. Wang, X. Huang, Fudan University IIIT Hyderabad at Million Query Track TREC 2009 P. Ullegaddi, S. Datta, V. Pande, K. Dave, V. Varma, International Institute of Information Technology Facet Classification of Blogs: Know-Center at the TREC 2009 Blog Distillation Task E. Lex, M. Granitzer, A. Juffinger, Know-Center Graz Diversifying Search Results with Popular Subtopics D. Yin, Z. Xue, X. Qi, B.D. Davison, Lehigh University Microsoft Research Asia at the Web Track of TREC 2009 Z. Dou, R. Song, Y. Ma, S. Shi, J.-R. Wen, Microsoft Research Asia K. Chen, Xi'an Jiongtong University Microsoft Research at TREC 2009 Web and Relevance Feedback Track N. Craswell, D. Fetterly, M. Najork, S. Robertson, E. Yilmaz, Microsoft Research TREC Chemical IR Track 2009: A Distributed Dimensional Indexing Model for Chemical Patent Search J. Urbain, Milwaukee School of Engineering O. Frieder, Georgetown University IRRA at TREC 2009: Index Term Weighting Based on Divergence From Independence Model B.T. Dincer, Muğla University I. Kocabaş, B. Karoğlan, Ege University NiCT at TREC 2009: Employing Three Models for Entity Ranking Track Y. Wu, H. Kashioka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NiCT) Northeastern University in the TREC 2009 Web Track S. Rajput, V. Pavlu, J. Aslam, Northeastern University E. Kanoulas, University of Sheffield Experiments with the Negotiated Boolean Queries of the TREC 2009 Legal Track S. Tomlinson, Open Text Corporation PARADISE Based Search Engine at TREC 2009 Web Track D. Shan, D. Zhao, J. He. H. Yan, Peking University POSTECH at TREC 2009 Blog Track: Top Stories Identification Y. Lee, H.-Y. Jung, W. Song, J.-H. Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology Entity Retrieval with Hierarchical Relevance Model, Exploiting the Structure of Tables and Learning Homepage Classifiers Y. Fang, L. Si, Purdue University Z. Yu, Y. Xian, Y. Xu, Kunming University of Science and Technology Strategies for Effective Chemical Information Retrieval S. Cetintas, L. Si, Purdue University Mining Specific and General Features in Both Positive and Negative Relevance Feedback Y. Li, X. Tao, A. Algarni, S.-T. Wu, Queensland University of Technology RMIT University at TREC 2009: Web Track S. Garcia, RMIT University THUIR at TREC 2009 Web Track: Finding Relevant and Diverse Results for Large Scale Web Search Z.C. Li, F. Chen, Q.L. Xing, J.W. Miao, Y.F. Xue, T. Zhu, B. Zhou, R.W. Cen, Y.Q. Liu, M. Zhang, Y.J. Jin, S.P. Ma, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology Report on the TREC 2009 Experiments: Chemical IR Track J. Gobeill, D. Teodoro, E. Patsche, P. Ruch, University and Hospitals of Geneva Lucene for n-grams using the CLUEWeb Collection G.B. Newby, C. Fallen, K. McCormick, University of Alaska Fairbanks From Blogs to News: Identifying Hot Topics in the Blogosphere W. Weerkamp, M. Tsagkias, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Related Entity Finding Based on Co-Occurance M. Bron, K. Balog, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Topical Diversity and Relevance Feedback E. Jeij, J. He, W. Weerkamp, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Heuristic Ranking and Diversification of Web Documents J. He, K. Balog, K. Hofmann, E. Meij, M. de Rijke, M. Tsagkias, W. Weerkamp, University of Amsterdam Result Diversity and Entity Ranking Experiments: Anchors, Links, Text and Wikipedia, University of Amsterdam R. Kaptein, M. Koolen, J. Kamps, University of Amsterdam A Journey in Entity Related Retrieval for TREC 2009 J. Pamarthi, G. Zhou, C. Bayrak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock TREC 2009 at the University of Buffalo: Interactive Legal E-Discovery With Enron Emails J. Wang, Y. Sun, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York P. Thompson, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems UCD SIFT in the TREC 2009 Web Track D. Lillis, F. Toolan, R.W. Collier, J. Dunnion, University College Dublin L. Ling, Fudan University UCSC at Relevance Feedback Track L. Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz J. de Arma, Arizona State University K. Yu, NEC Laboratories America Ad Hoc and Diversity Retrieval at the University of Delaware P. Chandar, A. Kailasam, D. Muppaneni, Lekha Thota, B. Carterette, University of Delaware Minimal Test Collections for Relevance Feedback B. Carterette, P. Chandar, A. Kailasam, D. Muppaneni, L. Thota, University of Delaware UDEL/SMU at TREC 2009 Entity Tracka W. Zheng, H. Fang, University of Delaware S. Gottipati, J. Jiang, Singapore Management University Axiomatic Approaches to Information Retrieval--University of Delaware at TREC 2009 Million Query and Web Tracks W. Zheng, H. Fang, University of Delaware University of Glasgow at TREC 2009: Experiments with Terrier R. McCreadie, C. Macdonald, I. Ounis, J. Peng, R.L.T. Santos, University of Glasgow Finding Related Entities by Retrieving Relations: UIUC at TREC 2009 Entity Track V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, K. Ganesan, Y. Lv, J. He, C.X. Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A Study of Term Proximity and Document Weighting Normalization in Pseudo Relevance Feedback--UIUC at TREC 2009 Million Query Track Y. Lv, V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, K. Ganesan, C.X. Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign J. He, Peking University TREC Blog and TREC Chem: A View from the Corn Fields Y. Mejova, V. H. Thuc, S. Foster, C. Harris, B. Arens, P. Srinivasan, The University of Iowa University of Lugano at TREC 2009 Blog Track M. Keikha, M. Carman, R. Gwadera, S. Gerani, I. Markov, G. Inches, A. Azrinudin, A. and F. Crestani, University of Lugano UMass Amherst and UT Austin @ the TREC 2009 Relevance Feedback Track M.-A. Cartright, J. Seo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst M. Lease, University of Texas at Austin Of Ivory and Smurfs: Loxodontan MapReduce Experiments for Web Search J. Lin, T. Elsayed, L. Wang, University of Maryland, College Park D. Metzler, Yahoo! Research University of Padua at TREC 2009: Relevance Feedback Track E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci, University of Padua BRAT: A Random Walk Through the Semantic Spaces of the Blogosphere A. El Ghali, Y. V. Hoareau, CHArt-Lutin-Université Paris 8 A Model for Understanding Collaborative Information Behavior in E-Discovery Z. Yue, D. He, University of Pittsburgh Sparse Matrix Factorization: Applications to Latent Semantic Indexing E. Moulding, R.J. Spiteri, University of Saskatchewan A. Kontostathis, Ursinus College Northeastern University in TREC 2009 Million Query Track E. Kanoulas, University of Sheffield K. Dai, V. Pavlu, S. Savev, J. Aslam, Northeastern University University of Twente @ TREC 2009: Indexing Half a Million Web Pages C. Hauff, D. Hiemstra, University of Twente Experiments with ClueWeb09: Relevance Feedback and Web Tracks M.D. Smucker, C.L.A. Clarke, G.V. Cormack, University of Waterloo Machine Learning for Information Retrieval: TREC 2009 Web, Relevance Feedback and Legal Tracks G.V. Cormack, M. Mojdeh, University of Waterloo York University at TREC 2009: Chemical Track J. Zhao, X. Huang, Z. Ye, York University Z. Ye, Dalian University of Technology J. Zhu, University College London G York University at TREC 2009: Relevance Feedback Track Z. Ye, X. Huang, B. He, York University Z. Ye, H. Lin, Dalian University of Technology ZL Technologies at TREC 2009 Legal Interactive Comparing Exclusionary and Investigative Approaches for Electronic Discovery Using the TREC Enron Corpus J. Wang, C. Coles, R. Elliot. S. Andrianakou, ZL Technologies Appendix Appendix A Cover Common Evaluation Measures Faceted Blog Distillation Runs Faceted Blog Distillation Results Blog Top Stories Runs Blog Top Stories Results Chemical Prior Art (small) Runs Chemical Prior Art Runs Chemical Technology Survey Runs Entity Runs Legal Batch Runs Legal Batch Results Legal Interactive Runs Legal Interactive Run Descriptions Legal Interactive Run Results Million Query Runs Million Query Results Relevance Feedback Phase 1 Runs Relevance Feedback Phase 2 Runs Relevance Feedback Phase 1 and 2 Results Web adhoc Runs Web adhoc A Results Web adhoc B Results Web diversity Runs Web diversity Appendix
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