Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) TREC 2004 Proceedings

NIST Special Publication: SP 500-261 The Thirteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2004)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAPERS alphabetically, by organization alphabetically, by track Proceedings Papers Overview of TREC 2004, E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TREC 2004 Genomics Track Overview, W.R. Hersh, R.T. Bhuptiraju, L. Ross, A.M. Cohen, D.F. Kraemer, Oregon Health & Science University P. Johnson, Biogen Idec Corporation HARD Track Overview in TREC 2004 High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents, J.Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst Overview of the TREC 2004 Novelty Track, I. Soboroff, NIST Overview of the TREC 2004 Question Answering Track, E.M. Voorhees, NIST Overview of the TREC 2004 Robust Track, E.M. Voorhees, NIST Overview of the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track, C. Clarke, University of Waterloo N. Craswell, Microsoft Research I. Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology Overview of the TREC 2004 Web Track, N. Craswell, MSR Cambridge D. Hawking, CSIRO Phrasal Queries with LingPipe and Lucene: Ad Hoc Genomics Text Retrieval, B. Carpenter, Alias-i, Inc. Experiments with Web QA System and TREC 2004 Questions, D. Roussinov, Y. Ding, J.A. Robles-Flores, Arizona State University Categorization of Genomics Text Based on Decision Rules, R. Guillen, California State University San Marcos Initial Results with Structured Queries and Language Models on Half a Terabyte of Text, K. Collins-Thompson, P. Ogilvie, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University Experiments in TREC 2004 Novelty Track at CAS-ICT, H.-P. Zhang, H.-B. Xu, S. Bai, B. Wang, X.-Q. Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences TREC 2004 Web Track Experiments at CAS-ICT, Z. Zhou, Y. Guo, B. Wang, X. Cheng, H. Xu, G. Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences NLPR at TREC 2004: Robust Experiments, J. Xu, J. Zhao, B. Xu, Chinese Academy of Science ISCAS at TREC 2004: HARD Track, L. Sun, J. Zhang, Y. Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences TREC 2004 HARD Track Experiments in Clustering, D.A. Evans, J. Bennett, J. Montgomery, V. Sheftel, D.A. Hull, J.G. Shanahan, Clairvoyance Corporation Evolving XML and Dictionary Strategies for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks, K.C. Litkowski, CL Research Columbia University in the Novelty Track at TREC 2004, B. Schiffman, K.R. McKeown, Columbia University Concept Extraction and Synonymy Management for Biomedical Information Retrieval, C. Crangle, A. Zbyslaw, ConverSpeech LLC M. Cherry, E. Hong, Stanford University DalTREC 2004: Question Answering Using Regular Expression Rewriting, V. Keselj, A. Cox, Dalhousie University, Halifax Experiments in Terabyte Searching, Genomic Retrieval and Novelty Detection for TREC 2004, S. Blott, F. Camous, P. Ferguson, G. Gaughan, C. Gurrin, J.G.F. Jones, N. Murphy, N. O'Connor, A.F. Smeaton, P. Wilkins, Dublin City University O. Boydell, B. Smyth, University College Dublin Amberfish at the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track, N. Nassar, Etymon Systems Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2004, G. Amati, C. Carpineto, G. Romano, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni FDUQA on TREC 2004 QA Track, L. Wu, X. Huang, L. You, Z. Zhang, X. Li, Y. Zhou, Fudan University The GUC Goes to TREC 2004: Using Whole or Partial Documents for Retrieval and Classification in the Genomics Track, K. Darwish, A. Madkour, The German University in Cairo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at the TREC 2004 Robust Track, D.Y. Wang, R.W.P. Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University K.F. Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Robust, Web and Terabyte Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer at TREC 2004, S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird Juru at TREC 2004: Experiments with Prediction of Query Difficulty, E. Yom-Tov, S. Fine, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, E. Amitay, IBM Haifa Research Labs IBM's PIQUANT II in TREC 2004, J. Chu-Carroll, K. Czuba, J. Prager, A. Ittycheriah, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center S. Blair-Goldensohn, Columbia University A Hidden Markov Model for the TREC Novelty Task, J.M. Conroy, IDA/CCS IIT at TREC 2004 Standard Retrieval Models Over Partitioned Indices for the Terabyte Track, J. Heard, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology WIDIT in TREC 2004 Genomics, Hard, Robust and Web Tracks, K. Yang, N. Yu, A. Wead, G. La Rowe, Y.-H. Li, C. Friend, Y. Lee, Indiana University TREC 2004 Genomics Track Experiments at IUB, K. Seki, J.C. Costello, V.R. Singan, J. Mostafa, Indiana University Bloomington TREC Novelty Track at IRIT-SIG, T. Dkaki, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) and Universite Toulouse le Mirail J. Mothe, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) and Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres Midi-Pyrenees Combining Linguistic Processing and Web Mining for Question Answering: ITC-irst at TREC 2004, H. Tanev, M. Kouylekov, B. Magnini, ITC-irst JHU/APL at TREC 2004: Robust and Terabyte Tracks, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, S. Cost, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Korea University Question Answering System at TREC 2004, K.-S. Han, H. Chung, S.-B. Kim, Y.-I. Song, J.-Y. Lee, H.-C. Rim, Korea University Novel Approaches in Text Information Retrieval Experiments in the Web Track of TREC 2004, M. Farah, D. Vanderpooten, Lamsade, University of Paris Dauphine LexiClone Inc. and NIST TREC, I. Geller, LexiClone AnswerFinder at TREC 2004, D. Molla, M. Gardiner, Macquarie University Meiji University Web, Novelty and Genomic Track Experiments, T. Tomiyama, K. Karoji, T. Kondo, Y. Kakuta, T. Takagi, Meiji University Microsoft Research Asia at Web Track and Terabyte Track of TREC 2004, R. Song, J.-R. Wen, S. Shi, G. Xin, T.-Y. Liu, T. Qin, X. Zheng, J. Zhang, G. Xue, W.-Y. Ma, Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 13: Web and Hard Tracks, H. Zaragoza, N. Craswell, M. Taylor, S. Saria, S. Robertson, Microsoft Research Ltd. Answering Multiple Questions on a Topic From Heterogeneous Resources, B. Katz, M. Bilotti, S. Felshin, A. Fernandes, W. Hildebrandt, R. Katzir, J. Lin, D. Loreto, G. Marton, F. Mora, O. Uzuner, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Experience of Using SVM for the Triage Task in TREC 2004 Genomics Track, D. Zhang, W.S. Lee, National University of Singapore Knowledge-Intensive and Statistical Approaches to the Retrieval and Annotation of Genomics MEDLINE Citations, A.R. Aronson, D. Demmer, S.H. Humphrey, N.C. Ide, W. Kim, R.R. Loane, J.G. Mork, L.H. Smith, L.K. Tanabe, W.J. Wilbur, N. Xie, National Library of Medicine D. Demner, University of Maryland, College Park H. Liu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Identifying Relevant Full-Text Articles for GO Annotation Without MeSH Terms, C. Lee, W.-J. Hou, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University Similarity Computation in Novelty Detection and Biomedical Text Categorization, M.-F. Tsai, M.-H. Hus, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University National University of Singapore at the TREC 13 Question Answering Main Task, H. Cui, K. Li, R. Sun, T.-S. Chua, M.-Y. Kan, National University of Singapore Feature Generation, Feature Selection, Classifiers, and Conceptual Drift for Biomedical Document Triage, A.M. Cohen, R.T. Bhupatiraju, W.R. Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University Revisiting Again Document Length Hypotheses TREC 2004 Genomics Track Experiments at Patolis, S. Fujita, Patolis Corporation Part-of-Speech Sense Matrix Model Experiments in the TREC 2004 Robust Track at ICL, PKU, B. Swen, X-Q. Lu, H.-Y. Zan, Q. Su, Z.-G. Lai, K. Xiang, J.-H. Hu, Peking University, Beijing TREC 2004 Robust Track Experiments Using PIRCS, K.L. Kwok, L. Grunfeld, H.L. Sun, P. Deng, Queens College, CUNY RMIT University at TREC 2004, B. Billerbeck, A. Cannane, A. Chattaraj, N. Lester, W. Webber, H.E. Williams, J. Yiannis, J. Zobel, RMIT University The Robert Gordon University's HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004, D.J. Harper, G. Muresan, B. Liu, I. Koychev, D. Wettschereck, N. Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University Rutgers' HARD Track Experiences at TREC 2004, N.J. Belkin, I. Chaleva, M. Cole, Y.-L. Li, L. Liu, Y.-H. Liu, G. Muresan, C.L. Smith, Y. Sun, X.-J. Yuan, X.-M. Zhang, Rutgers University DIMACS at the TREC 2004 Genomics Track, A. Dayanik, D. Fradkin, A. Genkin, P. Kantor, D. Madigan, Rutgers University DIMACS D. D. Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting V. Menkov, Aqsaqal Enterprises Question Answering by Searching Large Corpora With Linguistic Methods, M. Kaisser, T. Becker, Saarland University/DFKI GmbH SJTU at TREC 2004: Web Track Experiments, Y. Lu, J. Hu, F. Ma, Shanghai Jiaotong University UB at TREC 13: Genomics Track, M.E. Ruiz, State University of New York at Buffalo M. Srikanth, Language Computer Corporation R. Srihari, Cedar/Buffalo Information Needs and Automatic Queries, R.M. Tong, Tarragon Consulting Corporation MeSH Based Feedback, Concept Recognition and Stacked Classification for Curation Tasks, W. Kraaij, S. Raaijmakers, TNO-TPD M. Weeber, R. Jelier, Erasmus Medical Center THUIR at TREC 2004: Genomics Track, J.Li, X. Zhang, M. Zhang, X. Zhu, Tsinghua University Improved Feature Selection and Redundance Computing-- THUIR at TREC 2004 Novelty Track, L. Ru, L. Zhao, M. Zhang, S. Ma, Tsinghua University THUIR at TREC 2004: QA, W. Tan, Q. Chen, S. Ma, Tsinghua University Using Normal PC to Index and Retrieval Terabyte Document--THUIR at TREC 2004 Terabyte Track, Y. Jn, W. Qi, M. Zhang, S. Ma, Tsinghua University Finding "Abstract Fields" of Web Pages and Query Specific Retrieval-- THUIR at TREC 2004 Web Track, Y. Liu, C. Wang, M. Zhang, S. Ma, Tsinghua University Question Answering with QACTIS at TREC 2004, P. Schone, T. Bassi, A. Kulman, U.S. Department of Defense G. Ciany, Dragon Development Corporation P. McNamee, J. Mayfield, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Towards Grid-Based Information Retrieval, G.B. Newby, University of Alaska Fairbanks Using Wikipedia at the TREC QA Track, D. Ahn, V. Jijkoun, G. Mishne, K. Muller, M. de Rijke, S. Schloback, University of Amsterdam Language Models for Searching in Web Corpora, J. Kamps, G. Mishne, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam BioText Team Experiments for the TREC 2004 Genomics Track, P.I. Nakov, A.S. Schwartz, E. Stoica, M.A. Hearst, University of California Berkeley University of Chicago at TREC 2004: HARD Track, G.-A. Levow, University of Chicago TREC Genomics 2004, G. Sinclair, B. Webber, University of Edinburgh Question Answering with QED and Wee at TREC 2004, K. Ahn, J. Bos, S. Clark, T. Dalmas, J.L. Leidner, M.B. Smillie, B. Webber, University of Edinburgh J.R. Curran, University of Sydney University of Glasgow at TREC 2004: Experiments in Web, Robust, and Terabyte Tracks with Terrier, V. Plachouras, B. He, I. Ounis, University of Glasgow Report on the TREC 2004 Experiment: Genomics Track, P. Ruch, C. Chichester, G. Cohen, F. Ehrler, P. Fabry, J. Marty, H. Muller, A. Geissbuhler, University Hospital of Geneva UIC at TREC 2004: Robust Track, S. Liu, C. Sun, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago UIUC in HARD 2004--Passage Retrieval Using HMMs, J. Jiang, C.X. Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Novelty, Question Answering and Genomics: The University of Iowa Response, D. Eichmann, Y. Zhang, S. Bradshaw, X. Ying Qiu, L. Zhou, P. Srinivasan, A. Kumar Sehgal, H. Wong, The University of Iowa University of Lethbridge's Participation in TREC 2004 QA Track, Y. Chali, S. Dubien, University of Lethbridge Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2004, R.F.E. Sutcliffe, I. Gabbay, K. White, A. O'Gorman, M. Mulcahy, University of Limerick UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD, N. Abdul-Jaleel, J. Allan, W.B. Croft, F. Diaz, L. Larkey, X. Li, M.D. Smucker, C. Wade, University of Massachusetts Indri at TREC 2004: Terabyte Track, D. Metzler, T. Strohman, H. Turtle, W.B. Croft, University of Massachusetts Improving Passage Retrieval Using Interactive Elicition and Statistical Modeling, D. He, D. Demner-Fushman, D.W. Oard, University of Maryland College Park D. Karakow, S. Khudanpur, Johns Hopkins University Melbourne University 2004: Terabyte and Web Tracks, V.N. Anh, A. Moffat, The University of Melbourne The University of Michigan in Novelty 2004, G. Erkan, University of Michigan University of North Carolina's HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004, D. Kelly, V. Deepak Dollu, X. Fu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences, J. Chen, G. He, Y. Wu, S. Jiang, University of North Texas Expanding Queries Using Stems and Symbols, M. Bacchin, M. Melucci, University of Padova From the Texts to the Contexts They Contain: A Chain of Linguistic Treatments, A. Amrani, ESIEA Recherche J. Aze, T. Heitz, Y. Kodratoff, M. Roche, LRI-Universite Paris-Sud TALP-QA System at TREC 2004: Structural and Hierarchical Relaxation Over Semantic Constraints, D. Ferres, S. Kanaan, E. Gonzalez, A. Ageno, H. Rodriguez, M. Surdeanu, J. Turmo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, TALP Research Center Using Clustering and Blade Clusters in the Terabyte Task, G. Attardi, A. Esuli, C. Patel, Universita di Pisa, Italy ISI Novelty Track System for TREC 2004, S.-M. Kim, D. Ravichandran, E. Hovy, University of Southern California, ISI Sheffield University and the TREC 2004 Genomics Track: Query Expansion Using Synonymous Terms, Y. Guo, H. Harkema, R. Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield's TREC 2004 QA Experiments, R. Gaizauskas, M.A. Greenwood, M. Hepple, I. Roberts, H. Saggion, University of Sheffield TREC 2004 Genomics Track Experiments at UTA: The Effects of Primary Keys, Bigram Phrases and Query Expansion on Retrieval Performance, A. Pirkola, University of Tampere (UTA) Conceptual Language Models for Context-Aware Text Retrieval, H. Rode, D. Hiemstra, University of Twente Bangor at TREC 2004: Question Answering Track, T. Clifton, W. Teahan, University of Wales Bangor Approaches to High Accuracy Retrieval: Phrase-Based Search Experiments in the HARD Track, O. Vechtomova, University of Waterloo M. Karamuftuoglu, Bilkent University Domain-Specific Synonym Expansion and Validation for Biomedical Information Retrieval (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2004), S. Buttcher, C.L.A. Clarke, G.V. Cormack, University of Waterloo Exploiting Zone Information, Syntactic Rules, and Informative Terms in Gene Ontology Annotation of Biomedical Documents, B. Settles, M. Craven, University of Wisconsin, Madison Can We Get A Better Retrieval Function From Machine?, W. Fan, W. Xi, E.A. Fox, Virginia Tech L. Wang, University of Michigan York University at TREC 2004: HARD and Genomics Tracks, X. Huang, Y.R. Huang, M. Zhong, M. Wen, York University Appendix Appendix A Cover Common Evaluation Measures Genomics adhoc Runs Genomics adhoc Results Genomics annhiev Runs Genomics annhiev Results Genomics annhi Runs Genomics annhi Results Genomics triage Runs Genomics triage 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 Runs Question Answering Results Robust Runs Robust Results Terabyte Runs Terabyte Results Web Classification Runs Web Classification Results Web Mixed Runs Web Named-Page Results TREC 2004 System Descriptions
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