Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2007 Proceedings

NIST Special Publication: SP 500-274 The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007) Proceedings
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Table of Contents alphabetically, by track alphabetically, by organization Overview Papers Overview of TREC 2007 E. M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Overview of the TREC 2007 Blog Track C. Macdonald, I. Ounis, University of Glasgow I. Soboroff, NIST Overview of the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track P. Bailey, Microsoft, USA A. P. de Vries, CWI, The Netherlands N. Craswell, MSR Cambridge, UK I. Soboroff, NIST TREC 2007 Genomics Track Overview W. Hersh, A. Cohen, L. Ruslen, Oregon Health & Science University P. Roberts, Pfizer Corporation Overview of the TREC 2007 Legal Track S. Tomlinson, Open Text Corporation D. W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park J. R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration P. Thompson, Dartmouth College Million Query Track 2007 Overview J. Allan, B. Carterette, B. Dachev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst J. A. Aslam, V. Pavlu, E. Kanoulas, Northeastern University Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track H.T. Dang, NIST D. Kelly, University of North Carolina J. Lin, University of Maryland, College Park TREC 2007 Spam Track Overview G. Cormack, University of Waterloo Other Papers Passage Relevancy Through Semantic Relatedness L. Tari, P. H. Tu, B. Lumpkin, R. Leaman, G. Gonzalez, C. Baral, Arizona State University Experiments in TREC 2007 Blog Opinion Task at CAS-ICT X. Liao, D. Cao, Y.Wang, W.Liu, S. Tan, H. Xu, X. Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences NLPR in TREC 2007 Blog Track K. Liu, G. Wang, X. Han, J. Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research on Enterprise Track of TREC 2007 H. Shen, G. Chen, H. Chen, Y. Liu, X. Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences Retrieval and Feedback Models for Blog Distillation J. Elsas, J. Arguello, J. Callan, J. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University Stuctured Queries for Legal Search Y. Zhu, L. Zhao, J. Callan, J. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007 N. Schlaefer, J. Ko, J. Betteridge, M. Pathak, E. Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon University G. Sautter, Universitat Karlsruhe Interactive Retrieval Using Weights J. Schuman, S. Bergler, Concordia University Concordia University at the TREC 2007 QA Track M. Razmara, A. Fee, L. Kosseim, Concordia University TREC 2007 Enterprise Track at CSIRO P. Bailey, D. Agrawal, A. Kumar, CSIRO ICT Centre DUTIR at TREC 2007 Blog Track S. Rui, T. Qin, D. Shi, H. Lin, Z. Yang, Dalian University of Technology DUTIR at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track J. Chen, H. Ren, L. Xu, H. Lin, Z. Yang, Dalian University of Technology DUTIR at TREC 2007 Genomics Track Z. Yang, H. Lin, B. Cui, Y. Li, X. Zhang, Dalian University of Technology Dartmouth College at TREC 2007 Legal Track W.-M. Chen, P. Thompson, Dartmouth College Drexel at TREC 2007: Question Answering P. Banerjee, H. Han, Drexel University Information Retrieval and Information Extraction in TREC Genomics 2007 A. Jimeno, P. Pezik, European Bioinformatics Institute Intellexer Question Answering A. Bondarionok, A. Bobkov, L. Sudanova, P. Mazur, T.Samuseva, EffectiveSoft Exegy at TREC 2007 Million Query Track N. Singla, R. S. Indeck, Exegy, Inc. FSC at TREC S. Taylor, O. Montalvo-Huhn, N. Kartha, Fitchburg State College FUB, IASI-CNR and University of Tor Vergata at TREC 2007 Blog Track G. Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni E. Ambrosi, M. Bianchi, C. Gaibisso, IASI "Antonio Ruberti" G. Gambosi, University "Tor Vergata" FDU at TREC 2007: Opinion Retrieval of Blog Track Q. Zhang, B. Wang, L. Wu, X. Huang, Fudan University WIM at TREC 2007 J. Xu, J. Yao, J. Zheng, Q. Sun, J. Niu, Fudan University FDUQA on TREC 2007 QA Track X.Qiu, B. Li, C. Shen, L. Wu, X. Huang, Y. Zhou, Fudan University Lucene and Juru at TREC 2007: 1-Million Queries Track D. Cohen, E. Amitay, D. Carmel, IBM Haifa Research Lab WIDIT in TREC 2007 Blog Track: Combining Lexicon-Based Methods to Detect Opinionated Blogs K. Yang, N. Yu, H. Zhang, Indiana University IIT TREC 2007 Genomics Track: Using Concept-Based Semantics in Context for Genomics Literature Passage Retrieval J. Urbain, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology IITD-IBMIRL System for Question Answering Using Pattern Matching, Semantic Type and Semantic Category Recognition A. Kumar Saxena, G. Viswanath Sambhu, S. Kaushik, Indian Institute of Technology L. Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Research Lab TREC 2007 Blog Track Experiments at Kobe University K. Seki, Y. Kino, S. Sato, K. Uehara, Kobe University Passage Retrieval with Vector Space and Query-Level Aspect Models R. Wan, H. Mamitsuka, Kyoto University V. N. Anh, The University of Melbourne Question Answering with LCC's CHAUCER-2 at TREC 2007 A. Hickl, K. Roberts, B. Rink, J. Bensley, T. Jungen, Y. Shi, J. Williams, Language Computer Corporation TREC 2007 Legal Track Interactive Task: A Report from the LIU Team H. Chu, I. Crisci, E. Cisco-Dalrymple, T. Daley, L. Hoeffner, T. Katz, S. Shebar, C. Sullivan, S. Swammy, M. Weicher, G. Yemini-Halevi, Long Island University Lymba's PowerAnswer 4 in TREC 2007 D. Moldovan, C. Clark, M. Bowden, Lymba Corporation Michigan State University at the 2007 TREC ciQA Task C. Zhang, M. Gerber, T. Baldwin, S. Emelander, J. Y. Chai, R. Jin, Michigan State University CSAIL at TREC 2007 Question Answering B. Katz, S. Felshin, G. Marton, F. Mora, Y. K. Shen, G. Zaccak, A. Ammar, E. Eisner, A. Turgut, L. Brown Westrick, MIT Three Non-Bayesian Methods of Spam Filtration: CRM114 at TREC 2007 M. Kato, Mitsubishi J. Langeway, Mitsubishi and Southern Connecticut State University Y. Wu, Mitsubishi and University of Massachusetts, Amherst W. S. Yerazunis, Mitsubishi Combining Resources to Find Answers to Biomedical Questions D. Demner-Fushman, S. M. Humphrey, N. C. Ide, R. F. Loane, J. G. Mork, M.E.Ruiz, L. H. Smith, W.J. Wilbur, A. R. Aronson, National Library of Medicine P. Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva Opinion Retrieval Experiments Using Generative Models: Experiments for the TREC 2007 Blog Track Y. Arai, K. Eguchi, Kobe University K. Eguchi, National Institute of Informatics The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch at TREC 2007 J. A. Aslam, V. Pavlu, O. Zubaryeva, Northeastern University NTU at TREC 2007 Blog Track K. Hsin-Yih, L. and H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University Experiments with the Negotiated Boolean Queries of the TREC 2007 Legal Discovery Track S. Tomlinson, Open Text Corporation The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track J. Zhu, D. Song, S. R�ger, The Open University The OHSU Biomedical Question Answering System Framework A. M. Cohen, J. Yang, S. Fisher, B. Roark, W. R. Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University Testing an Entity Ranking Function for English Factoid QA K. L. Kwok, N. Dinstl, Queens College TREC 2007 ciQA Track at RMIT and CSIRO M. Wu, A.Turpin, F. Scholer, Y. Tsegay, RMIT University R.Wilkinson, CSIRO ICT Centre RMIT University at the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track M. Wu, F. Scholer, M. Shokouhi, S. Puglisi, H. Ali, RMIT University The Robert Gordon University at the Opinion Retrieval Task of the 2007 TREC Blog Track R. Murkras,N. Wiratunga, R. Lothian, The Robert Gordon University The Alyssa System at TREC QA 2007: Do We Need Blog06? D. Shen, M. Wiegand, A. Merkel, S. Kazalski, S. Hunsicker, J. L. Leidner, D. Klakow, Saarland University Examining Overfitting in Relevance Feedback: Sabir Research at TREC 2007 C. Buckley, Sabir Research, Inc. Research on Enterprise Track of TREC 2007 at SJTU APEX Lab H. Duan, Q. Zhou, Z. Lu, O. Jin, S. Bao, Y. Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Y. Cao, Microsoft Research Asia Feed Distillation Using AdaBoost and Topic Maps W.-L. Lee, A. Lommatzsch, C. Scheel, Technical University Berlin TREC 2007 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology E. W. D. Whittaker, M. H. Heie, J. R. Novak, S. Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology THUIR at TREC 2007: Enterprise Track Y. Fu, Y. Xue, T. Zhu, Y. Liu, M. Zhang, S. Ma, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology Relaxed Online SVMs in the TREC Spam Filtering Track D. Sculley, G. M. Wachman, Tufts University Collection Selection Based on Historical Performance for Efficient Processing C. T. Fallen, G. B. Newby, University of Alaska, Fairbanks UAlbany's ILQUA at TREC 2007 M. Wu, C. Song, Y. Zhan, T. Strzalkowski, University at Albany SUNY Using IR-n for Information Retrieval of Genomics Track M. Pardino, R. M. Terol, P. Mart�nez-Barco, F. Llopis, E. Nogura, University of Alicante Topic Categorization for Relevancy and Opinion Detection G. Zhou, H. Joshi, C. Bayrak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock UALR at TREC-ENT 2007 H. Joshi, S. D. Sudarsan, S. Duttachowdhury, C. Zhang, S. Ramasway, University of Arkansas, Little Rock Query and Document Models for Enterprise Search K. Balog, K. Hofmann, W. Weerkamp, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Bootstrapping Language Associated with Biomedical Entities E. Meij, S. Katrenko, University of Amsterdam Access to Legal Documents: Exact Match, Best Match, and Combinations A. Arampatzis, J. Kamps, M. Kooken, N. Nussbaum, University of Amsterdam Parsimonious Language Models for a Terabyte of Text D. Hiemstra, R. Li, University of Twente J. Kamps, R. Kaptein, University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2007 QA Track K. Hofmann, V. Jijkoun, M. Alam Khalid, J. van Rantwijk, E. Tjong Kim Sang,University of Amsterdam Language Modeling Approaches to Blog Postand Feed Finding B. Ernsting, W. Weerkamp, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam University of Glasgow at TREC 2007: Experiments in Blog and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier D. Hannah, C. Macdonald, J. Peng, B. He, I. Ounis, University of Glasgow Vocabulary-Driven Passage Retrieval for Question-Answering in Genomics J. Gobeill, I. Tbahriti, University and University Hospital of Geneva and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics F. Ehrler, P. Ruch, University and University Hospital of Geneva and University of Geneva TREC Genomics Track at UIC W. Zhou, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago UIC at TREC 2007 Blog Track W. Zhang, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago Language Models for Genomics Information Retrieval: UIUC at TREC 2007 Genomics Track Y. Lu, J. Jiang, X. Ling, X. He, C.-X. Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chanpaign Exploring the Legal Discovery and Enterprise Tracks at the University of Iowa B. Almquist, V. Ha-Thuc, A. K. Sehgal, R. Arens, P. Srinivasan, The University of Iowa University of Lethbridge's Participation in TREC 2007 QA Track Y. Chali, S. R. Joty, University of Lethbridge TREC 2007 ciQA Task: University of Maryland N. Madnani, J. Lin, B. Dorr, University of Maryland, College Park UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers M. D. Smucker, J. Allan, B. Dachev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst UMass at TREC 2007 Blog Distillation Task J. Seo, W. B. Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst CIIR Experiments for TREC Legal 2007 (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) H. Turtle, CogiTech D. Metzler, Yahoo! Research Indri at TREC 2007: Million Query (1MQ) Track X. Yi, J. Allan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Entity-Based Relevance Feedback for Genomic List Answer Retrieval N. Stokes, Y. Li, L. Cavedon, E. Huang, J. Rong, J. Zobel, The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne in the Million Query Track of TREC 2007 W. Webber, V. N. Anh, A. Moffat, The University of Melbourne Evaluation of Query Formulations in the Negotiated Query Refinement Process of Legal e-Discovery: UMKC at TREC 2007 Legal Track F. Zhao, Y. Lee, D. Medhi, University of Missouri, Kansas City Using Interactions to Improve Translation Dictionaries: UNC, Yahoo! and ciQA D. Kelly, X. Fu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill V. Murdock, Yahoo! Research Barcelona IR-Specific Searches at TREC 2007: Genomics & Blog Experiments C. Fautsch, J. Savoy, University of Neuchatel Exploring Traits of Adjectives to Predict Polarity Opinion in Blogs and Semantic Filters in Genomics M. E. Ruiz, University of North Texas Y. Sun, J. Wang, University of Buffalo H. Liu, Georgetown University Medical Center The Pronto QA System at TREC 2007: Harvesting Hyponyms, Using Nominalisation Patterns, and Computing Answer Cardinality J. Bos, E. Guzzetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza" J. R. Curran, University of Sydney On Retrieving Legal Files: Shortening Documents and Weeding Out Garbage S. Kulp, A. Kontostathis, Ursinus College Persuasive, Authorative and Topical Answers for Complex Question Answering L. Azzopardi, University of Glasgow M. Baillie, I. Ruthven, University of Strathclyde University of Texas School of Information at TREC 2007 M. Efron, D. Turnbull, C. Ovalle, University of Texas, Austin University of Twente at the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track: Modeling Relevance Propagation for the Expert Search Task P. Serdyukov, H. Rode, D. Hiemstra, University of Twente Cross Language Information Retrieval for Biomedical Literature M. Schuemie, Erasmus MC D. Trieschnigg, University of Twente W. Kraaij, TNO University of Washington (UW) at Legal TREC Interactive 2007 E. N. Efthimiadis, M. A. Hotchkiss, University of Washington Information School University of Waterloo Participation in the TREC 2007 Spam Track G. V. Cormack, University of Waterloo Complex Interactive Question Answering Enhanced with Wikipedia I. MacKinnon, O. Vechtomova, University of Waterloo Using Subjective Adjectives in Opinion Retrieval from Blogs O. Vechtomova, University of Waterloo Enterprise Search: Identifying Relevant Sentences and Using Them for Query Expansion M. Kolla, O. Vechtomova, University of Waterloo MultiText Legal Experiments at TREC 2007 S. B�ttcher, C. L. A. Clarke, G. V. Cormack, T. R. Lynam, D. R. Cheriton, University of Waterloo CSIR at TREC 2007 Expert Search Task J. Jiang, W. Lu, D. Liu, Wuhan University WHU at Blog Track 2007 H. Zhao, Z. Luo, W. Lu, Wuhan University York University at TREC 2007: Enterprise Document Search Y. Fan, X. Huang, York University, Toronto York University at TREC 2007: Genomics Track X. Huang, D. Sotoudeh-Hosseinii, H. Rohian, X. An, York University Appendix Appendix A Cover Common Evaluation Measures Blog Opinion Runs Blog Opinion Results Blog Polarity Runs Blog Polarity Results Blog Distillation Runs Blog Distillation Results Enterprise Document Search Runs Enterprise Document Search Results Enterprise Expert Runs Enterprise Expert Results Genomics Runs Genomics Results Legal Main Runs Legal Main Results Legal Interactive Runs Legal Interactive Results Legal Relevance Feedback Runs Legal Relevance Feedback Results Million Query Runs Million Query Results QA ciQA-Baseline Runs QA ciQA Baseline Results QA ciQA-Final Runs QA ciQA Final Results QA Main Runs QA Main Results Spam Runs Spam Results TREC 2007 System Descriptions
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