The Twenty-Seventh Text REtrieval Conference
(TREC 2018) Proceedings



Index of TREC 2018 Papers by Track


CENTRE
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Common Core] [Complex Answer Retreival] [Incident Streams] [News] [Precision Medicine] [Real-time Summarization]
  • PDF file Overview of the TREC 2018 CENTRE Track
    Ian Soboroff - NIST
    Nicola Ferro and Maria Maistro - University of Padua
    Tetsuya Sakai - Waseda University

  • PDF file [Anserini] Anserini at TREC 2018: CENTRE, Common Core, and News Tracks
    Peilin Yang and Jimmy Lin - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario

  • PDF file [ims_unipd] The University of Padua IMS Research Group at CENTRE@TREC 2018
    Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio and Stefano Marchesin - Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy


  • Common Core
    [
    CENTRE] [Complex Answer Retreival] [Incident Streams] [News] [Precision Medicine] [Real-time Summarization]
  • PDF file [Anserini] Anserini at TREC 2018: CENTRE, Common Core, and News Tracks
    Peilin Yang and Jimmy Lin - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario

  • PDF file [FEUP ] FEUP at TREC 2018 Common Core Track - Reranking for Diversity using Hypergraph-of-Entity and Document Profiling
    José Devezas and Sérgio Nunes - INESC TEC & FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal
    Antonio Guillén, Yoan Gutérrez and Rafael Muñoz - DLSI, Universidad de Alicante, Spain

  • PDF file [h2oloo] H2oloo at TREC 2018: Cross-Collection Relevance Transfer for the Common Core Track
    Ruifan Yu, Yuhao Xie, and Jimmy Lin - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • PDF file [JARIR] Query Expansion Based on NLP and Word Embeddings
    Billel Aklouche, Ibrahim Bounhas, and Yahya Slimani - JARIR: Joint group for Artificial Reasoning and Information Retrieval
    Billel Aklouche, Ibrahim Bounhas, and Yahya Slimani - Laboratory of Computer Science for Industrial System (LISI), Carthage University, Tunisia
    Billel Aklouche - National School of Computer Science (ENSI), La Manouba University, Tunisia
    Ibrahim Bounhas - Higher Institute of Documentation (ISD), La Manouba University, Tunisia
    Yahya Slimani - Higher Institute of Multimedia Arts of Manouba (ISAMM), La Manouba University, Tunisia

  • PDF file [MRG_UWaterloo] MRG_UWaterloo Participation in the TREC 2018 Common Core Track
    Maura R. Grossman and Gordon V. Cormack - University of Waterloo

  • PDF file [NOVASearch] Improving Ad Hoc Retrieval With Bag Of Entities
    Gustavo Gonçalves and João Magalhães - NOVA LINCS, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
    Chenyan Xiong and Jamie Callan - Language and Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States of America

  • PDF file [RMIT] RMIT at the 2018 TREC CORE Track
    Rodger Benham, Luke Gallagher, Joel Mackenzie, Binsheng Liu, Xiaolu Lu, Falk Scholer, and J. Shane Culpepper - RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
    Alistair Moffat - The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  • PDF file [UMass] UMass at TREC 2018: CAR, Common Core and News Tracks
    Shahrzad Naseri, John Foley, and James Allan - University of Massachusetts

  • PDF file [UWaterlooMDS] UWaterlooMDS at the TREC 2018 Common Core Track
    Mustafa Abualsaud, Gordon V. Cormack, Nimesh Ghelani, Amira Ghenai, Maura R. Grossman, Shahin Rahbariasl , and Haotian Zhang - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
    Mark D. Smucker - Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo

  • PDF file [Webis] Webis at TREC 2018: Common Core Track
    Alexander Bondarenko and Matthias Hagen - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
    Michael Völske and Benno Stein - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
    Alexander Panchenko and Chris Biemann - Universität Hamburg


  • Complex Answer Retrieval
    [
    CENTRE] [Common Core] [Incident Streams] [News] [Precision Medicine] [Real-time Summarization]
  • PDF file TREC Complex Answer Retrieval Overview
    Laura Dietz - University of New Hampshire
    Ben Gamari - Well-Typed
    Jeff Dalton - University of Glasgow
    Nick Craswell - Microsoft

  • PDF file [CUIS] CUIS Team at TREC 2018 CAR Track
    Xinshi Lin and Wai Lam - The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • PDF file [DWS-UMA] Trec-CAR 2018: A Simple Unsupervised Semantic Query Expansion Model
    Robert Litschko, Federico Nanni, and Goran Glavaš - University of Mannheim, Germany

  • PDF file [GUIR] PACRR Gated Expansion for TREC CAR 2018
    Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder - Information Retrieval Lab, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
    Andrew Yates - Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

  • PDF file [NYU-DL] New York University at TREC 2018 Complex Answer Retrieval Track
    Rodrigo Nogueira - New York University
    Kyunghyun Cho - New York University - Facebook AI Research - CIFAR Global Scholar

  • PDF file [TREMA-UNH] TREMA-UNH at TREC 2018: Complex Answer Retrieval and News Track
    Sumanta Kashyapi, Shubham Chatterjee, Jordan Ramsdell, and Laura Dietz - TREMA lab, University of New Hampshire, U.S.A

  • PDF file [UMass] UMass at TREC 2018: CAR, Common Core and News Tracks
    Shahrzad Naseri, John Foley, and James Allan - University of Massachusetts

  • PDF file [UTDHLTRI] UTD HLTRI at TREC 2018: Complex Answer Retrieval Track
    Ramon Maldonado and Sanda M. Harabagiu - Department of Computer Science, Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A


  • Incident Streams
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    CENTRE] [Common Core] [Complex Answer Retreival] [News] [Precision Medicine] [Real-time Summarization]
  • PDF file [BJUT] BJUT at TREC 2018: Incident Streams Track
    Ning Lu, Hesong Wang, and Zhen Yang - College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology, China

  • PDF file [cbnu] CBNU at TREC 2018 Incident Streams Track
    Won-Gyu Choi, Seung-Hyeon Jo, and Kyung-Soon Lee - Division of Computer Science and Engineering, CAIIT, Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea

  • PDF file [DICE-UPB] DICE @ TREC-IS 2018: Combining Knowledge Graphs and Deep Learning to Identify Crisis-Relevant Tweets
    Hamada M. Zahera, Rricha Jalota, and Ricardo Usbeck - Data Science Group, Paderborn University, Germany

  • PDF file [DLR_DW_BWS] Classification of Incident-related Tweets: Tackling Imbalanced Training Data using Hybrid CNNs and Translation-based Data Augmentation
    Anna Kruspe, Jens Kersten, Matti Wiegmann, and Friederike Klan - German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Data Science, Jena, Germany
    Matti Wiegmann and Benno Stein - Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

  • PDF file [EPIC_MR] EPIC_MR Participation in the TREC 2018 Incidence Stream Track
    Simon W. Y. Chung and K. K. Lo

  • PDF file [IIT-BHU] IIT-BHU In TREC 2018 Incidents Stream Track
    Harshit Mehrotra and Dr. Sukomal Pal - Department Of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India

  • PDF file [KDEIS] Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine based Approach for Classifying Tweets by Information Types at TREC 2018 Incident Streams Task
    Abu Nowshed Chy, Umme Aymun Siddiqua, and Masaki Aono - Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan

  • PDF file [NHK] NHK STRL at TREC 2018 Incident Streams track
    Taro Miyazaki, Kiminobu Makino, Yuka Takei, Hiroki Okamoto and Jun Goto - NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan

  • PDF file [SINAI] SINAI at TREC 2018: Experiments in Incident Streams
    Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Manuel García-Vega and Salud María Jiménez-Zafra - CEATIC, Universidad de Jaén, Spain


  • News
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    CENTRE] [Common Core] [Complex Answer Retreival] [Incident Streams] [Precision Medicine] [Real-time Summarization]
  • PDF file TREC 2018 News Track Overview
    Ian Soboroff, Shudong Huang, Donna Harman - Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

  • PDF file [Anserini] Anserini at TREC 2018: CENTRE, Common Core, and News Tracks
    Peilin Yang and Jimmy Lin - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario

  • PDF file [htwsaar] htw saar @ TREC 2018 News Track
    Agra Bimantara, Michelle Blau, Kevin Engelhardt, Johannes Gerwert, Tobias Gottschalk, Philipp Lukosz, Shenna Piri, Nima Saken Shaft, and Klaus Berberich - htw saar, Goebenstrasse, Saarbruecken, Germany

  • PDF file [signal] Signal at TREC 2018 News Track
    Dwane van der Sluis - University College London and Signal
    Dyaa Albakour and Miguel Martinez - Signal

  • PDF file [SINAI] Using clustering to filter results of an Information Retrieval system
    Pilar Lopez-Ubeda, Manuel Carlos Diaz-Galiano, Maria-Teresa Martın-Valdivia and L. Alfonso Urena-Lopez - Department of Computer Science, Advanced Studies Center in ICT (CEATIC), Universidad de Jaen, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaen, Spain

  • PDF file [TREMA-UNH] TREMA-UNH at TREC 2018: Complex Answer Retrieval and News Track
    Sumanta Kashyapi, Shubham Chatterjee, Jordan Ramsdell, and Laura Dietz - TREMA lab, University of New Hampshire, U.S.A

  • PDF file [udel_fang] Paragraph as Lead - Finding Background Documents for News Articles
    Kuang Lu and Hui Fang - University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA

  • PDF file [UMass] UMass at TREC 2018: CAR, Common Core and News Tracks
    Shahrzad Naseri, John Foley, and James Allan - University of Massachusetts


  • Precision Medicine
    [
    CENTRE] [Common Core] [Complex Answer Retreival] [Incident Streams] [News] [Real-time Summarization]
  • PDF file Overview of the TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Kirk Roberts - School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
    Dina Demner-Fushman - Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
    Ellen M. Voorhees - Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
    William R. Hersh and Steven Bedrick - Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
    Alexander J. Lazar - Departments of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

  • PDF file [Brown] Brown University at TREC Precision Medicine 2018
    Prakrit Baruah, Riya Dulepet, Kyle Qian and Carsten Eickhoff - Brown University, USA

  • PDF file [Cat_Garfield] Team Cat-Garfield at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Xuesi Zhou, Xin Chen, Jian Song, Gang Zhao, and Ji Wu - Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • PDF file [cbnu] CBNU at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Seung-Hyeon Jo, Won-Kyu Choi, and Kyung-Soon Lee - Division of Computer Science and Engineering, CAIIT, Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea

  • PDF file [hpi-dhc] HPI-DHC at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Michel Oleynik - Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
    Erik Faessler - Jena University Language and Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab, Jena, Germany
    Ariane Morassi Sasso, Arpita Kappattanavar, Benjamin Bergner, Harry Freitas da Cruz, Jan-Philipp Sachs, Suparno Datta and Erwin Bottinger - Digital Health Center, Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Germany

  • PDF file [imi_mug] TREC 2018 Precision Medicine - Medical University of Graz
    Pablo López-García - Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria

  • PDF file [ims_unipd] The University of Padua IMS Research Group at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, and Stefano Marchesin - Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

  • PDF file [InfoLabPM] InfoLabPM at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Joã&o Ferreira and Carla Teixeira Lopes - INESC TEC, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  • PDF file [KlickLabs] KlickLabs at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine track
    Lediona Nishani, Maheedhar Kolla, and Gaurav Baruah - Klick Labs, Klick Inc., Toronto, Canada

  • PDF file [MayoNLPTeam] MayoNLPTeam at the TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track: Simple Information Retrieval Approach Is the Best
    Yanshan Wang, Andrew Wen, Sijia Liu, and Hongfang Liu - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

  • PDF file [MedIER] Retrieving scientific abstracts iteratively: MedIER at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Jinghui Liu and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran - School of Information, University of Michigan
    Clair Kronk, Wu-Chen Su, and Danny T.Y. Wu - Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati
    V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran - Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan

  • PDF file [NOVASearch] Learning to rank clinical trials with rule-based criteria
    Gonçalo Araújo, André Mourão, and João Magalhães - NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

  • PDF file [PM_IBI] IBI at TREC 2018: Precision Medicine Track
    Francesco Ronzano, Emilio Centeno, Judith Pérez-Granado and Laura Furlong - Integrative Biomedical Informatics Group, Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute & Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

  • PDF file [Poznan] POZNAN Contribution to TREC PM 2018 (Notebook Paper)
    Artur Cieślewicz - Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
    Jakub Dutkiewicz and Czesław Jędrzejek - IARiII, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

  • PDF file [RSA_DSC] RSA DSc on TREC’s 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Alexandros Bampoulidis and Mihai Lupu - Research Studios Austria, Studio Data Science Vienna, Austria

  • PDF file [SIBTextMining] SIB Text Mining at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Emilie Paschea, Paul van Rijen, Julien Gobeill, Anaïs Mottaz, Luc Mottin, and Patrick Ruch - HES-SO / HEG Geneva, Information Sciences and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

  • PDF file [SINAI] Filtering and reranking using MetaMap named entities recognizer
    Pilar López-Úbeda, Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Maria-Teresa Martín-Valdivia and L. Alfonso Ureña-López - Department of Computer Science, Advanced Studies Center in ICT (CEATIC), Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, Spain

  • PDF file [UCAS] UCAS at TREC-2018 Precision Medicine Track
    Zhi Zheng, Canjia Li, Ben He and Jungang Xu - School of Computer and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • PDF file [udel_fang] Exploring post retrieval techniques for bio-medical domain retrieval
    Yue Wang and Hui Fang - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, USA

  • PDF file [UTDHLTRI] UTD HLTRI at TREC 2018: Precision Medicine Track
    Stuart J. Taylor and Sanda M. Harabagiu - Human Language Technology, Research Institute, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
    Travis R. Goodwin - Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

  • PDF file [UVA_ART] Team UVA_ART at TREC 2018 Precision Medicine Track: Graph-based Concept Expansion and NLP for Document Relevance Boosting
    Sean Mullane, Kasi Vegesana and Valentina Baljak - UVA Health System, University of Virginia, Stacey Hall, Charlottesville, VA


  • Real-time Summarization
    [
    CENTRE] [Common Core] [Complex Answer Retreival] [Incident Streams] [News] [Precision Medicine]
  • PDF file Overview of the TREC 2018 Real-Time Summarization Track
    Royal Sequiera, Luchen Tan, and Jimmy Lin - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

  • PDF file [IRIT] IRIT at TREC Real-Time Summarization 2018
    Abdelhamid Chellal and Mohand Boughanem - Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University of Toulouse, France

  • PDF file [UA-GPLSI] GPLSI at TREC 2018 RTS Track
    Javi Fernández, Fernando Llopis, Yoan Gutiérrez, Patricio Martínez-Barco, José M. Gómez, and Rafael Muñoz - Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante