Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) TREC 2021 Proceedings

The Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2021) Proceedings


Index of TREC 2021 Papers by Track

Conversational Assistance [Clinical Trials] [Deep Learning] [Fair Ranking] [Health Misinformation] [Incident Streams] [News] [Podcast]
Conversational Assistance [ALIBABA] Alibaba DAMO Academy at TREC Clinical Trials 2021: Exploring Embedding-based First-stage Retrieval with TrialMatcher Qiao Jin, Zhengyun Zhao, Zheng Yuan - Tsinghua University Qiao Jin, Chuanqi Tan, Zheng Yuan and Songfang Huang - Alibaba Inc. [CFDA_CLIP] An Exploration Study of Multi-stage Conversational Passage Retrieval: Paraphrase Query Expansion and Multi-view Point-wise Ranking Jia-Huei Ju, Chih-Ting Yeh, Cheng-Wei Lin, Chia-Ying Tsao, Jun-En Ding and Chuan-Ju Wang - Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica Ming-Feng Tsai - Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University [CMU-LTI] Query Rewriting with Expansion and Multi-Turn Entity Graphs for Answer Selection Nour Jedidi, Gustavo Goncalves and Jamie Callan - Language and Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Gustavo Goncalves - NOVA LINCS, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal [CNR] Finding Context through Utterance Dependencies in Search Conversations - Participation of the CNR Team in CAsT 2021 Ida Mele - IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini and Raffaele Perego - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Nicola Tonellotto - University of Pisa, Italy [IITD-DBAI] IITD-DBAI: Multi-Stage Retrieval with Pseudo-Relevance Feedback and Query Reformulation Shivani Choudhary - Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi [IRlab-Amsterdam] IRLab-Amsterdam at TREC 2021 Conversational Assistant Track Antonios Minas Krasakis and Evangelos Kanoulas - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands [MLIA-LIP6] MLIA-LIP6@TREC-CAST2021: Feature augmentation for query recontextualization and passage ranking Nawel Astaouti, Thomas Gerald, Maya Touzari and Laure Soulier - CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, Paris, France Jian-Yun Nie - University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada [RUIR] Radboud University at TREC CAsT 2021 Hideaki Joko, Emma J. Gerritse, Faegheh Hasibi, and Arjen P. de Vries - Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands [TKB48] TKB48 at TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track Yubo Fang - Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Hideo Joho - Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Sumio Fujita - Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tokyo, Japan [UiS] The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Magnus Book, Trond Linjordet, and Vinay Setty - University of Stavanger, Norway [UMD] Full-Collection Search with Passage and Document Evidence: Maryland at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track Xin Qian and Douglas W. Oard - University of Maryland, College Park [WaterlooClarke] WaterlooClarke at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistant Track Xinyi Yan, Charles L. A. Clarke and Negar Arabzadeh -
Clinical Trials [BITEM] SIB Text Mining at TREC Clinical Trials 2021 Deborah Caucheteura, Emilie Pasche, Luc Mottin, Anais Mottaz, Julien Gobeill and Patrick Ruch - HES-SO / HEG Geneva, Information Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland Deborah Caucheteura, Emilie Pasche, Luc Mottin, Anais Mottaz, Julien Gobeill and Patrick Ruch - SIB Text Mining, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland Luc Mottin - Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland [CincyMedIR] CincyMedIR at TREC 2021 Clinical Trial Track Hoang Vu, MSI - Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science Danny T.Y. Wu, PhD - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH [clinical_trials] An approach to relevant clinical trials retrieving Mariia Fedorova - ElmDoc B.V. [CSIROmed] CSIROmed Team Report of TREC 2021 Clinical Trials track: Experiments with BERT Reranking Methods Maciej Rybinski, Vincent Nguyen and Sarvnaz Karimi - CSIRO Data61, Sydney, Australia [DOSSIER] DOSSIER at TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track Wojciech Kusa and Yasin Ghafourian - TU Wien, Vienna, Austria Yasin Ghafourian - Research Studios Austria, Vienna, Austria [GU_BioMed] Clinical Trial Search Using Lucene and UMLS Yanqing Ji - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, USA Yun Tian - Department of Computer Sci. and Electrical Eng., Eastern Washington University, Spokane WA, USA Hao Ying - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA John Tran - Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco at Fresno, Fresno, California, USA [IBMResearch] IBM @ TREC Clinical Trials Track 2021 Laura Biester - Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan Venkata Joopudi and Bharath Dandala - IBM Research [ims_unipd] Filter, Transform, Expand, and Fuse The IMS Unipd at TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Guglielmo Faggioli and Stefano Marchesin - Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy [IRUniDUE] TREC 2021⋆ Clinical Trials Retrieval, Duisburg-Essen University submission Sameh Frihat and Norbert Fuhr - University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany [ITTC-AIMedTech] ITTC @ TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track Hung-Thinh Truong, Yulia Otmakhova, Timothy Baldwin, Jey Han Lau, Trevor Cohn and Karin Verspoor - The University of Melbourne Rahmad Mahendra, Karin Verspoor, Lawrence Cavedon, Damiano Spina and Karin Verspoor - RMIT University [NTU_NLP] Hybrid Re-ranking for Biomedical Information Retrieval at the TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track Ming-Xuan Shi, Tsung-Hsuan Pan and Hsin-Hsi Chen - Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Hen-Hsen Huang - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan [POZNAN] Pozna´n Contribution to TREC Clinical Trials 2021⋆ Jakub Dutkiewicz and Czeslaw Jedrzejek - Faculty of Computing, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland [TDMINER] The Application of Traditional IE as a Non-traditional Method in an IR Task: TDMINER at 2021 TREC Clinical Trials Chengyi Zheng - Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA [uni_pais_vasco] TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Submission for Universidad del País Vasco Jordan Koontz - Ixa (UPV/EHU) Maite Oronoz and Alicia Pérez - HiTZ (UPV/EHU) [UNIMIB] UNIMIB at TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track Georgios Peikos, Oscar Espitia, and Gabriella Pasi - Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (IKR3) Lab, Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy [UNTIIA] UNTIIA Lab at TREC 2021 - Clinical Trial* Huyen Nguyen, Haihua Chen, Bhanu Prasad and Junhua Ding - Intelligent Information Access Laboratory, University of North Texas Huyen Nguyen, Haihua Chen, Bhanu Prasad, Junhua Ding, Jiangping Chen and Ana Cleveland - Department of Information Science, University of North Texas Huanhuan Zhao - Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas at El Paso [wispermedtxt] WisPerMed Text at TREC Clinical Trials Track 2021 Henning Schafer - Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Germany Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir and Christoph M. Friedrich - Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund (FHDO), Dortmund, Germany Wolfgang Galetzka and Christoph M. Friedrich - Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (IMIBE), University Hospital Essen, Germany Marie Bexte - Language Technology Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Deep Learning [CERTH_ITI_M4D] M4D-MKLab/ITI-CERTH Participation in TREC Deep Learning Track 2021 Alexandros-Michail Koufakis, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris - Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece [CIP] CIP at TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track Xuanang Chen, Ben He and Yingfei Sun - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Xuanang Chen, Ben He and Le Sun - Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China [IHSM] QUALITY AND COST TRADE-OFFS IN PASSAGE RE-RANKING TASK Pavel Podberezko, Vsevolod Mitskevich, Raman Makouski, Pavel Goncharov, Andrei Khobnia, Nikolai Bushkov and Marina Chernyshevich - IHS Markit [L3S] L3S at the TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track Jurek Leonhardt and Avishek Anand - L3S Research Center,Hannover, Germany Koustav Rudra - Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India [NLE] NAVER LABS EUROPE (SPLADE) @ TREC DEEP LEARNING 2021 Carlos Lassance, Arnaud Sors and Stephane Clinchant - Naver Labs Europe, France Thibault Formal - Naver Labs Europe and Sorbonne Universite, ISIR, France Benjamin Piwowarski - Sorbonne Universite, ISIR, CNRS, France [TU_Vienna] TU Wien at TREC DL and Podcast 2021: Simple Compression for Dense Retrieval Sebastian Hofstatter, Mete Sertkan and Allan Hanbury - TU Wien [UAmsterdam] Recall Aspects of Transformers for Text Ranking David Rau and Jaap Kamps - University of Amsterdam [uogTr] University of Glasgow Terrier Team at the TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track Xiao Wang, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis - University of Glasgow, UK [Webis] Webis at TREC 2021: Deep Learning, Health Misinformation, and Podcasts Tracks Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Frobe, Sebastian Gunther and Mahias Hagen - Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg Marcel Gohsen, Johannes Kiesel, Michael Volske and Benno Stein - Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar Jakob Schwerter, Shahbaz Syed and Martin Pohast - Leipzig University [yorku] York University at TREC 2021: Deep Learning Track Yizheng Huang and Jimmy Huang - Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Research Lab, York University, Toronto, Canada
Fair Ranking [IRlab-Amsterdam] The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2021 Fair Ranking Track Ali Vardasbi, Gabriel Bénédict, Shashank Gupta, Maria Heuss, Pooya Khandel, Ming Li and Fatemeh Sarvi - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands [RMIT-IR] RMIT at TREC 2021 Fair Ranking Track SACHIN PATHIYAN CHERUMANAL, DAMIANO SPINA and FALK SCHOLER - RMIT University, Australia W. BRUCE CROFT - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA [TKB48] TKB48 at TREC 2021 Fairness Ranking Track Jin Zhuoqi - Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Hideo Joho - Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Sumio Fujita - Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tokyo, Japan [uogTr] University of Glasgow Terrier Team at the TREC 2021 Fair Ranking Track Thomas Jaenich, Graham McDonald and Iadh Ounis - University of Glasgow, UK
Health Misinformation [CiTIUS] CiTIUS at the TREC 2021 Health Misinformation Track Marcos Fernandez-Pichel, Manuel Prada-Corral, David E. Losada, Juan C. Pichel and Pablo Gamallo - Centro Singular de Investigacion en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain [DigiLab] DS4DH at TREC Health Misinformation 2021: Multi-Dimensional Ranking Models with Transfer Learning and Rank Fusion Boya Zhang, Fernando Jaume-Santero and Douglas Teodoro - Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva Nona Naderi and Douglas Teodoro - HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Nona Naderi and Douglas Teodoro - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [UPV] UPV at TREC Health Misinformation Track 2021 Ranking with SBERT and Quality Estimators Ipek Baris Schlicht, Angel Felipe Magnossao de Paula and Paolo Rosso - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain [UwaterlooMDS] UWaterlooMDS at the TREC 2021 Health Misinformation Track MUSTAFA ABUALSAUD, KAMYAR GHAJAR, LINH NHI PHAN MINH and DAKE ZHANG - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo IRENE XIANGYI CHEN - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo MARK D. SMUCKER and AMIR VAKILI TAHAMI - Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo [Webis] Webis at TREC 2021: Deep Learning, Health Misinformation, and Podcasts Tracks Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Frobe, Sebastian Gunther and Mahias Hagen - Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg Marcel Gohsen, Johannes Kiesel, Michael Volske and Benno Stein - Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar Jakob Schwerter, Shahbaz Syed and Martin Pohast - Leipzig University
Incident Streams [L3i_Rochelle] Transformer-based Methods with #Entities for Detecting Emergency Events on Social Media Emanuela Boros, Nhu Khoa Nguyen, Mickael Coustaty and Antoine Doucet - University of La Rochelle, L3i, La Rochelle, France Gael Lejeune - Sorbonne University, STIH/CERES, Paris, France [njit] Method Comparison for Crisis Pipelines Shivam Sharma and Cody Buntain - New Jersey Institute of Technology [SienaCLTeam] Siena’s Incident Stream System SISS Ting Liu, Sharon Gower Small, Patrick Baumgardner, Lydia Cartwright, Michael Coppola and Samuil Orlioglu - Siena College Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Loudonville, NY [UCD-CS] UCD-CS at TREC 2021 Incident Streams Track Congcong Wang and David Lillis - School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland [uogTr] University of Glasgow Terrier Team (uogTr) at the TREC 2021 Incident Streams Track Alexander J. Hepburn and Richard McCreadie - University of Glasgow, UK
News [FUH] University of Hagen @ TREC2021 News Track Stefan Wagenpfeil and Matthias Hemmje - Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Hagen, Germany Paul Mc Kevitt - Academy for International Science & Research (AISR), Derry/Londonderry, Ireland [IR-Cologne] IRCologne at TREC 2021 News Track Relation-based re-ranking for background linking BJORN ENGELMANN and PHILIPP SCHAER - TH Koln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany [L3i_Rochelle] Elastic Embedded Background Linking for News Articles with Keywords, Entities and Events Luis Adrian Cabrera-Diego, Emanuela Boros and Antoine Doucet - University of La Rochelle, L3i, La Rochelle, France [middlebury] Middlebury at TREC News ’21 Exploring Learning to Rank Model Variants Culton Koster and John Foley - Department of Computer Science, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT [QU] bigIR at TREC 2021: Adopting Transfer Learning for News Background Linking Marwa Essam and Tamer Elsayed - Computer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar [SU-NLP] SU-NLP at TREC NEWS 2021 Kenan Fayoumi and Reyyan Yeniterzi - Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey [TKB48] TKB48 at TREC 2021 News Track Zhang Lirong - Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Hideo Joho - Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Sumio Fujita - Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tokyo, Japan [Waterloo_Cormack] Semantic Search for Background Linking in News Articles Udhav Sethi and Anup Anand Deshmukh - University of Waterloo
Podcast [PoliTO] PoliTO at TREC 2021 Podcast Summarization Track Lorenzo Vaiani, Moreno La Quatra, Luca Cagliero and Paolo Garza - Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino, Italy [TU_Vienna] TU Wien at TREC DL and Podcast 2021: Simple Compression for Dense Retrieval Sebastian Hofstatter, Mete Sertkan and Allan Hanbury - TU Wien [Unicamp] Multilingual Podcast Summarization using Longformers Edgar Tanaka, Ann Clifton and Md. Iftekhar Tanveer - Spotify [Webis] Webis at TREC 2021: Deep Learning, Health Misinformation, and Podcasts Tracks Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Frobe, Sebastian Gunther and Mahias Hagen - Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg Marcel Gohsen, Johannes Kiesel, Michael Volske and Benno Stein - Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar Jakob Schwerter, Shahbaz Syed and Martin Pohast - Leipzig University

The Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2021) Proceedings

Index of TREC 2021 Papers by Track

The Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference
(TREC 2021) Proceedings