Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) TREC-5 Proceedings

NIST Special Publication 500-238: The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ABSTRACT PAPERS Overview of the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5) , page 1 E. Voorhees, D. Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology) TREC-5 Interactive Track Report , page 29 P. Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Spanish and Chinese Document Retrieval in TREC-5 , page 57 A. Smeaton (Dublin City University) and R. Wilkinson (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) Report on the TREC-5 Confusion Track , page 65 P. Kantor (Rutgers University) and E. Voorhees (National Institute of Standards and Technology) The TREC-5 Filtering Track , page 75 D. D. Lewis, AT&T Labs--Research NLP Track at TREC-5 , page 97 T. Strzalkowski (GE Corporate Research and Development), K. Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge) The TREC-5 Database Merging Track , page 103 E. Voorhees (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Using Query Zoning and Correlation Within SMART: TREC 5 , page 105 C. Buckley, A. Singhal, M. Mitra (Cornell University) INQUERY at TREC-5 , page 119 J. Allan, J. Callan, B. Croft, L. Ballesteros, J. Broglio, J. Xu, H. Shu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) TREC-5 English and Chinese Retrieval Experiments using PIRCS, page 133 K.L. Kwok and L. Grunfeld (Queens College, CUNY) Okapi at TREC-5, page 143 M.M. Beaulieu, M. Gatford, X. Huang, S.E. Robertson, S. Walker, P. Williams (City University, London) Xerox TREC-5 Site Report: Routing, Filtering, NLP, and Spanish Tracks , page 167 D.A. Hull, G. Grefenstette, B.M. Schultze, E. Gaussier (Rank Xerox Research Center), Hinrich Schutze (Xerox PARC), J. O. Pedersen (Verity Corporation) Term importance, Boolean conjunct training, negative terms, and foreign language retrieval: probabilistic algorithms at TREC-5 , page 181 F. C. Gey, A. Chen, J. He, L. Xu, and J. Meggs (University of California, Berkeley) Berkeley Chinese Information Retrieval at TREC-5: Technical Report , page 191 J. He, J. Xu, A. Chen, J. Meggs, F.C. Gey (University of California, Berkeley) TREC-5 Experiments at Dublin City University: Query Space Reduction, Spanish & Character Shape Encoding , page 197 F. Kelledy and A. F. Smeaton (Dublin City University) The MDS Experiments for TREC5 , page 209 M. Kaszkiel, P. Vines, R. Wilkinson, J. Zobel (MDS at RMIT) SPIDER Retrieval System at TREC-5, page 217 J.P. Ballerini, M. Buchel, R. Domenig, D. Knaus, B. Mateev, E. Mittendorf, P. Schauble, P. Sheridan, M. Wechsler (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)) Ad Hoc Experiments Using EUREKA , page 229 A. Lu, M. Ayoub, J. Dong (Lexis-Nexis) InTEXT Automatic Query Enhancement in TREC-5, page 241 R. Jones, M. Burnett, L. Pape (InTEXT Systems) Experiments on Routing, Filtering and Chinese Text Retrieval in TREC-5, page247 C. Ngo and K.F. Lai (Information Technology Institute, Singapore) Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC-5 , page 257 N. J. Belkin, A. Cabezas, C. Cool, K. Kim, K. B. Ng, S. Park, R. Pressman, S. Rieh, P. Savage, H. Xie (Rutgers University) Interactive Substring Retrieval (MultiText Experiments for TREC-5), page 267 C.L.A. Clarke (University of Toronto), G.V. Cormack (University of Waterloo) V-Twin: A Lightweight Engine for Interactive Use , page 279 D.E. Rose and C. Stevens (Apple Computer, Inc.) Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-5 Report , page 291 T. Strzalkowski, F. Lin, J. Wang (GE Corporate Research & Development) L. Guthrie, J. Leistensnider, J. Wilding (Lockheed Martin Corporation) J. Karlgren, T. Straszheim (Department of Computer Science, New York University) J. Perez-Carballo (School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University) CLARIT Compound Queries and Constraint-Controlled Feedback in TREC-5 Ad-Hoc Experiments, page 315 N. Milic-Frayling, D. Evans (CLARITECH Corporation); X. Tong, C. Zhai (Carnegie Mellon University) Experiments on Chinese Text Indexing -- CLARIT TREC-5 Chinese Track Report, page 335 C. Zhai (Carnegie Mellon University), X. Tong (Carnegie Mellon University), N. Milic-Frayling (CLARITECH Corp.), D.A. Evans (CLARITECH Corp.) OCR Correction and Query Expansion for Retrieval on OCR Data -- CLARIT TREC-5 Confusion Track Report , page 341 C. Zhai (Carnegie Mellon University), X. Tong (Carnegie Mellon University), N. Milic-Frayling (CLARITECH Corp.), D.A. Evans (CLARITECH Corp.) Evaluation of Syntactic Phrase Indexing -- CLARIT NLP Track Report, page 347 C. Zhai (Carnegie Mellon University), X. Tong (Carnegie Mellon University), N. Milic-Frayling (CLARITECH Corp.), D.A. Evans (CLARITECH Corp.) ANU/ACSys TREC-5 Experiments, page 359 D. Hawking, P. Thistlewaite, P. Bailey (Australian National University) Parallel Techniques For Efficient Searching Over Very Large Text Collections, page 377 B. Mamalis, P. Spirakis, B. Tampakas (Computer Technology Institute) Document Retrieval Using The MPS Information Server (A Report on the TREC-5 Experiment) , page 391 F. Schiettecatte (FS Consulting, Inc.) Using Relevance Feedback within the Relational Model for TREC-5 , page 405 D. A. Grossman (Office of Information Technology), J. Reichart (P2000 Technology Inc.), A. Chowdhury, C. Lundquist (George Mason University), D. Holmes (NCR), O. Frieder (Florida Institute of Technology) TREC-5 Ad Hoc Retrieval Using K Nearest-Neighbors Re-Scoring , page 415 E. P. Chan, S. Garcia, S. Roukos (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) The GURU System in TREC-5 , page 427 Y. Ravin (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Mercure02: adhoc and routing tasks , page 429 M. Boughanem (Universite de Limoges) and C. Soule-Dupuy (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) Information Retrieval and Trainable Natural Language Processing , page 433 J. D. Burger, J. S. Aberdeen, D. D. Palmer (The MITRE Corporation) Using Bayesian Networks as Retrieval Engines , page 437 M. Indrawan, D. Ghazfan, B. Srinivasan (Monash University, Australia) CRL English Routing System for TREC-5 , page 445 J. Cowie, Z. Guan (New Mexico State University) New Experiments In Cross-Language Text Retrieval At NMSU's Computing Research Lab , page 447 M. Davis (New Mexico State University) Experiments with TREC using the Open Text Livelink Engine , page 455 L. Fitzpatrick (Open Text Corporation) Data Fusion of Machine-Learning Methods for the TREC5 Routing Task (and other work) , page 477 K. B. Ng (APLab Rutgers University, SCILS), D. Loewenstern (Computer Science Department, Rutgers University and Bell Laboratories), C. Basu (Computer Science Department, Rutgers University and Bellcore), H. Hirsh (Computer Science Department, Rutgers University), P. Kantor (APLab, Rutgers University and SCILS) Report on the TREC-5 Experiment: Data Fusion and Collection Fusion, page 489 J. Savoy, A. Le Calve, D. Vrajitoru (Universite de Neuchatel) Using Relevance to Train a Linear Mixture of Experts , page 503 C.C. Vogt, G.W. Cottrell, R.K. Belew, B.T. Bartell (University of California, San Diego) Report on the Glasgow IR group (glair4) submission , page 517 M. Sanderson, I. Ruthven (University of Glasgow) Metric Multidimensional Information Space , page 521 G.B. Newby (University of Illinois) Corpus Analysis for TREC 5 Query Expansion , page 537 S. Gauch, J. Wang (University of Kansas) Alignment of Spanish and English TREC Topic Descriptions , page 547 D. W. Oard (University of Maryland) An Investigation of Relevance Feedback Using Adaptive Linear and Probabilistic Models , page 555 R.G. Sumner, Jr., W.M. Shaw, Jr. (University of North Carolina) APPENDICES A. TREC-5 Results, page A-1 Adhoc Runs List Adhoc Results Routing Runs List Routing Results Tracks Runs List Spanish Results Chinese Results City University Filtering Results University of Massachusetts, Amherst Filtering Results InText Systems (INTXA) Filtering Results InText Systems (INTXM) Filtering Results University of Illinois Filtering Results Information Technology Institute Filtering Results Queens University, CUNY Filtering Results Rank Xerox Research Center (xerox.f1) Filtering Results Rank Xerox Research Center (xerox.f2) Filtering Results Rank Xerox Research Center (xerox.f3) Filtering Results Database Merge Results City University, London Interactive Results Rutgers University Interactive Results NLP Results Australian National University Confusion Results CLARITECH Corporation (CLCON) Confusion Results CLARITECH Corporation (CLCONF) Confusion Results George Mason University (gmu961) Confusion Results George Mason University (gmu962) Confusion Results Rutgers University Confusion Results Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHFR94N) Confusion Results Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHFR94P) Confusion Results System Features Apple Computer Australian National University City University CLARITECH Corporation Computer Technology Institute (CTI) Dublin City University GE Corporate Research & Development School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, and Lockheed Martin Corporation George Mason University Glasgow University GSI-Erli IBM (Roukos) IBM (Yael) Information Technology Institute InTEXT Systems R&D Labs IRIT TOULOUSE The MITRE Corporation Monash Universtiy New Mexico State Universtiy (Cowie) New Mexico State Universtiy (Davis) Open Text Corporation Queens College, City University of New York MDS at RMIT Rutgers University (Kantor) Rutgers University (Belkin) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego University of Illinois University of Kansas University of Maryland, College Park University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) University of North Carolina University of Waterloo Rank Xerox Research Centre B. Summary Performance Comparisons TREC-2, TREC-3, TREC-4, TREC-5, page B-1 K. Sparck-Jones (University of Cambridge)
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