NIST Special Publication 500-240:
The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 6)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAPERS

• alphabetically, by organization
• alphabetically, by task/track

1. Overview of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6), page 1
   Ellen Voorhees, D. Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
2. Chinese Document Retrieval at TREC-6 , page 25
   R. Wilkinson (CSIRO)
3. Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview, page 31
   P. Schauble, P. Sheridan (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))
4. The TREC-6 Filtering Track: Description and Analysis , page 45
   
5. Figures for this report
   D.A. Hull (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
6. TREC 6 High-Precision Track, page 69
   C. Buckley (SabIR Research Inc.)
7. TREC-6 Interactive Report, page 73
   P. Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
8. TREC-6 1997 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results, page 83
   J. Garofolo, E. Voorhees, V. Stanford (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
   K. Sparck Jones (Cambridge University)
9. Overview of TREC-6 Very Large Collection Track , page 93
   D. Hawking, P. Thistlewaite (Australian National University)
10. Using Clustering and SuperConcepts Within SMART : TREC 6 , page 107
    C. Buckley, J. Walz (SabIR Research Inc.)
    M. Mitra, C. Cardie (Cornell University)
11. Okapi at TREC-6 Automatic ad hoc, VLC, routing, filtering and QSDR , page 125
    S. Walker, S.E. Robertson, M. Boughanem (City University, London)
    G.J.F. Jones (University of Exeter)
    K. Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge)
12. Okapi Chinese text retrieval experiments at TREC-6 , page 137
    X. Huang, S.E. Robertson (City University, London)
13. Interactive Okapi at TREC-6 , page 143
    M.M. Beaulieu, M.J. Gatford (City University, London)
    
14. INQUERY Does Battle With TREC-6 , page 169
    J. Allan, J. Callan, W.B. Croft, L. Ballesteros, D. Byrd, R. Swan, J. Xu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
15. TREC-6 English and Chinese Retrieval Experiments using PIRCS, page 207
    K.L. Kwok, L. Grunfeld, J.H. Xu (Queens College, CUNY)
16. AT&T at TREC-6 , page 215
    A. Singhal (AT&T Labs-Research)
17. AT&T at TREC-6: SDR Track , page 227
    A. Singhal, J. Choi, D. Hindle, F. Pereira (AT&T Labs-Research)
18. Automatic 3-Language Cross-Language Information Retrieval with Latent Semantic Indexing , page 233
    B. Rehder, T.K. Landauer (University of Colorado)
    M.L. Littman (Duke University)
    S. Dumais (Microsoft Research)
19. MDS TREC6 Report , page 241
    M. Fuller, M. Kaszkiel, C.L. Ng, P. Vines, R. Wilkinson, J. Zobel (RMIT)
20. Verity at TREC-6: Out-of-the-Box and Beyond, page 259
    J.O. Pedersen, C. Silverstein, C.C. Vogt (Verity, Inc.)
21. ANU/ACSys TREC-6 Experiments , page 275
    D. Hawking, P. Thistlewaite, N. Craswell (Australian National University)
22. Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval at CMU , page 291
    M.A. Siegler, S.T. Slattery, K. Seymore, R.E. Jones, A.G. Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
    M.J. Witbrock (Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center)
23. Passage-Based Refinement (MultiText Experiements for TREC-6) , page 303
    G.V. Cormack, C.R. Palmer, S.S.L. To (University of Waterloo)
    C.L.A. Clarke (University of Toronto)
24. Mercure at trec6 , page 321
    M. Boughanem (MSI and IRIT/SIG)
    C. Soulé-Dupuy (IRIT/SIG and CERISS)
25. Daimler Benz Research: System and Experiments Routing and Filtering , page 329
    T. Bayer, H. Mogg-Schneider, I. Renz, H. Schäfer (Daimler-Benz AG)
26. Natural Language Information Retrieval TREC-6 Report , page 347
    T. Strzalkowski, F. Lin (GE Corporate Research & Development)
    J. Perez-Carballo (Rutgers University)
27. Using Information Extraction to Improve Document Retrieval , page 367
    J. Bear, D. Israel, J. Petit, D. Martin (SRI International)
28. Interactive information retrieval using term relationship networks, page 379
    J. McDonald, W. Ogden, P. Foltz (New Mexico State University)
29. Free Resources And Advanced Alignment For Cross-Language Text Retrieval, page 385
    M.W. Davis, W.C. Ogden (New Mexico State University)
30. Conceptual Indexing Using Thematic Representation of Texts , page 403
    B.V. Dobrov, N.V. Loukachevitch, T.N. Yudina (Center for Information Research, Russia)
31. CSIRO Routing and Ad-Hoc Experiments at TREC-6 , page 455
    A. Kosmynin (CSIRO)
32. Ad hoc Retrieval Using Thresholds, WSTs for French Mono-lingual Retrieval, Document-at-a-Glance for High Precision and Triphone Windows for Spoken Documents , page 461
    A.F. Smeaton, G. Quinn (Dublin City University) F. Kelledy (Broadcom Éireann Research)
33. Document Retrieval Using The MPS Information Server (A Report on the TREC-6 Experiment) , page 477
    F. Schiettecatte (FS Consulting, Inc.)
34. Expanding Relevance Feedback in the Relational Model, page 489
    C. Lundquist, M.C. McCabe (George Mason University)
    D.O. Holmes (NCR Corporation)
    D.A. Grossman (Office for Research & Development)
    O. Frieder (Florida Institute of Technology)
    
35. Ad Hoc Retrieval with Harris SENTINEL, page 503
    M.M. Knepper, G.J. Cusick, K.L. Fox, O. Frieder, R.A. Killam (Harris Corporation)
36. TREC-6 Ad-Hoc Retrieval , page 511
    M. Franz, S. Roukos (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
37. IBM Search UI Prototype Evaluation at the Interactive Track of TREC-6 , page 517
    B. Schmidt-Wesche, R. Mack, C.L. Cesar (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne)
    D. VanEsselstyn (Columbia University)
38. The GURU System in TREC-6 , page 535
    E.W. Brown, H.A. Chong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
39. Concrete Queries in Specialized Domains: Known Item as Feedback for Query Formulation, page 541
    M.K. Leong (Institute of Systems Science, Singapore)
40. Preliminary Qualitative Analysis of Segmented vs Bigram Indexing in Chinese, page 551
    M.K. Leong, H. Zhou (Institute of Systems Science, Singapore)
41. Experiments on Proximity Based Chinese Text Retrieval in TREC 6, page 559
    K. Rajaraman, K.F. Lai, Y. Changwen (Information Technology Institute)
42. Query Term Expansion based on Paragraphs of the Relevant Documents, page 577
    K. Ishikawa, K. Satoh, A. Okumura (C&C Media Research Labs., NEC Corporation)
43. A Comparison of Boolean and Natural Language Searching for the TREC-6 Interactive Task , page 585
    W. Hersh, B. Day (Oregon Health Sciences University)
44. Rutgers' TREC-6 Interactive Track Experience , page 597
    N.J. Belkin, J. Perez Carballo, S. Lin, S.Y. Park, S.Y. Rieh, P. Savage, C. Sikora, H. Xie (Rutgers University)
    C. Cool (Queens College, CUNY)
    J. Allan (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
45. Application of Logical Analysis of Data to the TREC-6 Routing Task, page 611
    E. Boros, P. Kantor, J. Lee, K. Bor Ng, D. Zhao (Rutgers University)
    
46. The text categorization system TEKLIS at TREC-6, page 619
    T. Bruckner (Siemens AG)
47. ETH TREC-6: Routing, Chinese, Cross-Language and Spoken Document Retrieval, page 623
    B. Mateev, E. Munteanu, P. Sheridan, M. Wechsler, P. Schäuble (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))
48. Phrase Discovery for English and Cross-language Retrieval at TREC 6 , page 637
    F.C. Gey, A. Chen (University of California, Berkeley)
49. Cheshire II at TREC 6: Interactive Probabilistic Retrieval, page 649
    R.R. Larson, J. McDonough (University of California, Berkeley)
50. Fusion Via Linear Combination for the Routing Problem , page 661
    C.C. Vogt, G.W. Cottrell (University of California, San Diego)
51. Short Queries, Natural Language and Spoken Document Retrieval: Experiments at Glasgow University , page 667
    F. Crestani, M. Sanderson, M. Theophylactou, M. Lalmas (University of Glasgow)
52. Document Translation for Cross-Language Text Retrieval at the University of Maryland , page 687
    D.W. Oard, P. Hackett (University of Maryland)
53. Between Terms and Words for European Language IR and Between Words and Bigrams for Chinese IR, page 697
    J.Y. Nie (Université de Montréal)
    J.P. Chevallet, M.F. Bruandet (Laboratoire CLIPS, IMAG)
54. Interactive Retrieval using IRIS: TREC-6 Experiments , page 711
    R.G. Sumner, Jr., K. Yang, R. Akers, W.M. Shaw, Jr. (University of North Carolina)
55. Context-Based Statistical Sub-Spaces, page 735
    G.B. Newby (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
56. The THISL Spoken Document Retrieval System, page 747
    D. Abberley, S. Renals (University of Sheffield, UK)
    G. Cook (University of Cambridge, UK)
    T. Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK and SoftSound, UK)
57. Cross Language Retrieval with the Twenty-One system , page 753
    W. Kraaij, D. Hiemstra (TNO/U-Twente/DFKI/Xerox/U-Tuebingen)
58. Text Retrieval via Semantic Forests , page 761
    P. Schone, J.L. Townsend, C. Olano (U.S. Department of Defense)
    T.H. Crystal (IDA Center for Communications Research)
59. Xerox TREC-6 Site Report: Cross Language Text Retrieval , page 775
    E. Gaussier, G. Grefenstette, D.A. Hull, B.M. Schulze (Xerox Research Centre Europe)

    APPENDICES

    
    

    A. TREC-6 Results Description, page A-1

    • Adhoc Runs List
    • Adhoc Results
    • Routing Runs List
    • Routing Results
    • Chinese Runs List
    • Chinese Results
    • Cross-Lingual Runs List
    • Cross-Lingual Results
    • Filtering Runs List
    • Filtering Results
      
    • High Precision Runs List
    • High Precision Results
    • Interactive Runs List
    • Interactive Results
    • NLP Runs List
    • NLP Results
    • SDR Runs List
    • SDR Results

    B. Summary Performance Comparisons
    TREC-2, TREC-3, TREC-4, TREC-5, TREC-6, page B-1

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    TREC-6 System Descriptions