TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ABSTRACT
PAPERS
Overview of the Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7), page 1
E. Voorhees, D. Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview, page 25
M. Braschler (Eurospider Information Technology)
J. Krause (Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften)
C. Peters (Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione (IEI-CNR))
P. Schäuble (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))
The TREC-7 Filtering Track: Description and Analysis, page 33
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D.A. Hull (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
The TREC 7 High Precision Track, page 57
C. Buckley (SabIR Research, Inc.)
TREC-7 Interactive Track Report, page 65
P. Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
The TREC 7 Query Track, page 73
C. Buckley (SabIR Research, Inc.)
1998 TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results, page 79
J. Garofolo, E. Voorhees, C. Auzanne, V. Stanford, B. Lund
(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Overview of TREC-7 Very Large Collection Track, page 91
D. Hawking (CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences)
N. Craswell, P. Thistlewaite (Australian National University)
Topic by Topic Performance of Information Retrieval Systems, page 105
W. Liggett (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Audio-Indexing For Broadcast News, page 115
S. Dharanipragada, M. Franz, S. Roukos
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Deriving Very Short Queries for High Precision and Recall (MultiText Experiments for TREC-7), page 121
G.V. Cormack, C.R. Palmer, M. Van Biesbrouck
(University of Waterloo)
C.L.A. Clarke (University of Toronto)
BBN at TREC7: Using Hidden Markov Models for Information Retrieval, page 133
D.R.H. Miller, T. Leek, R.M. Schwartz (BBN Technologies)
Effectiveness of Clustering in Ad-Hoc Retrieval, page 143
D.A. Evans, A. Huettner, X. Tong, P. Jansen, J. Bennett
(CLARITECH Corporation)
Threshold Calibration in CLARIT Adaptive Filtering, page 149
C. Zhai, P. Jansen, E. Stoica, N. Grot, D.A. Evans
(CLARITECH Corporation)
Ad hoc and Multilingual Information Retrieval at IBM, page 157
M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, S. Roukos
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
TREC-7 Evaluation of Conceptual Interlingua Document Retrieval (CINDOR) in English and French, page 169
A. Diekema, F. Oroumchian, P. Sheridan, E.D. Liddy
(TextWise LLC)
Retrieval Of Broadcast News Documents With the THISL System, page 181
D. Abberley, S. Renals (University of Sheffield, UK)
G. Cook (University of Cambridge, UK)
T. Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK and SoftSound, UK)
Spoken Document Retrieval For TREC-7 At Cambridge University, page 191
S.E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, G.L. Moore, K. Spärck Jones,
P.C. Woodland (Cambridge University)
INQUERY and TREC-7, page 201
J. Allan, J. Callan, M. Sanderson, J. Xu
(University of Massachusetts)
S. Wegmann (Dragon Systems, Inc.)
Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-7 Report, page 217
T. Strzalkowski, G. Stein, G. Bowden Wise
(GE Research & Development)
J. Perez-Carballo (Rutgers University)
P. Tapananinen, T. Jarvinen, A. Voutilainen
(University of Helsinki)
J. Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Twenty-One at TREC7: Ad-hoc and Cross-Language track, page 227
D. Hiemstra (University of Twente, CTIT)
W. Kraaij (TNO-TPD)
AT&T at TREC-7, page 239
A. Singhal, J. Choi, D. Hindle, D.D. Lewis, F. Pereira
(AT&T Labs-Research)
Okapi at TREC-7: automatic ad hoc, filtering, VLC and interactive, page 253
S.E. Robertson
(Microsoft Research Ltd and City University, London)
S. Walker (Mircosoft Research Ltd)
M. Beaulieu (University of Sheffield)
Cluster-Based Adaptive and Batch Filtering, page 265
D. Eichmann, M. Ruiz, P. Srinivasan
(University of Iowa)
Rutgers' TREC-7 Interactive Track Experience, page 275
N.J. Belkin, J. Perez Carballo, D. Kelly, S. Lin,
S.Y. Park, S.Y. Rieh, P. Savage-Knepshield, C. Sikora
(Rutgers University)
C. Cool (Queens College, CUNY)
SMART High Precision: TREC 7, page 285
C. Buckley, J. Walz (SabIR Research)
M. Mitra, C. Cardie (Cornell University)
ACSys TREC-7 Experiments, page 299
D. Hawking (CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences)
N. Craswell, P. Thistlewaite (Australian National University)
Applying SIGMA to the TREC-7 Filtering Track, page 313
G.J. Karakoulas (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce)
I.A. Ferguson (Active On-line Systems Ltd.)
Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval at CMU, page 319
M. Siegler, A. Berger, A. Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
M. Witbrock (Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center)
PLIERS AT VLC2, page 327
A. MacFarlane, J.A. McCann (City University, London)
S.E. Robertson (City University, London and Microsoft Research Ltd.)
EMIR at the CLIR track of TREC7, page 337
F. Bisson, J. Charron, C. Fluhr, D. Schmit
(Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique)
TREC-7 Ad-Hoc, High Precision and Filtering Experiments using PIRCS, page 343
K.L. Kwok, L. Grunfeld, M. Chan, N. Dinstl, C. Cool
(Queens College, CUNY)
Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval at DERA-SRU, page 353
P. Nowell (DERA Malvern)
Information term selection for automatic query expansion, page 363
C. Carpineto, G. Romano (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome)
R. De Mori (University of Avignon)
Document Retrieval Using The MPS Information Server (A Report on the TREC-7 Experiment), page 371
F. Schiettecatte (FS Consulting, Inc.)
Fujitsu Laboratories TREC7 Report, page 383
I. Namba, N. Igata, H. Horai, K. Nitta, K. Matsui
(Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)
Information Retrieval and Visualization using SENTINEL, page 393
M.M. Knepper, R. Killam, K.L. Fox (Harris Corporation)
O. Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Use of Query Concepts and Information Extraction to Improve Information Retrieval Effectiveness, page 399
D.O. Holmes (NCR Corporation),
D.A. Grossman (US Government),
O. Frieder, A. Chowdhury (Illinois Institute of Technology),
M.C. McCabe (Advanced Analytic Tools)
Feature Reduction for Information Retrieval, page 409
S.M. Rüger
(Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)
Mercure at trec7, page 413
M. Boughanem, T. Dkaki, J. Mothe, C. Soulé-Dupuy (IRIT/SIG)
Indexing Using Both N-Grams and Words, page 419
J. Mayfield, P. McNamee (The Johns Hopkins University)
DSIR: the First TREC-7 Attempt, page 425
A. Rungsawang (Kasetsart University)
TREC-7 Experiments: Query Expansion Method Based on Word Contribution, page 433
K. Hoashi, K. Matsumoto, N. Inoue, K. Hashimoto
(KDD R&D Laboratories, Inc.)
Query Expansion and Classification of Retrieved Documents, page 443
C. de Loupy
(Laboratoire d'Infomatique d'Avignon (LIA) and Bertin & Cie)
P. Bellot, M. El-Bèze (Laboratoire d'Infomatique d'Avignon (LIA))
P.-F. Marteau (Bertin & Cie)
Experiments in Query Processing at LEXIS-NEXIS for TREC-7, page 451
A.G. Rao, T. Humphrey, A. Parhizgar, C. Wilson, D. Pliske
(LEXIS-NEXIS)
Readware® Text Analysis and Retrieval in TREC 7, page 461
T. Adi, O.K. Ewell, P. Adi
(Management Information Technologies, Inc.)
TREC 7 Ad Hoc, Speech, and Interactive tracks at MDS/CSIRO, page 465
M. Fuller, M. Kaszkiel, C. Ng, M. Wu, J. Zobel (RMIT)
D. Kim, J. Robertson, R. Wilkinson (CSIRO)
Ad Hoc Retrieval Experiments Using WordNet and Automatically Constructed Thesauri, page 475
R. Mandala, T. Tokunaga, H. Tanaka, A. Okumura, K. Satoh
(NEC Corporation and Tokyo Institute of Technology)
NTT DATA at TREC-7: system approach for ad-hoc and filtering, page 481
H. Nakajima, T. Takaki, T. Hirao, A. Kitauchi
(NTT DATA Corporation)
A Large-Scale Comparison of Boolean vs. Natural Language Searching for the TREC-7 Interactive Track, page 491
W. Hersh, S. Price, D. Kraemer, B. Chan, L. Sacherek, D. Olson
(Oregon Health Sciences University)
A Two-Stage Retrieval Model for the TREC-7 Ad Hoc Task, page 501
D.-H. Shin, B.-T. Zhang (Seoul National University)
SPIDER Retrieval System at TREC7, page 509
M. Braschler, M. Wechsler (Eurospider Information Technology),
B. Mateev, E. Mittendorf, P. Schäuble
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))
TNO TREC7 site report: SDR and filtering, page 519
R. Ekkelenkamp, W. Kraaij (TNO-TPD)
D. van Leeuwen (TNO-HFRI)
Manual Queries and Machine Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval and Interactive Retrieval with Cheshire II at TREC-7, page 527
F.C. Gey, H. Jiang, A. Chen (UC DATA)
R.R. Larson, (University of California at Berkeley)
TREC-7 Experiments at the University of Maryland, page 541
D.W. Oard (University of Maryland, College Park)
TREC-7 CLIR using a Probabilistic Translation Model, page 547
J.-Y. Nie (Université de Montréal)
IRIS at TREC-7, page 555
K. Yang, K. Maglaughlin, L. Meho, R.G. Sumner, Jr.
(University of North Carolina)
Information Space Gets Normal, page 567
G.B. Newby (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ClickIR: Text Retrieval using a Dynamic Hypertext Interface, page 573
R.C. Bodner, M.H. Chignell (University of Toronto)
Text Retrieval via Semantic Forests: TREC7, page 583
G.D. Henderson, P. Schone, T.H. Crystal
(U.S. Department of Defense)
Document thumbnail visualization for rapid relevance judgments: When do they pay off?
W. Ogden, M. Davis, S. Rice
(New Mexico State University)
APPENDICES
- A.
TREC-7 Results Description, page A-1
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Adhoc Runs List, page A-2
- Adhoc Results, page A-20
Cross-Language Runs List, page A-5
- Cross-Language Results, page A-123
Filtering Runs List, page A-6
- Filtering Results, page A-150
High Precision Runs List, page A-8
- High Precision Results, page A-155
Interactive Runs List, page A-9
Query Runs List, page A-10
- Query Results, page A-162
Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Runs List, page A-11
- Spoken Document Retrieval Results, page A-163
- B.
Summary Performance Comparisons TREC-2 Through TREC-7, page B-1
K. Spärck Jones (University of Cambridge)
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