Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
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Organization Name: Microsoft/City University | Run ID: plt8ah4 |
Section 1.0 System Summary and Timing |
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Section 1.1 System Information |
Hardware Model Used for TREC Experiment:16 Node PII cluster System Use:SHARED Total Amount of Hard Disk Storage:144 Gb Total Amount of RAM:6,144 MB Clock Rate of CPU:300 MHz |
Section 1.2 System Comparisons |
Amount of developmental "Software Engineering":ALL List of features that are not present in the system, but would have been beneficial to have: List of features that are present in the system, and impacted its performance, but are not detailed within this form:Parallelism is used. |
Section 2.0 Construction of Indices, Knowledge Bases, and Other Data Structures |
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Length of the stopword list:450 words Type of Stemming:LOVINS Controlled Vocabulary:NO Term weighting:YES
Phrase discovery:NO
Type of Spelling Correction:NONE Manually-Indexed Terms:NO Proper Noun Identification:NO Syntactic Parsing:NO Tokenizer:NO Word Sense Disambiguation:NO Other technique:NO Additional comments:A Simple SGML/HTML parser was used. |
Section 3.0 Statistics on Data Structures Built from TREC Text |
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Section 3.1 First Data Structure |
Structure Type:INVERTED INDEX Type of other data structure used: Brief description of method using other data structure: Total storage used:0.342 Gb Total computer time to build:0.059 hours Automatic process:YES Manual hours required:hours Type of manual labor:NONE Term positions used:NO Only single terms used:NO Concepts (vs. single terms) represented:NO
Type of representation:simple stemmed keyword Auxilary files used:NO
Additional comments: |
Section 3.2 Second Data Structure |
Structure Type:INVERTED INDEX Type of other data structure used: Brief description of method using other data structure: Total storage used:0.324 Gb Total computer time to build:0.81 hours Automatic process:YES Manual hours required:hours Type of manual labor:NONE Term positions used:NO Only single terms used:NO Concepts (vs. single terms) represented:NO
Type of representation:simple stemmed keyword Auxilary files used:NO
Additional comments:This run was done on a single 128mb pentium PII with 9Gb of disk space. |
Section 3.3 Third Data Structure |
Structure Type:INVERTED INDEX Type of other data structure used: Brief description of method using other data structure: Total storage used:0.851 Gb Total computer time to build:0.064 hours Automatic process:YES Manual hours required:hours Type of manual labor:NONE Term positions used:YES Only single terms used:NO Concepts (vs. single terms) represented:NO
Type of representation:simple stemmed keyword Auxilary files used:NO
Additional comments:This is an for extra term weighting run on position data. The sequential index file was also used (see data from other runs). |
Section 4.0 Data Built from Sources Other than the Input Text |
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File type:NONE Domain type:DOMAIN INDEPENDENT Total Storage:Gb Number of Concepts Represented:concepts Type of representation:NONE Automatic or Manual:
Type of Manual Labor used:NONE Additional comments: |
File is:NONE Total Storage:Gb Number of Concepts Represented:concepts Type of representation:NONE Additional comments: |
Section 5.0 Computer Searching |
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Average computer time to search (per query): 0.085 CPU seconds |
Times broken down by component(s): |
Section 5.1 Searching Methods |
Vector space model:NO Probabilistic model:YES Cluster searching:NO N-gram matching:NO Boolean matching:NO Fuzzy logic:NO Free text scanning:NO Neural networks:NO Conceptual graphic matching:NO Other:NO Additional comments:A single processor run was done which yielded an average QP time of 0.401 seconds. A time of 0.89 was recorded on the |
Section 5.2 Factors in Ranking |
Term frequency:YES Inverse document frequency:YES Other term weights:NO Semantic closeness:NO Position in document:YES Syntactic clues:NO Proximity of terms:YES Information theoretic weights:NO Document length:YES Percentage of query terms which match:NO N-gram frequency:NO Word specificity:NO Word sense frequency:NO Cluster distance:NO Other:NO Additional comments: |
Section 6.0 Query Construction |
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Section 6.1 Automatically Built Queries for Ad-hoc Tasks |
Topic fields used: TITLE Average computer time to build query CPU seconds Term weighting (weights based on terms in topics): NO Phrase extraction from topics: NO Syntactic parsing of topics: Word sense disambiguation: Proper noun identification algorithm: Tokenizer: Expansion of queries using previously constructed data structures: Automatic addition of: |
Section 6.2 Manually Constructed Queries for Ad-hoc Tasks |
Topic fields used: Average time to build query? minutes Type of query builder: Tool used to build query: Method used in intial query construction? Total CPU time for all iterations: seconds Clock time from initial construction of query to completion of final query: minutes Average number of iterations: Average number of documents examined per iteration: Minimum number of iterations: Maximum number of iterations: The end of an iteration is determined by: Automatic term reweighting from relevant documents: Automatic query expansion from relevant documents: Other automatic methods: Manual methods used: |
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