TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ABSTRACT
PAPERS
- Overview of the Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8), page 1
E. Voorhees, D. Harman
(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview, page 25
M. Braschler, P. Schäuble (Eurospider Information Technology AG)
C. Peters (Instituto Elaborazione Informazione (CNR))
- The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report, page 35
Figures
D. Hull (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
S. Robertson (Microsoft Research)
- TREC-8 Interactive Track Report, page 57
W. Hersh (Oregon Health Sciences University)
P. Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- The TREC-8 Query Track, page 65
C. Buckley and J. Walz (SabIr Research, Inc.)
- The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report, page 77
E. Voorhees
(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Evaluation, page 83
E. Voorhees, D. Tice
(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story, page 107
J. Garofolo, C. Auzanne, and E. Voorhees (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
This paper was originally published for the RIAO-2000 conference. Due to time pressures, it is also being used as the TREC-8 SDR Track Report originally titled "1999 TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results."
- Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track, page 131
Results
D. Hawking (CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences)
E. Voorhees (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
N. Craswell, P. Bailey (Department of Computer Science, ANU)
- Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8, page 151
S.E. Robertson (Microsoft Research Ltd., UK & City University, London, UK)
S. Walker (Microsoft Research Ltd., UK)
- The Weaver System for Document Retrieval, page 163
A. Berger, J. Lafferty (Carnegie Mellon University)
- LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net, page 175
D. Moldovan, S. Harabagiu, M. Pasca, R. Mihalcea,
R. Goodrum, R. Gîrju, V. Rus (Southern Methodist University)
- Information Extraction Supported Question Answering, page 185
R. Srihari, W. Li (Cymfony, Inc.)
- Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University, page 197
S.E. Johnson, P.C. Woodland (Cambridge University Engineering Department)
P. Jourlin, K. Spärk Jones (Cambridge University Computer Laboratory)
- Oracle at Trec8: A Lexical Approach, page 207
K. Mahesh, J. Kud, P. Dixon (Oracle Corporation)
- TREC-8 Ad-Hoc, Query and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS, page 217
K.L. Kwok, L. Grunfeld, M. Chan (Queens College, CUNY)
- Report on the TREC-8 Experiment: Searching on the Web and in Distributed Collections, page 229
J. Savoy, J. Picard (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
- PLIERS at TREC8, page 241
Appendix
A. MacFarlane, S.E. Robertson
(City University, London, and Microsoft Research Ltd., UK)
J.A. McCann (City University, London)
- Optimization in CLARIT TREC-8 Adaptive Filtering, page 253
C. Zhai, P. Jansen, N. Roma, E. Stoica, D.A. Evans
(CLARITECH Corporation)
- Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results, page 259
D. Eichmann, P. Srinivasan (University of Iowa)
- DSO at TREC-8: A Hybrid Algorithm for the Routing Task, page 267
H.T. Ng, H.T. Ang, W.M. Soon (DSO National Laboratories)
- Fujitsu Laboratories TREC8 Report - Ad hoc, Small Web, and Large Web Track - , page 275
I. Namba, N. Igata (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)
- Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval, page 285
W. Kraaij, R. Pohlmann (TNO-TPD)
D. Hiemstra (University of Twente, CTIT)
- English-German Cross-Language Retrieval for the GIRT Collection - Exploiting a Multilingual Thesaurus, page 301
F.C. Gey, H. Jiang (Univesity of California, Berkeley)
- ACSys TREC-8 Experiments, page 307
D. Hawking (CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences)
P. Bailey, N. Craswell (Department of Computer Science, ANU)
- AT&T at TREC-8, page 317
A. Singhal, S. Abney, M. Bacchiani, M. Collins, D. Hindle, F. Pereira (AT&T Labs)
- CMU Spoken Document Retrieval in Trec-8: Analysis of the role of Term Frequency TF, page 331
M. Siegler, R. Jin, A. Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
- CLARIT TREC-8 Manual Ad-Hoc Experiments, page 335
D.A. Evans, J. Bennett, X. Tong, A. Huettner, C. Zhai, E. Stoica
(CLARITECH Corporation)
- CLARIT TREC-8 CLIR Experiments, page 341
Y. Qu, H. Jin, A.N. Eilerman, E. Stoica, D.A. Evans
(CLARITECH Corporation)
- CLARIT TREC-8 Experiments in Searching Web Data, page 345
J. Bennett, X. Tong, D.A. Evans (CLARITECH Corporation)
- Question-Answering Using Semantic Relation Triples, page 349
K.C. Litkowski (CL Research)
- A Connectivity Analysis Approach to Increasing Precision in Retrieval From Hyperlinked Documents, page 357
C. Gurrin, A.F. Smeaton (Dublin City University)
- The Eurospider Retrieval System and the TREC-8 Cross-Language Track, page 367
M. Braschler, P. Schäuble
(Eurospider Information Technology AG)
M-Y Kan, J. L. Klayans (Columbia University)
- TREC-8 Automatic Ad-Hoc Experiments at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, page 377
C. Carpineto, G. Romano (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
- Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-8 Report, page 381
T. Strzalkowski (GE Research & Development)
J. Perez-Carballo (Rutgers University)
J. Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
A. Hulth (Stockholm University)
P. Tapanainen, T. Lahtinen (Conexor OY, Helsinki)
- Ad hoc, Cross-language and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM, page 391
M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, R.T. Ward
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
- The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8, page 399
J. Prager, D. Radev, E. Brown, A. Coden
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
V. Samn (Columbia University)
- IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision, page 411
M.C. McCabe (Advanced Analytic Tools)
D.O. Holmes (NCR Corporation)
K.L. Alford (U.S. Army)
A. Chowdhury (IIT Research Institute)
D. A. Grossman, O. Frieder, (Illinois Insitute of Technology)
- Automatic Query Feedback using Related Words, page 421
S.M. Rüger (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)
- Two-Step Feature Selection and Neural Network Classification for the TREC-8 Routing, page 425
M. Stricker (Informatique-CDC and ESPCI)
F. Vichot, F. Wolinski (ESPCI)
G. Dreyfus (Informatique-CDC)
- Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks, page 431
M. Boughanem, C. Julien, J. Mothe, C. Soule-Dupuy
(IRIT/SIG)
- The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8, page 445
J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, C. Piatko
(The Johns Hopkins University)
- Novel Query Expansion Technique using Apriori Algorithm, page 453
A. Rungsawang, A. Tangpong, P. Laohawee, T. Khampachua (Kasetsart University)
- Experiments on the TREC-8 Filtering Track, page 457
K. Hoashi, K. Matsumoto, N. Inoue, K. Hashimoto
(KDD R&D Laboratories, Inc.)
- QALC - the Question-Answering program of the Language and Cognition group at LIMSI-CNRS, page 465
O. Ferret, B. Grau, G. Illouz, C. Jacquemin, N. Masson
(LIMSI-CNRS)
- The LIMSI SDR System for TREC-8, page 475
J-L Gauvain, Y. de Kercadio, L. Lamel, G. Adda
(LIMSI-CNRS)
- A Maximum Likelihood Ratio Information Retrieval Model, page 483
K. Ng (Massachusetts Insititute of Technology)
- High Selectivity and Accuracy with READWARE's Automated System of Knowledge Organization, page 493
T. Adi, O.K. Ewell, P. Adi
(Management Information Technologies, Inc.)
- A Sys Called Qanda, page 499
E. Breck, J. Burger, L.Ferro, D. House, M. Light, I. Mani
(The MITRE Corporation)
- Description of Preliminary Results to TREC-8 QA Task, page 507
C-J Lin, H-H Chen (National Taiwan University)
- CRL's TREC-8 Systems Cross-Lingual IR, and Q&A, page 513
B. Ogden, J. Cowie, E. Ludovik, H. Molina-Salgado, S. Nirenburg, N. Sharples, S. Sheremtyeva
(New Mexico State University)
- NTT DATA: Overview of system approach at TREC-8 ad-hoc and question answering, page 523
T. Takaki (NTT Data Corporation)
- Do Batch and User Evaluations Give the Same Results? An Analysis from the TREC-8 Interactive Track, page 531
W. Hersh, A. Turpin, S. Price, D. Kraemer, B. Chan,
L. Sacherek, D. Olson
(Oregon Health Sciences University)
- Structuring and expanding queries in the probabilistic model, page 541
O. Yasushi, M. Hiroko, N. Masumi, H. Sakiko (RICOH Co., Ltd.)
- The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8, page 549
M. Fuller, M. Kaszkiel, S. Kimberley, J. Zobel (RMIT)
C. Ng (RMIT and Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd.)
R. Wilkinson (CSIRO)
M. Wu (RMIT and CSIRO)
- Relevance Feedback versus Local Context Analysis as Term Suggestion Devices: Rutgers' TREC-8 Interactive Track Experience, page 565
N.J. Belkin, J. Head, J. Jeng, D. Kelly, S. Lin, S.Y. Park
(Rutgers University)
C. Cool (Queens College, CUNY)
P. Savage-Knepshield, C. Sikora (Luccent Technologies)
- An Early DiscoWeb Prototype at TREC8, page 575
B.D. Davison, A. Gerasoulis, K. Kleisouris, Y. Lu, Hi-j Seo,
J. Tian, S. Wang, W. Wang, B. Wu
(Rutgers University)
- SMART in TREC 8, page 577
C. Buckley, J. Walz (SabIR Research, Inc.)
- SCAI TREC-8 Experiments, page 583
D-H Shin, Y-H Kim, S. Kim, J-H Eom, H-J Shin, B-T Zhang
(Seoul National University)
- TREC-8 Experiments at SUNY Buffalo, page 591
B. Han, R. Nagarajan, R. Srihari, M. Srikanth
(State University of New York at Buffalo)
- CINDOR Conceptual Interlingua Document Retrieval: TREC-8 Evaluation, page 597
M. Ruiz, A. Diekema, P. Sheridan (MINIS-Textwise Labs)
- CLIR using a Probabilistic Translation Model based on Web Documents, page 607
J-Y Nie (Université de Montréal)
- Berkeley's TREC 8 Interactive Track Entry: Cheshire II and Zprise, page 613
R.R. Larson (University of California, Berkeley)
- TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing, page 623
D.W. Oard, J. Wang (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
D. Lin (University of Manitoda)
I. Soboroff (University of Maryland, Balitmore County, MD)
- INQUERY and TREC-8, page 637
J. Allan, J. Callan, F-F Feng, D. Malin
(University of Massachusetts)
- IRIS at TREC-8, page 645
K. Yang, K.L. Maglaughlin (University of North Carolina)
- Moving More Quickly toward Full Term Relations in Information Space, page 657
G. Newby (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Retrieval Performance and Visual Dispersion of Query Sets, page 669
M. Rorvig (The University of North Texas)
- Ask Me Tomorrow: The NRC and University of Ottawa Question Answering System, page 675
J. Martin (National Research Council)
C. Lankester (University of Ottawa))
- Using Coreference in Question Answering, page 685
T. Morton (University of Pennsylvania)
- Interactive Okapi at Sheffield - TREC-8, page 689
M. Beaulieu, H Fowkes, N. Alemayehu, M. Sanderson
(University of Sheffield)
- The THISL SDR System At TREC-8, page 699
D. Abberley, S. Renals (University of Sheffield)
D. Ellis (ICSI, USA)
T. Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK and SoftSound, UK)
- University of Sheffield TREC-8 Q & A System, page 707
K. Humphreys, R. Gaizauskas, M. Hepple, M. Sanderson (Unviersity of Sheffield)
- University of Surrey Participation in TREC8: Weirdness Indexing for Logical Document Extrapolation and Retrieval (WILDER), page 717
K. Ahmad, L. Gillam, L. Tostevin (University of Surrey)
- The Mirror DBMS at TREC-8, page 725
A.P. de Vries, D. Hiemstra (University of Twente)
- Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8), page 735
G.V. Cormack, C.L.A. Clarke, D.I.E. Kisman (University of Waterloo)
C.R. Palmer (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Xerox TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report, page 743
D. Hull (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
APPENDICES
- A. TREC-8 Results, page A-1
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- Adhoc Runs List, page A-2
- Track/Task Runs Lists, page A-2
- Evaluation Techniques and Measures, page A-17
- Ad hoc task results, page A-24
- Cross-Language Runs List, page A-6
- Cross-Language Results, page A-153
- Cross-Language Alternate Tasks Runs List
- Cross-Language Alternate Tasks Results
- Cross-Language GIRT Task Runs List
- Cross-language track results, page A-153
- Filtering Runs List
- Filtering track results, page A-198
- Interactive Runs List
- Interactive track results
- Query Runs List
- Query track results, page A-234
- Question Answering Runs List
- QA track results, page A-237
- Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Runs List
- Spoken document retrieval track resultspage A-283
- Small Web Runs List
- Small web track results, page A-347
- Large Web Runs List
- Large web track results, page A-391
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B. Summary Performance Comparisons TREC-2 Through TREC-8, page B-1
K. Spärck Jones (University of Cambridge)
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