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Elicitation and use of relevance feedback information
2006
Information Processing & Management
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The paper presents two approaches to interactively refining user search formulations and their evaluation in the new High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track of TREC-12. ...
The TREC results show that one of the methods is an effective means of interactive query expansion and yields significant performance improvements. ...
University of Maryland (He & Demner-Fushman, 2004 ) experimented with using either the most informative headline among all documents in each cluster, or merging the headlines of documents in a cluster ...
doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2004.10.006
fatcat:vwzaw4chgfgoxosmjh4owczzdu
Large Scale Evaluations of Multimedia Information Retrieval: The TRECVid Experience
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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In this presentation and extended abstract we are primarily concerned with MMIR as applied to information in digital video format. ...
Information Retrieval is a supporting technique which underpins a broad range of content-based applications including retrieval, filtering, summarisation, browsing, classification, clustering, automatic ...
The author is partly-supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant 03/IN.3/I361. ...
doi:10.1007/11526346_2
fatcat:3on37iw4ergejarzhsxljbblhi
Improving novelty detection for general topics using sentence level information patterns
2006
Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '06
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TREC novelty tracks. ...
Then we elaborate a thorough analysis of sentence level information patterns on data from the TREC novelty tracks, including sentence lengths, named entities, sentence level opinion patterns. ...
Experiments were carried out on the data from the TREC novelty tracks 2002-2004. ...
doi:10.1145/1183614.1183652
dblp:conf/cikm/LiC06
fatcat:l2iut7pxnrcz3lgbqlv2qr3w5y
Evaluating Retrieval Models through Histogram Analysis
2015
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - SIGIR '15
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an analysis of ten TREC tasks from the past ten years. ...
We present a novel approach for efficiently evaluating the performance of retrieval models and introduce two evaluation metrics: Distributional Overlap (DO), which compares the clustering of scores of ...
Ad-Hoc Retrieval Tasks We conducted experiments using query sets from 4 previous TREC Web Tracks (2009-2012). ...
doi:10.1145/2766462.2767821
dblp:conf/sigir/KrstovskiSK15
fatcat:lmehl5ve65b4nom6pn6hxthc2m
TREC genomics special issue overview
2008
Information retrieval (Boston)
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Acknowledgements The TREC Genomics Track was supported by NSF Grant ITR-0325160. The track also appreciated the help of Lori Buckland and others at NIST for help in its administration. ...
We were also very grateful to the National Library of Medicine, Highwire Press, and the Mouse Genome Informatics Project for providing data for use in the track. ...
The track also drew upon experience in passage retrieval from the previous TREC High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) Track (Allan 2003 (Allan , 2004 . ...
doi:10.1007/s10791-008-9076-6
fatcat:e36xnnbro5eqvkmmm7x4rxj2mu
What makes a query difficult?
2006
Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '06
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In the absence of knowledge about one of the model components, the model is still useful by approximating the missing component based on the other components. ...
One of the tasks in the 2004 and 2005 TREC Robust tracks was to estimate the relative difficulty of each topic. ...
In the Robust tracks of 2003 and 2004, systems were challenged by 50 old TREC topics found to be "difficult" for most systems over the years. ...
doi:10.1145/1148170.1148238
dblp:conf/sigir/CarmelYDP06
fatcat:k5y2rmgxbzarfb2pqdj2dxjaoq
An information-pattern-based approach to novelty detection
2008
Information Processing & Management
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Experiments on novelty detection on 15 data from the TREC 2002, 2003 and 2004 novelty tracks show that the proposed approach significantly improves the 16 performance of novelty detection in terms of precision ...
Second, a thorough analysis of sen-12 tence level information patterns is elaborated using data from the TREC novelty tracks, including sentence lengths, named 13 entities (NEs), and sentence level opinion ...
Question formulation
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There are 49 queries in the TREC 2002 novelty track, 50 queries in the TREC 2003 novelty track and 50
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queries in the TREC 2004 novelty track. ...
doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.09.013
fatcat:ko2fvnhmbnek5hbm5xpmdgmmrm
Text similarity: an alternative way to search MEDLINE
2006
Bioinformatics
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A variety of other derivative systems and visualization tools provides the user with an enhanced experience and additional capabilities. ...
Several text similarity search algorithms, both standard and novel, were implemented and tested in order to determine which obtained the best results in information retrieval exercises. ...
Results from 150 queries from TREC routing 2, 3 and Hard Track 2003, calculated with TREC evaluation tool. ...
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl388
pmid:16926219
fatcat:gl6usfhjqnbw7f7jof352av65q
Less is more
2006
Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '06
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While doing so may be computationally intractable, we show that a simple greedy optimization algorithm that approximately optimizes the given objectives produces rankings for TREC queries that outperform ...
However, there are many scenarios in which that ranking does not optimize for the user's information need. ...
Robust Track Experiments We turn our attention to the TREC 2004 robust track. ...
doi:10.1145/1148170.1148245
dblp:conf/sigir/ChenK06
fatcat:rm72qke75zfqlntkfogkqdrry4
Query Expansion for Language Modeling Using Sentence Similarities
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2011
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Additional experiments on the challenging search topics of the TREC-2004 Robust track show that the new method is able to improve MAP by 5.7% without the use of external resources and query hardness prediction ...
IR experiments on the TREC ad-hoc retrieval test collections using the sentence based query expansion (SBQE) show a significant increase in Mean Average Precision (MAP) compared to baselines obtained using ...
The following subsection aims to investigate the effectiveness of SBQE on the hard topics of the TREC 2004 Robust Track. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21353-3_6
fatcat:bzyiwhshereb5ck3vmha6kppie
Solr Integration in the Anserini Information Retrieval Toolkit
2019
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - SIGIR'19
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In this demonstration, we examine different architectures for Solr integration in order to address two current limitations of the system: the lack of an interactive search interface and support for distributed ...
Two architectures are explored: In the first approach, Anserini is used as a frontend to index directly into a running Solr instance. ...
This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Fund, and the Ontario Research Fund. ...
doi:10.1145/3331184.3331401
dblp:conf/sigir/ClancyERL19
fatcat:j6afggtnf5fajlvehbd5olc7n4
Novelty detection based on sentence level patterns
2005
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '05
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An analysis of patterns in sentences was performed with data from the TREC 2002 novelty track and experiments on novelty detection were carried out on data from the TREC 2003 and 2004 novelty tracks. ...
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. ...
the TREC 2003 novelty track and 50 queries in the TREC 2004 novelty track. ...
doi:10.1145/1099554.1099734
dblp:conf/cikm/LiC05a
fatcat:bwa7oozkzvfunj6qr3kix5jqiu
When will information retrieval be "good enough"?
2005
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '05
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, but more experiments are needed to examine the area around that threshold closely. ...
Subjects performed the task by using these ranked lists to guide their labeling of answer passages in the retrieved articles. ...
We adopted the binary preference ("bpref") measure that is used for passage retrieval evaluation in the TREC 2004 HARD track [2] , because it has been shown both to track mean average precision in ranking ...
doi:10.1145/1076034.1076109
dblp:conf/sigir/AllanCL05
fatcat:gdglx4yupnadtj5cr5qffuydhm
Where do good query terms come from?
2007
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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This explains why, in the HARD track of TREC 2005, the overall conclusion was that interaction with the searcher and elicitation of additional information could not over-perform automatic procedures for ...
This paper describes a framework for investigating the quality of different query expansion approaches, and applies it in the HARD TREC experimental setting. ...
Interactive Elicitations In our HARD TREC 2005 work we were inspired by Rutgers work in the Interactive tracks of TREC (Belkin, et al., 2002 (Belkin, et al., , 2003 and UNC work in HARD TREC 2004 (Kelly ...
doi:10.1002/meet.14504301197
fatcat:wwxrzsrmdbhnde2bx6g5r27x4a
Redundant documents and search effectiveness
2005
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '05
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We show, moreover, that content-equivalent documents have a significant effect on the search experience: we found that 16.6% of all relevant documents in runs submitted to the TREC 2004 terabyte track ...
The presence of such mutually redundant documents in search results can degrade the user search experience. ...
An example of a document that occurred 300 times is in Figure 3.
EQUIVALENCE IN SEARCH RESULTS The TREC terabyte track (Clarke et al. 2004 ) ran for the first time in 2004. ...
doi:10.1145/1099554.1099733
dblp:conf/cikm/BernsteinZ05
fatcat:3vv7oji4y5ejtfcafd2f3mjfcq
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