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TREC: ADHOC

Overview papers:

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NTT DATA: Overview of system approach at TREC-8 ad-hoc and question answering
Toru Takaki

Participant papers:

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ACSys TREC-8 Experiments
David Hawking | Peter Bailey | Nick Craswell

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AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal | Steven P. Abney | Michiel Bacchiani | Michael Collins | Donald Hindle | Fernando C. N. Pereira

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The Weaver System for Document Retrieval
Adam L. Berger | John D. Lafferty

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PLIERS at TREC8
Andrew MacFarlane | Stephen E. Robertson | Julie A. McCann

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Optimization in CLARIT TREC-8 Adaptive Filtering
ChengXiang Zhai | Peter Jansen | Norbert Roma | Emilia Stoica | David A. Evans

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TREC-8 Automatic Ad-Hoc Experiments at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Claudio Carpineto | Giovanni Romano

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Fujitsu Laboratories TREC8 Report - Ad hoc, Small Web, and Large Web Track
Isao Namba | Nobuyuki Igata

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Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-8 Report
Tomek Strzalkowski | Jose Perez Carballo | Jussi Karlgren | Anette Hulth | Pasi Tapanainen | Timo Lahtinen

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Ad hoc, Cross-language and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM
Martin Franz | J. Scott McCarley | Todd Ward

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The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8
John M. Prager | Dragomir R. Radev | Eric W. Brown | Anni Coden | Valerie Samn

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IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision
M. Catherine McCabe | David O. Holmes | Kenneth L. Alford | Abdur Chowdhury | David A. Grossman | Ophir Frieder

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Automatic Query Feedback using Related Words
Stefan M. Rüger

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Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem | Christine Julien | Josiane Mothe | Chantal Soulé-Dupuy

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The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8
James Mayfield | Paul McNamee | Christine D. Piatko

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Novel Query Expansion Technique using Apriori Algorithm
Arnon Rungsawang | Athichart Tangpong | Pawat Laohawee | Tawa Khampachua

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Experiments on the TREC-8 Filtering Track
Keiichiro Hoashi | Kazunori Matsumoto | Naomi Inoue | Kazuo Hashimoto

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High Selectivity and Accuracy with READWARE's Automated System of Knowledge Organization
Tom Adi | O. K. Ewell | Patricia Adi

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A Maximum Likelihood Ratio Information Retrieval Model
Kenney Ng

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Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8
Stephen E. Robertson | Steve Walker

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Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8)
Gordon V. Cormack | Charles L. A. Clarke | D. I. E. Kisman | Christopher R. Palmer

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Oracle at Trec8: A Lexical Approach
Kavi Mahesh | Jacquelynn Kud | Paul Dixon

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TREC-8 Ad-Hoc, Query and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS
K. L. Kwok | Laszlo Grunfeld | M. Chan

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Structuring and expanding queries in the probabilistic model
Yasushi Ogawa | Hiroko Mano | Masumi Narita | Sakiko Honma

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The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8
Michael Fuller | Marcin Kaszkiel | Sam Kimberley | Corinna Ng | Ross Wilkinson | Mingfang Wu | Justin Zobel

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An Early DiscoWeb Prototype at TREC8
Brian D. Davison | Apostolos Gerasoulis | Konstantinos Kleisouris | Yingfang Lu | Hyun-ju Seo | Junyu Tian | Song Wang | Wei Wang | Baohua Wu

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SMART in TREC 8
Chris Buckley | Janet A. Walz

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SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin | Yu-Hwan Kim | Sun Kim | Jae-Hong Eom | Hyung-Joo Shin | Byoung-Tak Zhang

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TREC-8 Experiments at SUNY Buffalo
Benjamin Han | Ramya Nagarajan | Rohini K. Srihari | Srikanth Munirathnam

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Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij | Renée Pohlmann | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Report on the TREC-8 Experiment: Searching on the Web and in Distributed Collections
Jacques Savoy | Justin Picard

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TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard | Jianqiang Wang | Dekang Lin | Ian Soboroff

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INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan | James P. Callan | Fangfang Feng | Daniella Malin

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IRIS at TREC-8
Kiduk Yang | Kelly Maglaughlin

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Moving More Quickly toward Full Term Relations in Information Space
Gregory B. Newby

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Retrieval Performance and Visual Dispersion of Query Sets
Mark E. Rorvig

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University of Surrey Participation in TREC8: Weirdness Indexing for Logical Document Extrapolation and Retrieval (WILDER)
Khurshid Ahmad | Lee Gillam | Lena Tostevin

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The Mirror DBMS at TREC-8
Arjen P. de Vries | Djoerd Hiemstra

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TREC: CROSS-LANGUAGE

Overview papers:

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview
Martin Braschler | Peter Schäuble | Carol Peters

Participant papers:

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CLARIT TREC-8 CLIR Experiments
Yan Qu | Hongming Jin | Alla N. Eilerman | Emilia Stoica | David A. Evans

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The Eurospider Retrieval System and the TREC-8 Cross-Language Track
Martin Braschler | Min-Yen Kan | Peter Schäuble | Judith Klavans

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Ad hoc, Cross-language and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM
Martin Franz | J. Scott McCarley | Todd Ward

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Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem | Christine Julien | Josiane Mothe | Chantal Soulé-Dupuy

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The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8
James Mayfield | Paul McNamee | Christine D. Piatko

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CRL's TREC-8 Systems Cross-Lingual IR, and Q&A
William C. Ogden | James R. Cowie | Yevgeny Ludovik | Hugo Molina-Salgado | Sergei Nirenburg | Nigel Sharples | Svetlana O. Sheremetyeva

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CINDOR Conceptual Interlingua Document Retrieval: TREC-8 Evaluation
Miguel E. Ruiz | Anne Diekema | Paraic Sheridan

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Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij | Renée Pohlmann | Djoerd Hiemstra

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CLIR using a Probabilistic Translation Model based on Web Documents
Jian-Yun Nie

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English-German Cross-Language Retrieval for the GIRT Collection - Exploiting a Multilingual Thesaurus
Fredric C. Gey | Hailing Jiang

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TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard | Jianqiang Wang | Dekang Lin | Ian Soboroff

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TREC: FILTERING

Participant papers:

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PLIERS at TREC8
Andrew MacFarlane | Stephen E. Robertson | Julie A. McCann

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Optimization in CLARIT TREC-8 Adaptive Filtering
ChengXiang Zhai | Peter Jansen | Norbert Roma | Emilia Stoica | David A. Evans

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DSO at TREC-8: A Hybrid Algorithm for the Routing Task
Hwee Tou Ng | Huey Ting Ang | Wee Meng Soon

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Two-Step Feature Selection and Neural Network Classification for the TREC-8 Routing
Mathieu Stricker | Frantz Vichot | Gérard Dreyfus | Francis Wolinski

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Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem | Christine Julien | Josiane Mothe | Chantal Soulé-Dupuy

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Experiments on the TREC-8 Filtering Track
Keiichiro Hoashi | Kazunori Matsumoto | Naomi Inoue | Kazuo Hashimoto

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Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8
Stephen E. Robertson | Steve Walker

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TREC-8 Ad-Hoc, Query and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS
K. L. Kwok | Laszlo Grunfeld | M. Chan

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SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin | Yu-Hwan Kim | Sun Kim | Jae-Hong Eom | Hyung-Joo Shin | Byoung-Tak Zhang

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Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij | Renée Pohlmann | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results
David Eichmann | Padmini Srinivasan

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TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard | Jianqiang Wang | Dekang Lin | Ian Soboroff

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INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan | James P. Callan | Fangfang Feng | Daniella Malin

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The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report
David A. Hull | Stephen E. Robertson

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TREC: Question Answering

Overview papers:

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NTT DATA: Overview of system approach at TREC-8 ad-hoc and question answering
Toru Takaki

Participant papers:

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AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal | Steven P. Abney | Michiel Bacchiani | Michael Collins | Donald Hindle | Fernando C. N. Pereira

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Question-Answering Using Semantic Relation Triples
Kenneth C. Litkowski

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Information Extraction Supported Question Answering
Rohini K. Srihari | Wei Li

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Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-8 Report
Tomek Strzalkowski | Jose Perez Carballo | Jussi Karlgren | Anette Hulth | Pasi Tapanainen | Timo Lahtinen

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The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8
John M. Prager | Dragomir R. Radev | Eric W. Brown | Anni Coden | Valerie Samn

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QALC - the Question-Answering program of the Language and Cognition group at LIMSI-CNRS
Olivier Ferret | Brigitte Grau | Gabriel Illouz | Christian Jacquemin | Nicolas Masson

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A Sys Called Qanda
Eric Breck | John D. Burger | Lisa Ferro | David House | Marc Light | Inderjeet Mani

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Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8)
Gordon V. Cormack | Charles L. A. Clarke | D. I. E. Kisman | Christopher R. Palmer

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The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report
Ellen M. Voorhees

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The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Evaluation
Ellen M. Voorhees | Dawn M. Tice

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Description of Preliminary Results to TREC-8 QA Task
Chuan-Jie Lin | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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CRL's TREC-8 Systems Cross-Lingual IR, and Q&A
William C. Ogden | James R. Cowie | Yevgeny Ludovik | Hugo Molina-Salgado | Sergei Nirenburg | Nigel Sharples | Svetlana O. Sheremetyeva

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The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8
Michael Fuller | Marcin Kaszkiel | Sam Kimberley | Corinna Ng | Ross Wilkinson | Mingfang Wu | Justin Zobel

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SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin | Yu-Hwan Kim | Sun Kim | Jae-Hong Eom | Hyung-Joo Shin | Byoung-Tak Zhang

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LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net
Dan I. Moldovan | Sanda M. Harabagiu | Marius Pasca | Rada Mihalcea | Richard Goodrum | Roxana Girju | Vasile Rus

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Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results
David Eichmann | Padmini Srinivasan

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TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard | Jianqiang Wang | Dekang Lin | Ian Soboroff

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INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan | James P. Callan | Fangfang Feng | Daniella Malin

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Ask Me Tomorrow: The NRC and University of Ottawa Question Answering System
Joel D. Martin | Chris Lankester

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Using Coreference in Question Answering
Thomas S. Morton

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University of Sheffield TREC-8 Q&A System
Kevin Humphreys | Robert J. Gaizauskas | Mark Hepple | Mark Sanderson

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Xerox TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report
David A. Hull

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TREC: SMALL WEB

Overview papers:

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Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track
David Hawking | Ellen M. Voorhees | Nick Craswell | Peter Bailey

Participant papers:

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ACSys TREC-8 Experiments
David Hawking | Peter Bailey | Nick Craswell

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AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal | Steven P. Abney | Michiel Bacchiani | Michael Collins | Donald Hindle | Fernando C. N. Pereira

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CLARIT TREC-8 Experiments in Searching Web Data
Jeffrey Bennett | Xiang Tong | David A. Evans

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A Connectivity Analysis Approach to Increasing Precision in Retrieval From Hyperlinked Documents
Cathal Gurrin | Alan F. Smeaton

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Fujitsu Laboratories TREC8 Report - Ad hoc, Small Web, and Large Web Track
Isao Namba | Nobuyuki Igata

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IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision
M. Catherine McCabe | David O. Holmes | Kenneth L. Alford | Abdur Chowdhury | David A. Grossman | Ophir Frieder

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Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem | Christine Julien | Josiane Mothe | Chantal Soulé-Dupuy

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Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8
Stephen E. Robertson | Steve Walker

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Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8)
Gordon V. Cormack | Charles L. A. Clarke | D. I. E. Kisman | Christopher R. Palmer

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The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8
Michael Fuller | Marcin Kaszkiel | Sam Kimberley | Corinna Ng | Ross Wilkinson | Mingfang Wu | Justin Zobel

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SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin | Yu-Hwan Kim | Sun Kim | Jae-Hong Eom | Hyung-Joo Shin | Byoung-Tak Zhang

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Report on the TREC-8 Experiment: Searching on the Web and in Distributed Collections
Jacques Savoy | Justin Picard

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Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results
David Eichmann | Padmini Srinivasan

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INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan | James P. Callan | Fangfang Feng | Daniella Malin

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Moving More Quickly toward Full Term Relations in Information Space
Gregory B. Newby

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NTCIR: IR Task

Overview papers:

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Overview of IR tasks
Noriko Kando | Kazuko Kuriyama | Toshihiko Nozue | Koji Eguchi | Hiroyuki Kato | Soichiro Hidaka

Participant papers:

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Comparing Multiple Methods for Japanese and Japanese-English Text Retrieval
Aitao Chen | Fredric C. Gey | Kazuaki Kishida | Hailing Jiang | Qun Liang

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Information Retrieval Based on Stochastic Models
Masaki Murata | Kiyotaka Uchimoto | Hiromi Ozaku | Hitoshi Isahara

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NTCIR Experiments at Matsushita: Ad-hoc and CLIR Task
Mitsuhiro Sato | Hayashi Ito | Naohiko Noguchi

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R^D^at NTCIR: Using the Relevance-based Superimposition Model
Teruhito Kanazawa

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Japanese Word Segmentation Using Similarity Measure for IR
Tomohiro Ozawa | Mikio Yamamoto | Kyoji Umemura | Kenneth Ward Church

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Experiments with Japanese Text Retrieval Using mg
Phil Vines | Ross Wilkinson

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Notes on Phrasal Indexing: JSCB Evaluation Experiments at NTCIR AD HOC
Sumio Fujita

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Proposal and Evaluation of Significant Words Selection Method Based on AIC
Shigeki Ohira | Katsuhiko Shirai

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Structured Index System at NTCIR1: Information Retrieval using Dependency Relationship between Words
Atsushi Matsumura | Atsuhiro Takasu | Jun Adachi

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Interactive Document Search with DualNAVI
Yoshiki Niwa | Makoto Iwayama | Toru Hisamitsu | Shingo Nishioka | Akihiko Takano | Hirofumi Sakurai | Osamu Imaichi

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Dynamic Programming: A New Paradigm for Information Retrieval
Ryuichi Sawada | Kyoji Umemura

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval for NTCIR at Toshiba
Tetsuya Sakai | Yasuyo Shibazaki | Masaru Suzuki | Masahiro Kajiura | Toshihiko Manabe | Kazuo Sumita

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Description of the NTU Japanese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System
Chuan-Jie Lin | Wen-Cheng Lin | Guo-Wei Bian | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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Cross Language Information Retrieval Based on Comparable Corpora
Satoshi Nakazawa | Takayoshi Ochiai | Kenji Satoh | Akitoshi Okumura

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NTCIR CLIR Experiments at the University of Maryland
Douglas W. Oard | Jianqiang Wang

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval at ULIS
Atsushi Fujii | Tetsuya Ishikawa

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Multi-lingual Multi-media Information Retrieval System
Shoji Mizobuchi | Sankon Lee | Fumihiko Kawano | Tsuyoshi Kobayashi | Takahiro Komatsu | Jun-ichi Aoe

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A Character-based Indexing and Word-based Ranking Method for Japanese Text Retrieval
Toshikazu Fukushima | Susumu Akamine

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Development of a Related Document Retrieval System and Evaluation of the System Using NTCIR-1
Hiroshi Umemoto | Tsutomu Kuramochi | Yasuhiro Ishitobi | Masakazu Tateno

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Idea-deriving Information Retrieval System
Tsuneaki Kato | Shigeo Shimada | Mutsumi Kumamoto | Kazumitsu Matsuzawa

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An Advanced System for Information Retrieval via Key Concepts
Hiroyuki Kameda | Noriko Oomori | Chiaki Kubomura | Yukinobu Tanifuji