Shared Tasks (1999)
TREC: ADHOC
Overview papers:
NTT DATA: Overview of system approach at TREC-8 ad-hoc and question answering
Toru Takaki
Participant papers:
ACSys TREC-8 Experiments
David Hawking
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Peter Bailey
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Nick Craswell
AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal
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Steven P. Abney
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Michiel Bacchiani
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Michael Collins
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Donald Hindle
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Fernando C. N. Pereira
The Weaver System for Document Retrieval
Adam L. Berger
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John D. Lafferty
PLIERS at TREC8
Andrew MacFarlane
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Stephen E. Robertson
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Julie A. McCann
Optimization in CLARIT TREC-8 Adaptive Filtering
ChengXiang Zhai
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Peter Jansen
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Norbert Roma
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Emilia Stoica
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David A. Evans
TREC-8 Automatic Ad-Hoc Experiments at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Claudio Carpineto
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Giovanni Romano
Fujitsu Laboratories TREC8 Report - Ad hoc, Small Web, and Large Web Track
Isao Namba
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Nobuyuki Igata
Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-8 Report
Tomek Strzalkowski
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Jose Perez Carballo
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Jussi Karlgren
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Anette Hulth
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Pasi Tapanainen
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Timo Lahtinen
Ad hoc, Cross-language and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM
Martin Franz
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J. Scott McCarley
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Todd Ward
The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8
John M. Prager
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Dragomir R. Radev
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Eric W. Brown
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Anni Coden
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Valerie Samn
IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision
M. Catherine McCabe
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David O. Holmes
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Kenneth L. Alford
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Abdur Chowdhury
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David A. Grossman
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Ophir Frieder
Automatic Query Feedback using Related Words
Stefan M. Rüger
Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem
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Christine Julien
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Josiane Mothe
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Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8
James Mayfield
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Paul McNamee
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Christine D. Piatko
Novel Query Expansion Technique using Apriori Algorithm
Arnon Rungsawang
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Athichart Tangpong
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Pawat Laohawee
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Tawa Khampachua
Experiments on the TREC-8 Filtering Track
Keiichiro Hoashi
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Kazunori Matsumoto
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Naomi Inoue
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Kazuo Hashimoto
High Selectivity and Accuracy with READWARE's Automated System of Knowledge Organization
Tom Adi
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O. K. Ewell
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Patricia Adi
A Maximum Likelihood Ratio Information Retrieval Model
Kenney Ng
Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8
Stephen E. Robertson
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Steve Walker
Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8)
Gordon V. Cormack
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Charles L. A. Clarke
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D. I. E. Kisman
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Christopher R. Palmer
Oracle at Trec8: A Lexical Approach
Kavi Mahesh
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Jacquelynn Kud
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Paul Dixon
TREC-8 Ad-Hoc, Query and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS
K. L. Kwok
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Laszlo Grunfeld
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M. Chan
Structuring and expanding queries in the probabilistic model
Yasushi Ogawa
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Hiroko Mano
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Masumi Narita
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Sakiko Honma
The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8
Michael Fuller
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Marcin Kaszkiel
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Sam Kimberley
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Corinna Ng
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Ross Wilkinson
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Mingfang Wu
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Justin Zobel
An Early DiscoWeb Prototype at TREC8
Brian D. Davison
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Apostolos Gerasoulis
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Konstantinos Kleisouris
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Yingfang Lu
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Hyun-ju Seo
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Junyu Tian
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Song Wang
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Wei Wang
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Baohua Wu
SMART in TREC 8
Chris Buckley
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Janet A. Walz
SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin
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Yu-Hwan Kim
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Sun Kim
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Jae-Hong Eom
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Hyung-Joo Shin
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Byoung-Tak Zhang
TREC-8 Experiments at SUNY Buffalo
Benjamin Han
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Ramya Nagarajan
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Rohini K. Srihari
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Srikanth Munirathnam
Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij
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Renée Pohlmann
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Djoerd Hiemstra
Report on the TREC-8 Experiment: Searching on the Web and in Distributed Collections
Jacques Savoy
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Justin Picard
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard
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Jianqiang Wang
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Dekang Lin
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Ian Soboroff
INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan
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James P. Callan
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Fangfang Feng
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Daniella Malin
IRIS at TREC-8
Kiduk Yang
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Kelly Maglaughlin
Moving More Quickly toward Full Term Relations in Information Space
Gregory B. Newby
Retrieval Performance and Visual Dispersion of Query Sets
Mark E. Rorvig
University of Surrey Participation in TREC8: Weirdness Indexing for Logical Document Extrapolation and Retrieval (WILDER)
Khurshid Ahmad
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Lee Gillam
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Lena Tostevin
The Mirror DBMS at TREC-8
Arjen P. de Vries
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Djoerd Hiemstra
TREC: CROSS-LANGUAGE
Overview papers:
Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview
Martin Braschler
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Peter Schäuble
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Carol Peters
Participant papers:
CLARIT TREC-8 CLIR Experiments
Yan Qu
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Hongming Jin
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Alla N. Eilerman
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Emilia Stoica
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David A. Evans
The Eurospider Retrieval System and the TREC-8 Cross-Language Track
Martin Braschler
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Min-Yen Kan
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Peter Schäuble
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Judith Klavans
Ad hoc, Cross-language and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM
Martin Franz
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J. Scott McCarley
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Todd Ward
Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem
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Christine Julien
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Josiane Mothe
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Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8
James Mayfield
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Paul McNamee
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Christine D. Piatko
CRL's TREC-8 Systems Cross-Lingual IR, and Q&A
William C. Ogden
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James R. Cowie
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Yevgeny Ludovik
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Hugo Molina-Salgado
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Sergei Nirenburg
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Nigel Sharples
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Svetlana Sheremetyeva
CINDOR Conceptual Interlingua Document Retrieval: TREC-8 Evaluation
Miguel E. Ruiz
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Anne Diekema
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Paraic Sheridan
Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij
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Renée Pohlmann
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Djoerd Hiemstra
CLIR using a Probabilistic Translation Model based on Web Documents
Jian-Yun Nie
English-German Cross-Language Retrieval for the GIRT Collection - Exploiting a Multilingual Thesaurus
Fredric C. Gey
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Hailing Jiang
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard
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Jianqiang Wang
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Dekang Lin
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Ian Soboroff
TREC: FILTERING
Participant papers:
PLIERS at TREC8
Andrew MacFarlane
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Stephen E. Robertson
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Julie A. McCann
Optimization in CLARIT TREC-8 Adaptive Filtering
ChengXiang Zhai
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Peter Jansen
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Norbert Roma
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Emilia Stoica
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David A. Evans
DSO at TREC-8: A Hybrid Algorithm for the Routing Task
Hwee Tou Ng
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Huey Ting Ang
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Wee Meng Soon
Two-Step Feature Selection and Neural Network Classification for the TREC-8 Routing
Mathieu Stricker
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Frantz Vichot
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Gérard Dreyfus
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Francis Wolinski
Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem
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Christine Julien
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Josiane Mothe
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Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
Experiments on the TREC-8 Filtering Track
Keiichiro Hoashi
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Kazunori Matsumoto
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Naomi Inoue
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Kazuo Hashimoto
Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8
Stephen E. Robertson
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Steve Walker
TREC-8 Ad-Hoc, Query and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS
K. L. Kwok
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Laszlo Grunfeld
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M. Chan
SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin
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Yu-Hwan Kim
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Sun Kim
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Jae-Hong Eom
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Hyung-Joo Shin
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Byoung-Tak Zhang
Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij
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Renée Pohlmann
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Djoerd Hiemstra
Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results
David Eichmann
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Padmini Srinivasan
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard
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Jianqiang Wang
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Dekang Lin
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Ian Soboroff
INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan
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James P. Callan
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Fangfang Feng
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Daniella Malin
The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report
David A. Hull
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Stephen E. Robertson
TREC: INTERACTIVE
Participant papers:
Do Batch and User Evaluations Give the Same Results? An Analysis from the TREC-8 Interactive Track
William R. Hersh
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Andrew Turpin
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Susan Price
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Dale Kraemer
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Benjamin Chan
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Lynetta Sacherek
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Daniel Olson
TREC-8 Interactive Track Report
William R. Hersh
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Paul Over
Relevance Feedback versus Local Context Analysis as Term Suggestion Devices: Rutgers' TREC-8 Interactive Track Experience
Nicholas J. Belkin
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Colleen Cool
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J. Head
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J. Jeng
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Diane Kelly
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Shin-jeng Lin
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L. Lobash
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Soyeon Park
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Pamela A. Savage-Knepshield
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C. Sikora
Berkeley's TREC 8 Interactive Track Entry: Cheshire II and Zprise
Ray R. Larson
IRIS at TREC-8
Kiduk Yang
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Kelly Maglaughlin
Interactive Okapi at Sheffield - TREC-8
Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu
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Helene Fowkes
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Nega Alemayehu
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Mark Sanderson
TREC: QUERY
Participant papers:
ACSys TREC-8 Experiments
David Hawking
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Peter Bailey
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Nick Craswell
SMART in TREC 8
Chris Buckley
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Janet A. Walz
The TREC-8 Query Track
Chris Buckley
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Janet A. Walz
INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan
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James P. Callan
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Fangfang Feng
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Daniella Malin
TREC: Question Answering
Overview papers:
NTT DATA: Overview of system approach at TREC-8 ad-hoc and question answering
Toru Takaki
Participant papers:
AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal
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Steven P. Abney
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Michiel Bacchiani
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Michael Collins
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Donald Hindle
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Fernando C. N. Pereira
Question-Answering Using Semantic Relation Triples
Kenneth C. Litkowski
Information Extraction Supported Question Answering
Rohini K. Srihari
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Wei Li
Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-8 Report
Tomek Strzalkowski
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Jose Perez Carballo
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Jussi Karlgren
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Anette Hulth
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Pasi Tapanainen
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Timo Lahtinen
The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8
John M. Prager
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Dragomir R. Radev
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Eric W. Brown
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Anni Coden
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Valerie Samn
QALC - the Question-Answering program of the Language and Cognition group at LIMSI-CNRS
Olivier Ferret
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Brigitte Grau
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Gabriel Illouz
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Christian Jacquemin
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Nicolas Masson
A Sys Called Qanda
Eric Breck
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John D. Burger
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Lisa Ferro
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David House
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Marc Light
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Inderjeet Mani
Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8)
Gordon V. Cormack
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Charles L. A. Clarke
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D. I. E. Kisman
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Christopher R. Palmer
The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report
Ellen M. Voorhees
The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Evaluation
Ellen M. Voorhees
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Dawn M. Tice
Description of Preliminary Results to TREC-8 QA Task
Chuan-Jie Lin
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
CRL's TREC-8 Systems Cross-Lingual IR, and Q&A
William C. Ogden
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James R. Cowie
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Yevgeny Ludovik
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Hugo Molina-Salgado
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Sergei Nirenburg
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Nigel Sharples
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Svetlana Sheremetyeva
The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8
Michael Fuller
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Marcin Kaszkiel
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Sam Kimberley
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Corinna Ng
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Ross Wilkinson
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Mingfang Wu
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Justin Zobel
SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin
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Yu-Hwan Kim
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Sun Kim
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Jae-Hong Eom
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Hyung-Joo Shin
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Byoung-Tak Zhang
LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net
Dan I. Moldovan
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Sanda M. Harabagiu
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Marius Pasca
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Rada Mihalcea
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Richard Goodrum
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Roxana Girju
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Vasile Rus
Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results
David Eichmann
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Padmini Srinivasan
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing
Douglas W. Oard
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Jianqiang Wang
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Dekang Lin
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Ian Soboroff
INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan
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James P. Callan
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Fangfang Feng
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Daniella Malin
Ask Me Tomorrow: The NRC and University of Ottawa Question Answering System
Joel D. Martin
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Chris Lankester
Using Coreference in Question Answering
Thomas S. Morton
University of Sheffield TREC-8 Q&A System
Kevin Humphreys
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Robert J. Gaizauskas
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Mark Hepple
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Mark Sanderson
TREC: SPOKEN DATA RECOGNITION
Participant papers:
AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal
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Steven P. Abney
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Michiel Bacchiani
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Michael Collins
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Donald Hindle
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Fernando C. N. Pereira
Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University
Sue E. Johnson
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Philip C. Woodland
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Karen Sparck Jones
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Pierre Jourlin
CMU Spoken Document Retrieval in Trec-8: Analysis of the role of Term Frequency TF
Matthew Siegler
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Rong Jin
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Alexander G. Hauptmann
Ad hoc, Cross-language and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM
Martin Franz
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J. Scott McCarley
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Todd Ward
The LIMSI SDR System for TREC-8
Jean-Luc Gauvain
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Yannick de Kercadio
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Lori Lamel
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Gilles Adda
The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story
John S. Garofolo
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Cedric G. P. Auzanne
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Ellen M. Voorhees
The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8
Michael Fuller
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Marcin Kaszkiel
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Sam Kimberley
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Corinna Ng
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Ross Wilkinson
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Mingfang Wu
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Justin Zobel
TREC-8 Experiments at SUNY Buffalo
Benjamin Han
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Ramya Nagarajan
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Rohini K. Srihari
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Srikanth Munirathnam
Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij
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Renée Pohlmann
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Djoerd Hiemstra
INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan
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James P. Callan
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Fangfang Feng
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Daniella Malin
The THISL SDR System At TREC-8
Dave Abberley
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Steve Renals
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Dan Ellis
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Anthony J. Robinson
TREC: SMALL WEB
Overview papers:
Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track
David Hawking
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Ellen M. Voorhees
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Nick Craswell
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Peter Bailey
Participant papers:
ACSys TREC-8 Experiments
David Hawking
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Peter Bailey
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Nick Craswell
AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal
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Steven P. Abney
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Michiel Bacchiani
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Michael Collins
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Donald Hindle
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Fernando C. N. Pereira
CLARIT TREC-8 Experiments in Searching Web Data
Jeffrey Bennett
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Xiang Tong
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David A. Evans
A Connectivity Analysis Approach to Increasing Precision in Retrieval From Hyperlinked Documents
Cathal Gurrin
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Alan F. Smeaton
Fujitsu Laboratories TREC8 Report - Ad hoc, Small Web, and Large Web Track
Isao Namba
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Nobuyuki Igata
IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision
M. Catherine McCabe
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David O. Holmes
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Kenneth L. Alford
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Abdur Chowdhury
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David A. Grossman
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Ophir Frieder
Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks
Mohand Boughanem
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Christine Julien
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Josiane Mothe
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Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8
Stephen E. Robertson
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Steve Walker
Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8)
Gordon V. Cormack
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Charles L. A. Clarke
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D. I. E. Kisman
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Christopher R. Palmer
The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8
Michael Fuller
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Marcin Kaszkiel
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Sam Kimberley
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Corinna Ng
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Ross Wilkinson
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Mingfang Wu
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Justin Zobel
SCAI TREC-8 Experiments
Dong-Ho Shin
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Yu-Hwan Kim
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Sun Kim
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Jae-Hong Eom
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Hyung-Joo Shin
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Byoung-Tak Zhang
Report on the TREC-8 Experiment: Searching on the Web and in Distributed Collections
Jacques Savoy
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Justin Picard
Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results
David Eichmann
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Padmini Srinivasan
INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan
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James P. Callan
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Fangfang Feng
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Daniella Malin
Moving More Quickly toward Full Term Relations in Information Space
Gregory B. Newby
TREC: LARGE WEB
Overview papers:
Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track
David Hawking
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Ellen M. Voorhees
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Nick Craswell
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Peter Bailey
Participant papers:
ACSys TREC-8 Experiments
David Hawking
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Peter Bailey
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Nick Craswell
AT&T at TREC-8
Amit Singhal
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Steven P. Abney
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Michiel Bacchiani
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Michael Collins
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Donald Hindle
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Fernando C. N. Pereira
PLIERS at TREC8
Andrew MacFarlane
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Stephen E. Robertson
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Julie A. McCann
Fujitsu Laboratories TREC8 Report - Ad hoc, Small Web, and Large Web Track
Isao Namba
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Nobuyuki Igata
Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8
Stephen E. Robertson
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Steve Walker
Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8)
Gordon V. Cormack
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Charles L. A. Clarke
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D. I. E. Kisman
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Christopher R. Palmer
An Early DiscoWeb Prototype at TREC8
Brian D. Davison
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Apostolos Gerasoulis
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Konstantinos Kleisouris
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Yingfang Lu
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Hyun-ju Seo
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Junyu Tian
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Song Wang
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Wei Wang
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Baohua Wu
INQUERY and TREC-8
James Allan
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James P. Callan
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Fangfang Feng
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Daniella Malin
Moving More Quickly toward Full Term Relations in Information Space
Gregory B. Newby