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CLEF
- Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval
- Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval
- Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation
TREC
- Cross-Language
- Filtering
- Interactive
- Question Answering
- Video
- Web
NTCIR
- Cross Lingual Information Retrieval Task (CLIR)
- Text Summarization Challenge (TSC)

CLEF: Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Participant papers:

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The CLEF 2001 Interactive Track
Douglas W. Oard

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iCLEF at Sheffield
Zoë Bathie | Mark Sanderson

CLEF: Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval

Participant papers:

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Multilingual Information Retrieval using English and Chinese Queries
Aitao Chen

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ITC-irst at CLEF 2001: Monolingual and Bilingual Tracks
Nicola Bertoldi | Marcello Federico

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Experiments with the Eurospider Retrieval System for CLEF 2001
Martin Braschler | Bärbel Ripplinger | Peter Schäuble

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NTU at CLEF 2001: Chinese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Hsin-Hsi Chen | Wen-Cheng Lin

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IR-n, a Passage Retrieval System from University of Alicante, at Clef 2001
Fernando Llopis | José Luis Vicedo González

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Using Statistical Translation Models for Bilingual IR
Jian-Yun Nie | Michel Simard

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CMU PRF using a Comparable Corpus
Monica Rogati | Yiming Yang

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Mercure at CLEF-2
Nawel Nassr | Mohand Boughanem

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Vector-based Semantic Analysis using Random Indexing and Morphological Analysis for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Jussi Karlgren | Magnus Sahlgren

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Query Expansion Techniques for the CLEF Bilingual Track
Fatiha Sadat | Akira Maeda | Masatoshi Yoshikawa | Shunsuke Uemura

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Exeter at CLEF 2001: Experiments with Machine Translation for Bilingual Retrieval
Gareth J. F. Jones | Adenike M. Lam-Adesina

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Intelligent Information Access Systems (SINAI) at CLEF 2001: Calculating Translation Probabilities with SemCor
Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago | Luis Alfonso Ureña López | Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano | Manuel García Vega | Maite Martín-Valdivia

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CLEF 2001 Bilingual Task: Simple Dictionary-Based Query Translation
Marine Carpuat | Pascale Fung

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Dictionary-based Thai CLIR: Experimental Survey of Thai CLIR
Chuleerat Jaruskulchai

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English-Dutch CLIR Using Query Translation Techniques
Mirna Adriani

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Thomson Legal and Regulatory at CLEF 2001: Monolingual and Bilingual Experiments
Hugo Molina-Salgado | Isabelle Moulinier | Mark Knudson | Elizabeth Lund | Kirat Sekhon

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CLEF 2001 Experiments using KCSL Retrieval System
Ilia Kaufman | Meena Ghanekar

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The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2001
Christof Monz | Maarten de Rijke

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Minimalistic Test Runs of the Eidetica Indexer
Teresita Frizzarin | Annius Groenink

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Across the Bridge: CLEF 2001 - Non-English Monolingual Retrieval. The French task
Eugenia Matoyo | Tony Valsamidis

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Mpro-IR in Clef 2001
Bärbel Ripplinger

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Stemming in Spanish: A First Approach to its Impact on Information Retrieval
Carlos G. Figuerola | Raquel Gómez Díaz | Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez | José Luis Alonso Berrocal

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First Experiments with CLEF
Peter van der Weerd | Wilfred Blom

CLEF: Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation

Participant papers:

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Report from TREC-9
Donna Harman | Ellen M. Voorhees

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Philosophy of IR Evaluation
Ellen M. Voorhees

TREC: Cross-Language

Participant papers:

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TREC 2001 Cross-lingual Retrieval at BBN
Jinxi Xu | Alexander M. Fraser | Ralph M. Weischedel

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Hummingbird's Fulcrum SearchServer at CLEF2001
Stephen Tomlinson

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JHU/APL at TREC 2001: Experiments in Filtering and in Arabic, Video, and Web Retrieval
James Mayfield | Paul McNamee | Cash Costello | Christine D. Piatko | Amit Banerjee

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TREC2001 Question-Answer, Web and Cross Language Experiments using PIRCS
Kui-Lam Kwok | Laszlo Grunfeld | Norbert Dinstl | M. Chan

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Translation Term Weighting and Combining Translation Resources in Cross-Language Retrieval
Aitao Chen | Fredric C. Gey

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The TREC-2001 Cross-Language Information Retrieval Track: Searching Arabic Using English, French or Arabic Queries
Fredric C. Gey | Douglas W. Oard

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TREC-10 Experiments at University of Maryland CLIR and Video
Kareem Darwish | David S. Doermann | Ryan C. Jones | Douglas W. Oard | Mika Rautiainen

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Arabic Information Retrieval at UMass in TREC-10
Leah S. Larkey | Margaret E. Connell

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Keep It Simple Sheffield - A KISS Approach to the Arabic Track
Mark Sanderson | Asaad Alberair

TREC: Filtering

Participant papers:

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The Bias Problem and Language Models in Adaptive Filtering
Yi Zhang | James P. Callan

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Applying Support Vector Machines to the TREC-2001 Batch Filtering and Routing Tasks
David D. Lewis

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Mercure and MercureFiltre Applied for Web and Filtering Tasks at TREC-10
Mohand Boughanem | Claude Chrisment | Mohamed Tmar

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TREC-10 Experiments at KAIST: Batch Filtering and Question Answering
Jong-Hoon Oh | Kyung-Soon Lee | Du-Seong Chang | Chung Won Seo | Key-Sun Choi

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The TREC 2001 Filtering Track Report
Stephen E. Robertson | Ian Soboroff

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Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-10: Filtering and Web Tracks
Stephen E. Robertson | Steve Walker | Hugo Zaragoza

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Oracle at TREC 10: Filtering and Question-Answering
Shamin Alpha | Paul Dixon | Ciya Liao | Changwen Yang

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SERbrainware at TREC 2001
Pal Rujan

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Tampere University of Technology at TREC 2001
Ari Visa | Jarmo Toivonen | Tomi Vesanen | Jarno Mäkinen

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Unbiased S-D Threshold Optimization, Initial Query Degradation, Decay, and Incrementality, for Adaptive Document Filtering
Avi Arampatzis

TREC: Interactive

Participant papers:

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TREC10 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO
Nick Craswell | David Hawking | Ross Wilkinson | Mingfang Wu

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The TREC 2001 Interactive Track Report
William R. Hersh | Paul Over

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Observations of Searchers: OHSU TREC 2001 Interactive Track
William R. Hersh | Lynetta Sacherek | Daniel Olson

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Selecting Versus Describing: A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy of Categories in Exploring the Web
Elaine G. Toms | Richard W. Kopak | Joan C. Bartlett | Luanne Freund

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Comparing Explicit and Implicit Feedback Techniques for Web Retrieval: TREC-10 Interactive Track Report
Ryen White | Joemon M. Jose | Ian Ruthven

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Important Cognitive Components of Domain-Specific Search Knowledge
Suresh K. Bhavnani

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Challenges of Multi-Mode IR Software
Gregory B. Newby

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Selecting Versus Describing: A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy of Categories in Exploring the Web
Elaine G. Toms | Richard W. Kopak | Joan C. Bartlett | Luanne Freund

TREC: Question Answering

Overview papers:

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Overview of the TREC 2001 Question Answering Track
Ellen M. Voorhees

Participant papers:

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Use of WordNet Hypernyms for Answering What-Is Questions
John M. Prager | Jennifer Chu-Carroll | Krzysztof Czuba

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CL Research Experiments in TREC-10 Question Answering
Kenneth C. Litkowski

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The QUANTUM Question Answering System
Luc Plamondon | Guy Lapalme | Leila Kosseim

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Word Proximity QA System
Philip Rennert

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IBM's Statistical Question Answering System - TREC-10
Abraham Ittycheriah | Martin Franz | Salim Roukos

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Patterns of Potential Answer Expressions as Clues to the Right Answers
Martin M. Soubbotin

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Multilingual Question/Answering: the DIOGENE System
Bernardo Magnini | Matteo Negri | Roberto Prevete | Hristo Tanev

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TREC-10 Experiments at KAIST: Batch Filtering and Question Answering
Jong-Hoon Oh | Kyung-Soon Lee | Du-Seong Chang | Chung Won Seo | Key-Sun Choi

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Data-Intensive Question Answering
Eric Brill | Jimmy Lin | Michele Banko | Susan T. Dumais | Andrew Y. Ng

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Description of NTU System at TREC-10 QA Track
Chuan-Jie Lin | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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NTT Question Answering System in TREC 2001
Hideto Kazawa | Hideki Isozaki | Eisaku Maeda

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Oracle at TREC 10: Filtering and Question-Answering
Shamin Alpha | Paul Dixon | Ciya Liao | Changwen Yang

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Aggressive Morphology and Lexical Relations for Query Expansion
William A. Woods | Stephen J. Green | Paul Alan Martin | Ann Houston

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Using Grammatical Relations, Answer Frequencies and the World Wide Web for TREC Question Answering
Sabine Buchholz

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University of Alicante at TREC-10
José Luis Vicedo González | Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez | Fernando Llopis

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Tequesta: The University of Amsterdam's Textual Question Answering System
Christof Monz | Maarten de Rijke

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The QUANTUM Question Answering System
Luc Plamondon | Guy Lapalme | Leila Kosseim

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PiQASso: Pisa Question Answering System
Giuseppe Attardi | Antonio Cisternino | Francesco Formica | Maria Simi | Alessandro Tommasi

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The Use of External Knowledge of Factoid QA
Eduard H. Hovy | Ulf Hermjakob | Chin-Yew Lin

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A ProtoType Question Answering System Using Syntactic and Semantic Information for Answer Retrieval
Enrique Alfonseca | Marco De Boni | José-Luis Jara-Valencia | Suresh Manandhar

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Web Reinforced Question Answering (MultiTest Experiments for TREC 2001)
Charles L. A. Clarke | Gordon V. Cormack | Thomas R. Lynam | C. M. Li | G. L. McLearn

TREC: Video

Participant papers:

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TREC-10 Shot Boundary Detection Task: CLIPS System Description and Evaluation
Georges Quénot

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Lazy Users and Automatic Video Retrieval Tools in (the) Lowlands

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The TREC-2001 Video Track Report
Alan F. Smeaton | Paul Over | R. Taban

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Multi-timescale Video Shot-Change Detection
Marcus Jerome Pickering | Stefan M. Rüger

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JHU/APL at TREC 2001: Experiments in Filtering and in Arabic, Video, and Web Retrieval
James Mayfield | Paul McNamee | Cash Costello | Christine D. Piatko | Amit Banerjee

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MSR-Asia at TREC-10 Video Track: Shot Boundary Detection Task
Yufei Ma | Jia Sheng | Yuan Chen | HongJiang Zhang

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Lazy Users and Automatic Video Retrieval Tools in (the) Lowlands

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MSR-Asia at TREC-10 Video Track: Shot Boundary Detection Task
Yufei Ma | Jia Sheng | Yuan Chen | HongJiang Zhang

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Lazy Users and Automatic Video Retrieval Tools in (the) Lowlands

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MSR-Asia at TREC-10 Video Track: Shot Boundary Detection Task
Yufei Ma | Jia Sheng | Yuan Chen | HongJiang Zhang

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TREC-10 Experiments at University of Maryland CLIR and Video
Kareem Darwish | David S. Doermann | Ryan C. Jones | Douglas W. Oard | Mika Rautiainen

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Lazy Users and Automatic Video Retrieval Tools in (the) Lowlands

TREC: Web

Overview papers:

Participant papers:

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Experiments Using the Lemur Toolkit
Paul Ogilvie | James P. Callan

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TREC10 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO
Nick Craswell | David Hawking | Ross Wilkinson | Mingfang Wu

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Yonsei/ETRI at TREC-10: Utilizing Web Document Properties
Dong-Yul Ra | Eui-Kyu Park | Joong-Sik Jang

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FUB at TREC-10 Web Track: A Probabilistic Framework for Topic Relevance Term Weighting
Gianni Amati | Claudio Carpineto | Giovanni Romano

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Fujitsu Laboratories TREC2001 Report
Isao Namba

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Hummingbird's Fulcrum SearchServer at CLEF2001
Stephen Tomlinson

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Integrating Link Structure and Content Information for Ranking Web Documents
Tapas Kanungo | Jason Y. Zien

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Mercure and MercureFiltre Applied for Web and Filtering Tasks at TREC-10
Mohand Boughanem | Claude Chrisment | Mohamed Tmar

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More Reflections on "Aboutness" TREC-2001 Evaluation Experiments at Justsystem
Sumio Fujita

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Kasetsart University TREC-10 Experiments
P. Narasetsathaporn | Arnon Rungsawang

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Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-10: Filtering and Web Tracks
Stephen E. Robertson | Steve Walker | Hugo Zaragoza

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The NexTrieve Search System in TREC 2001
Gordon Clare | Kim Hendrikse

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TREC2001 Question-Answer, Web and Cross Language Experiments using PIRCS
Kui-Lam Kwok | Laszlo Grunfeld | Norbert Dinstl | M. Chan

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RICOH at TREC-10: Web Track Ad-hoc Task
Hideo Itoh | Hiroko Mano | Yasushi Ogawa

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Retrieving Web Pages Using Content, Links, URLs and Anchors
Thijs Westerveld | Wessel Kraaij | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Report on CLEF-2001 Experiments
Jacques Savoy

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Combining Text- and Link-based Retrieval Methods for Web IR
Kiduk Yang

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Challenges of Multi-Mode IR Software
Gregory B. Newby

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University of Padova at TREC-10
Franco Crivellari | Massimo Melucci

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Retrieving Web Pages Using Content, Links, URLs and Anchors
Thijs Westerveld | Wessel Kraaij | Djoerd Hiemstra

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Web Reinforced Question Answering (MultiTest Experiments for TREC 2001)
Charles L. A. Clarke | Gordon V. Cormack | Thomas R. Lynam | C. M. Li | G. L. McLearn

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Yonsei/ETRI at TREC-10: Utilizing Web Document Properties
Dong-Yul Ra | Eui-Kyu Park | Joong-Sik Jang

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Machine Learning Approach for Homepage Finding Task
Wensi Xi | Edward A. Fox

NTCIR: Cross Lingual Information Retrieval Task (CLIR)

Participant papers:

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NTCIR-2 ECIR Experiments at Maryland: Comparing Pirkola's Structured Queries and Balanced Translation
Douglas W. Oard | Jianqiang Wang

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Trans-EZ at NTCIR-2 : Synset Co-occurrence Method for English-Chinese Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Guo-Wei Bian | Chi-Ching Lin

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NTCIR-2 Chinese, Cross Language Retrieval Experiments Using PIRCS
K. L. Kwok

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CRL at NTCIR2
Masaki Murata | Masao Utiyama | Qing Ma | Hiromi Ozaku | Hitoshi Isahara

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Hybrid Term Indexing: an Evaluation
Robert W. P. Luk | Kam-Fai Wong | K. L. Kwok

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The Chinese Text Retrieval Tasks of NTCIR Workshop 2
Kuang-hua Chen | Hsin-Hsi Chen

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Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for NTCIR-2
Tetsuya Sakai | Stephen E. Robertson | Stephen Walker

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Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval based on LSI with Multiple Word Spaces
Tatsunori Mori | Tomoharu Kokubu | Takashi Tanaka

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Notes on the Limits of CLIR Effectiveness: NTCIR-2 Evaluation Experiments at Justsystem
Sumio Fujita

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Regression Model and Query Expansion for NTCIR-2 Ad Hoc Retrieval Task
Kazuaki Kishida

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R^D^ at NTCIR 2 Ad-hoc Task: Relevance-based Superimposition Model for IR
Teruhito Kanazawa | Atsuhiro Takasu | Jun Adachi

NTCIR: Text Summarization Challenge (TSC)

Participant papers:

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Term Weighting Method based on Information Gain Ratio for Summarizing Documents Retrieved by IR Systems
Tatsunori Mori | Miwa Kikuchi | Kazufumi Yoshida

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Hybrid Text Summarization Method based on the TF Method and the Lead Method
Kai Ishikawa | Shinichi Ando | Akitoshi Okumura

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Yet Another Summarization System with Two Modules using Empirical Knowledge
Kiyonori Ohtake | Daigo Okamoto | Mitsuru Kodama | Shigeru Masuyama

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How Small a Distinction among Summaries can the Evaluation Method Identify?
Yoshio Nakao

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Text Summarization based on Hanning Window and Dependency Strucuture Analysis
Tsutomu Hirao | Mamiko Hatayama | Satoshi Yamada | Kazuhiro Takeuchi