Shared Tasks (2003)
CLEF: Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections
Participant papers:
The CLEF 2003 Cross Language Image Retrieval Task
Paul D. Clough
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Mark Sanderson
Sheffield at ImageCLEF 2003
Paul D. Clough
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Mark Sanderson
Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Wen-Cheng Lin
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Changhua Yang
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
MIRACLE Evaluation of Results for ImageCLEF 2003
Julio Villena-Román
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José Luis Martínez-Fernández
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Jorge Fombella
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Ana García-Serrano
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Alberto Ruiz-Cristina
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Paloma Martínez
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José M. Goñi
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José Carlos González
Scene of Crime Information System: Playing at St. Andrews
Bogdan Vrusias
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Mariam Tariq
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Lee Gillam
CLEF: Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval
Participant papers:
The CLEF 2003 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track
Marcello Federico
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Gareth J. F. Jones
Spoken Document Retrieval Experiments with IR-n System
Fernando Llopis
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Patricio Martínez-Barco
CLEF: Mono- and Cross-Language IR for Scientific Collections
Participant papers:
Data Compression Approach to Monolingual GIRT Task: an Agnostic Point of View
Daniela Alderuccio
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Luciana Bordoni
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Vittorio Loreto
CLEF: Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Participant papers:
iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection
Bonnie J. Dorr
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Daqing He
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Jun Luo
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Douglas W. Oard
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Richard M. Schwartz
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Jianqiang Wang
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David M. Zajic
UNED at iCLEF 2003: Searching Cross-Language Summaries
Fernando López-Ostenero
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Julio Gonzalo
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Felisa Verdejo
Comparing Syntactic Semantic Patterns and Passages in Interactive Cross Language Information Access (iCLEF at University of Alicante)
Borja Navarro
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Fernando Llopis
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Miguel Angel Varó
CLEF: Mono-, Bi- and Multilingual Information Retrieval
Participant papers:
Multilingual Experiments of UTA at CLEF 2003: The Impact of Different Merging Strategies and Word Normalizing Tools
Eija Airio
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Heikki Keskustalo
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Turid Hedlund
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Ari Pirkola
JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-Word Translation
Paul McNamee
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James Mayfield
Report on CLEF-2003 Experiments: Two Ways of Extracting Multilingual Resources from Corpora
Nicola Cancedda
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Hervé Déjean
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Éric Gaussier
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Jean-Michel Renders
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Alexei Vinokourov
Combining Query Translation and Document Translation in Cross-Language Retrieval
Aitao Chen
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Fredric C. Gey
Cross-Language Experiments with IR-n System
Fernando Llopis
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Rafael Muñoz
CONTROL: CLEF-2003 with Open, Transparent Resources Off-Line
Monica Rogati
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Yiming Yang
ITC-irst at CLEF 2003: Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Information Retrieval
Nicola Bertoldi
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Marcello Federico
The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2003
Jaap Kamps
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Christof Monz
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Maarten de Rijke
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Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
The LIC2M's CLEF 2003 System
Romaric Besançon
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Gaël de Chalendar
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Olivier Ferret
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Christian Fluhr
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Olivier Mesnard
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Hubert Naets
Report on CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB
Miguel E. Ruiz
SINAI at CLEF 2003: Decompounding and Merging
Fernando Javier Martínez Santiago
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Arturo Montejo-Ráez
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Luis Alfonso Ureña López
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Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano
Merging Results by Using Predicted Retrieval Effectiveness
Wen-Cheng Lin
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
Evaluation of MIRACLE Approach Results for CLEF 2003
José Luis Martínez-Fernández
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Julio Villena-Román
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Jorge Fombella
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Ana García-Serrano
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Alberto Ruiz-Cristina
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Paloma Martínez
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José M. Goñi
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José Carlos González
Two Stages Refinement of Query Translation for Pivot Language Approach to Cross Lingual Information Retrieval: A Trial at CLEF 2003
Kazuaki Kishida
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Noriko Kando
Multilingual Retrieval in Twente
Franciska de Jong
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Dennis Reidsma
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Djoerd Hiemstra
Lexical and Algorithmic Stemming Compared for 9 European Languages with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at CLEF 2003
Stephen Tomlinson
Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval
Jacques Savoy
Pruning Texts with NLP and Expanding Queries with an Ontology: TagSearch
Gil Francopoulo
Selective Compound Splitting of Swedish Queries for Boolean Combinations of Truncated Terms
Rickard Cöster
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Magnus Sahlgren
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Jussi Karlgren
COLE Experiments at CLEF 2003: Spanish Monolingual Track
Jesús Vilares
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Miguel A. Alonso
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Francisco J. Ribadas
The University of Padova at CLEF 2003: Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word Translation
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
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Nicola Ferro
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Massimo Melucci
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Nicola Orio
Clustering and Retrieval of Spanish News Documents Using Self Organizing Maps
Javier Fernández
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Ricardo Mones
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Irene Díaz
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José Ranilla
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Elías F. Combarro
MediaLab at CLEF-2003: Using Keyword Disambiguation
Peter van der Weerd
CLEF: Multiple Language Question Answering
Participant papers:
Creating the DISEQuA Corpus: a Test Set for Multilingual Question Answering
Bernardo Magnini
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Simone Romagnoli
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Alessandro Vallin
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Jesús Herrera
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Anselmo Peñas
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Víctor Peinado
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Felisa Verdejo
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Maarten de Rijke
Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF 2003
Matteo Negri
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Hristo Tanev
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Bernardo Magnini
Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline
Lucian Vlad Lita
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Monica Rogati
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Jaime G. Carbonell
Question Answering in Spanish
José Luis Vicedo González
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Rubén Izquierdo
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Fernando Llopis
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Rafael Muñoz
Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System
Luc Plamondon
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George F. Foster
CLEF: Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation
Participant papers:
Proper Names in the Multilingual CLEF Topic Set
Thomas Mandl
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Christa Womser-Hacker
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies at NTCIR Workshop
Noriko Kando
TREC: Hard
Overview papers:
TREC GENOMICS Track Overview
William R. Hersh
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Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju
Participant papers:
Recognizing Gene and Protein Function in MEDLINE Abstracts
Richard D. Hull
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Larry F. Waldman
On the Use of MeSH Headings to Improve Retrieval Effectiveness
Stephen Blott
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Cathal Gurrin
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Gareth J. F. Jones
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Alan F. Smeaton
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Thomas Sødring
Robust, Web and Genomic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer at TREC 2003
Stephen Tomlinson
IBM Research and the University of Colorado - TREC 2003 Genomics Track
Eric W. Brown
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Andrew Dolbey
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Lawrence Hunter
Identifying Gene Function Descriptions by Probability-based Sentence Selection
Kazuhiro Seki
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Nihar Sheth
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Javed Mostafa
Biomedical Text Retrieval System at Korea University
Young-In Song
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Kyoung-Soo Han
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Hee-Cheol Seo
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Sang-Bum Kim
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Hae-Chang Rim
Methods for Accurate Retrieval of MEDLINE Citations in Functional Genomics
Mehmet Kayaalp
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Alan R. Aronson
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Susanne M. Humphrey
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Nicholas C. Ide
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Lorraine K. Tanabe
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Lawrence H. Smith
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Dina Demner-Fushman
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Russell F. Loane
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James G. Mork
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Olivier Bodenreider
Finiding Gene Function using LitMiner
Berry de Bruijn
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Joel D. Martin
Experiments in TREC 2003 Genomics Track at NTT
Hirotoshi Taira
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Tomonori Izumitani
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Tsutomu Hirao
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Hideki Isozaki
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Hideto Kazawa
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Eisaku Maeda
SVM Approach to GeneRIF Annotation
Wen-Juan Hou
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Chun-Yuan Teng
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Chih Lee
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
Phrases, Boosting, and Query Expansion Using External Knowledge Resources for Genomic Information Retrieval
William R. Hersh
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Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju
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Susan Price
Partioning a Graph of Sequences, Structures and Abstracts for Information Retrieval
Aynur A. Dayanik
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Craig G. Nevill-Manning
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Rose Oughtred
Knowledge-Based Access to the Bio-Medical Literature, Ontologically-Grounded Experiments for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track
Richard Tong
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John Quackenbush
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Mark Snuffin
Bangor at TREC 2003: Q&A and Genomics Tracks
Terence Clifton
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Alex Colquhoun
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William John Teahan
BioText Team Report for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track
Gaurav Bhalotia
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Preslav Nakov
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Ariel S. Schwartz
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Marti A. Hearst
Edinburgh-Stanford TREC-2003 Genomics Track
Miles Osborne
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Mark Cuminskey
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Gail Sinclair
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Matthew Smillie
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Bonnie L. Webber
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Jeffrey T. Chang
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Nipun Mehra
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Veronica Rotemberg
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Russ B. Altman
Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics Experiments
ChengXiang Zhai
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Tao Tao
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Hui Fang
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Zhidi Shang
Experiments in Novelty, Genes and Questions at the University of Iowa
David Eichmann
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Padmini Srinivasan
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Marc Light
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Hudong Wang
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Xin Ying Qiu
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Robert J. Arens
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Aditya Kumar Sehgal
Report on CLEF-2003 Monolingual Tracks: Fusion of Probabilistic Models for Effective Monolingual Retrieval
Jacques Savoy
Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic Track
Patrick Ruch
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Gilles Cohen
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Frédéric Ehrler
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Henning Müller
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Giovanni Coray
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Hatem Ghorbel
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Vincenzo Pallotta
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Christine Chichester
UB at TREC 12: HARD and Genomics Tracks
Munirathnam Srikanth
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Miguel E. Ruiz
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Rohini K. Srihari
TREC 2003 Genomics Track Experiments at UTA: Query Expansion with Predefinded High Frequency Terms
Ari Pirkola
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Erkka Leppänen
A Method to Retrieve Papers from MEDLINE: PETER System
Hiroko Ao
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Yasunori Yamamoto
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Toshihisa Takagi
Task-Specific Query Expansion (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2003)
David L. Yeung
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Charles L. A. Clarke
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Gordon V. Cormack
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Thomas R. Lynam
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Egidio L. Terra
TREC: Novelty
Overview papers:
HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003: High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents
James Allan
Participant papers:
TREC12 HARD Track at ISCAS
Zeng Wu
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Lin Du
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Le Sun
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Shiwei Ye
Clairvoyance Corporation Experiments in the TREC 2003 High Accuracy Retrieval from Douments (HARD) Track
James G. Shanahan
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Jeffrey Bennett
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David A. Evans
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David A. Hull
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Jesse Montgomery
Generic Text Summarization Using Wordnet for Novelty and Hard
Ganesh Ramakrishnan
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Kedar Bellare
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Chirag Shah
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Deepa Paranjpe
Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-12: HARD track
Stephen E. Robertson
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Hugo Zaragoza
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Michael J. Taylor
TREC 2003 Robust, HARD and QA Track Experiments using PIRCS
Laszlo Grunfeld
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Kui-Lam Kwok
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Norbert Dinstl
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Peter Deng
Rutgers' HARD and Web Interactive Track Experiments at TREC 2003
Nicholas J. Belkin
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Diane Kelly
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Hyuk-Jin Lee
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Yuelin Li
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Gheorghe Muresan
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Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang
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Xiaojun Yuan
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Xiao-Min Zhang
THUIR at TREC 2003: HARD Experiments
Liang Ma
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Wei Tan
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Qunxiu Chen
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Shaoping Ma
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Shuicai Shi
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Shibin Xiao
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Hongwei Wang
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Hongjun Wang
Active Feedback - UIUC TREC-2003 HARD Experiments
Xuehua Shen
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ChengXiang Zhai
HARD Experiment at Maryland: From Need Negotiation to Automated HARD Process
Daqing He
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Dina Demner-Fushman
UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA
Nasreen Abdul Jaleel
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Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel
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Qi Li
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Xiaoyong Liu
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Courtney Wade
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James Allan
UB at TREC 12: HARD and Genomics Tracks
Munirathnam Srikanth
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Miguel E. Ruiz
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Rohini K. Srihari
Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD Tasks
Olga Vechtomova
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Eric Lam
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Murat Karamuftuoglu
TREC: QA
Overview papers:
Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track
Ian Soboroff
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Donna Harman
Participant papers:
NLPR at TREC 2003: Novelty and Robust
Qianli Jin
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Jun Zhao
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Bo Xu
TREC 2003 Novelty and Web Track at ICT
Jian Sun
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Zhe Yang
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Wenfeng Pan
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Huaping Zhang
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Bin Wang
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Xueqi Cheng
Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
Kenneth C. Litkowski
From TREC to DUC to TREC Again
John M. Conroy
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Daniel M. Dunlavy
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Dianne P. O'Leary
Generic Text Summarization Using Wordnet for Novelty and Hard
Ganesh Ramakrishnan
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Kedar Bellare
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Chirag Shah
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Deepa Paranjpe
Trec Novelty Track At IRIT-SIG
Taoufiq Dkaki
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Josiane Mothe
The Role and Meaning of Predicative and Non-Predicative Definitions in the Search for Information
Ilya S. Geller
Meiji University Web and Novelty Track Experiments at TREC 2003
Ryosuke Ohgaya
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Akiyoshi Shimmura
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Tomohiro Takagi
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Akiko N. Aizawa
Approach of Information Retrieval with Reference Corpus to Novelty Detection
Ming-Feng Tsai
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Ming-Hung Hsu
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
THUIR at TREC 2003: Novelty, Robust and Web
Min Zhang
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Chuan Lin
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Yiqun Liu
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Leo Zhao
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Shaoping Ma
Experiments in Novelty, Genes and Questions at the University of Iowa
David Eichmann
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Padmini Srinivasan
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Marc Light
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Hudong Wang
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Xin Ying Qiu
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Robert J. Arens
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Aditya Kumar Sehgal
UMBC at TREC 12
Srikanth Kallurkar
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Yongmei Shi
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R. Scott Cost
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Charles K. Nicholas
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Akshay Java
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Christopher James
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Sowjanya Rajavaram
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Vishal Shanbhag
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Sachin Bhatkar
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Drew Ogle
The University of Michigan at TREC 2003
Jahna Otterbacher
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Hong Qi
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Ali Hakim
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Dragomir R. Radev
TREC: Robust
Overview papers:
Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track
Ellen M. Voorhees
Participant papers:
TREC 2003 QA at BBN: Answering Definitional Questions
Jinxi Xu
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Ana Licuanan
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Ralph M. Weischedel
The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategh Approach with Dynamic Planning
Eric Nyberg
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Teruko Mitamura
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James P. Callan
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Jaime G. Carbonell
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Robert E. Frederking
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Kevyn Collins-Thompson
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Laurie Hiyakumoto
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Yifen Huang
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Curtis Huttenhower
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Scott Judy
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Jeongwoo Ko
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Anna Kupsc
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Lucian Vlad Lita
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Vasco Pedro
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David Svoboda
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Benjamin Van Durme
TREC 2003 Question Answering Track at CAS-ICT
Yi Chang
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Hongbo Xu
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Shuo Bai
Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks
Kenneth C. Litkowski
A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional Questions
Sasha Blair-Goldensohn
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Kathleen R. McKeown
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Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer
FDUQA on TREC2003 QA task
Lide Wu
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Xuanjing Huang
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Yaqian Zhou
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Yongping Du
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Lan You
IBM's PIQUANT in TREC2003
John M. Prager
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Jennifer Chu-Carroll
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Krzysztof Czuba
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Christopher A. Welty
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Abraham Ittycheriah
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Ruchi Mahindru
Passage Scoring for Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical Relations
Deepa Paranjpe
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Ganesh Ramakrishnan
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Sumana Srinivasan
ITC-irst at TREC 2003: the DIOGENE QA System
Milen Kouylekov
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Bernardo Magnini
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Matteo Negri
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Hristo Tanev
Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning
Sanda M. Harabagiu
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Dan I. Moldovan
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Christine Clark
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Mitchell Bowden
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John Williams
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Jeremy Bensley
The Role and Meaning of Predicative and Non-Predicative Definitions in the Search for Information
Ilya S. Geller
AnswerFinder in TREC 2003
Diego Mollá Aliod
Integrating Web-based and Corpus-based Techniques for Question Answering
Boris Katz
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Jimmy Lin
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Daniel Loreto
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Wesley Hildebrandt
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Matthew W. Bilotti
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Sue Felshin
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Aaron Fernandes
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Gregory Marton
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Federico Mora
MITRE's Qanda at TREC-12
John D. Burger
QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task
Hui Yang
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Hang Cui
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Mstislav Maslennikov
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Long Qiu
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Min-Yen Kan
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Tat-Seng Chua
A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering
Dell Zhang
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Wee Sun Lee
TREC 2003 Robust, HARD and QA Track Experiments using PIRCS
Laszlo Grunfeld
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Kui-Lam Kwok
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Norbert Dinstl
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Peter Deng
Questioning Answering By Pattern Matching, Web-Proofing, Semantic Form Proofing
Min Wu
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Xiaoyu Zheng
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Michelle Duan
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Ting Liu
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Tomek Strzalkowski
The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF2003
Valentin Jijkoun
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Gilad Mishne
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Maarten de Rijke
Bangor at TREC 2003: Q&A and Genomics Tracks
Terence Clifton
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Alex Colquhoun
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William John Teahan
QED: The Edinburgh TREC-2003 Question Answering System
Jochen L. Leidner
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Johan Bos
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Tiphaine Dalmas
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James R. Curran
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Stephen Clark
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Colin J. Bannard
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Bonnie L. Webber
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Mark Steedman
Experiments in Novelty, Genes and Questions at the University of Iowa
David Eichmann
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Padmini Srinivasan
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Marc Light
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Hudong Wang
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Xin Ying Qiu
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Robert J. Arens
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Aditya Kumar Sehgal
Question Answering using the DLT System at TREC 2003
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe
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Igal Gabbay
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Michael Mulcahy
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Kieran White
UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA
Nasreen Abdul Jaleel
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Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel
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Qi Li
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Xiaoyong Liu
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Courtney Wade
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James Allan
QA UdG-UPC System at TREC-12
Marc Massot
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Horacio Rodríguez
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Daniel Ferrés
Multiple-Engine Question Answering in TextMap
Abdessamad Echihabi
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Ulf Hermjakob
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Eduard H. Hovy
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Daniel Marcu
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Eric Melz
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Deepak Ravichandran
The University of Sheffield's TREC 2003 Q&A Experiments
Robert J. Gaizauskas
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Mark A. Greenwood
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Mark Hepple
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Ian Roberts
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Horacio Saggion
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Matthew Sargaison
TREC: Web
Overview papers:
Overview of the TREC 2003 Robust Retrieval Track
Ellen M. Voorhees
Participant papers:
NLPR at TREC 2003: Novelty and Robust
Qianli Jin
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Jun Zhao
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Bo Xu
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2003: Robust and Web Track
Giambattista Amati
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Claudio Carpineto
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Giovanni Romano
Robust, Web and Genomic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer at TREC 2003
Stephen Tomlinson
Combining Methods for the TREC 2003 Robust Track
James Mayfield
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Paul McNamee
Océ at TREC 2003
Pascha Iljin
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Roel Brand
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Samuel Driessen
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Jakob Klok
TREC 2003 Robust, HARD and QA Track Experiments using PIRCS
Laszlo Grunfeld
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Kui-Lam Kwok
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Norbert Dinstl
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Peter Deng
Combining First and Second Order Features in the TREC 2003 Robust Track
Endre Boros
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Paul B. Kantor
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David J. Neu
THUIR at TREC 2003: HARD Experiments
Liang Ma
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Wei Tan
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Qunxiu Chen
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Shaoping Ma
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Shuicai Shi
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Shibin Xiao
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Hongwei Wang
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Hongjun Wang
Approaches to Robust and Web Retrieval
Jaap Kamps
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Christof Monz
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Maarten de Rijke
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Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
University of Glasgow at the Robust Track- A Query-based Model Selection Approach for the Poorly-Performing Queries
Ben He
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Iadh Ounis
UIC at TREC-2003: Robust Track
Shuang Liu
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Clement T. Yu
Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics Experiments
ChengXiang Zhai
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Tao Tao
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Hui Fang
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Zhidi Shang
Task-Specific Query Expansion (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2003)
David L. Yeung
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Charles L. A. Clarke
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Gordon V. Cormack
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Thomas R. Lynam
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Egidio L. Terra
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval
Li Wang
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Weiguo Fan
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Rui Yang
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Wensi Xi
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Ming Luo
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Ye Zhou
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Edward A. Fox