Donna Harman

Publication List Details

Period

1990 - 2008

Number

25

Co-Authors

Abstract Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track (2008)

Ian Soboroff, Donna Harman

The novelty track was first introduced in TREC 2002. Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that should be returned to the user from...

Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track (2007)

Ian Soboro And, Ian Soboro, Donna Harman

The novelty track was first introduced in TREC 2002. Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that should be returned to the user from...

Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track (2007)

Ian Soboro And, Ian Soboroff, Donna Harman

The novelty track was first introduced in TREC 2002. Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that should be returned to the user from...

Bibliography Published Papers by Dragomir R. Radev References (2007)

Dragomir R. Radev, Alfred Aho, Shih-fu Chang, Kathleen Mckeown, Dragomir Radev, Bruce Croft, ...

[5] Suresh Bhavnani, Karen Drabenstott, and Dragomir Radev. Towards a unified framework of IR tasks and strategies. In 2001 ASIST Annual

Novelty Detection: The TREC Experience (2005)

Ian Soboroff, Donna Harman

A challenge for search systems is to detect not only when an item is relevant to the user’s information need, but also when it contains something new which the user has not seen before. In the TREC...

Novelty Detection: The TREC Experience (2005)

Ian Soboroff, Donna Harman

A challenge for search systems is to detect not only when an item is relevant to the user’s information need, but also when it contains something new which the user has not seen before. In the TREC...

Overview of the TREC 2002 novelty track (2002)

Donna Harman

The novelty track was a new track in TREC-11. The basic task was as follows: given a TREC topic and an ordered list of relevant documents (ordered by relevance ranking), nd the relevant and...

The Evaluation of Systems for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (2000)

Martin Braschler, Donna Harman, Michael Hess, Michael Kluck, Carol Peters, Peter Schäuble

We describe the creation of an infrastructure for the testing of cross-language text retrieval systems within the context of the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC) organised by the US National...

The Evaluation of Systems for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (2000)

Martin Braschler, Donna Harman, Michael Hess, Michael Kluck, Carol Peters, Peter Schäuble

We describe the creation of an infrastructure for the testing of cross-language text retrieval systems within the context of the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC) organised by the US National...

What We Have Learned, and Not Learned, from TREC (2000)

Donna Harman

The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), started in 1992, is a workshop series designed to encourage research on text retrieval for realistic applications by providing large test collections, uniform...

Overview of the Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8) (2000)

Ellen Voorhees Donna, Donna Harman

This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in detail in the remainder of the volume. It concentrates on the main task, ad hoc retrieval, which is defined in the next section....

Results and Challenges in Web Search Evaluation (1999)

David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul Thistlewaite, Donna Harman

A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This collection is being...

Results and challenges in Web search evaluation (1999)

David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul Thistlewaite, Donna Harman

A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This collection is being...

Overview of the Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7) (1998)

Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna Harman

This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in detail in the remainder of the volume. It concentrates mainly on the main task, ad hoc retrieval, which is defined the next section....

Overview of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) (1998)

Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna Harman

This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in detail in the remainder of the volume. The next section defines the common retrieval tasks performed in TREC-6. Sections 3 and 4...

The TREC Experiments and their Impact on Europe (1997)

Alan F. Smeaton, Donna Harman

: Information retrieval (IR) research on text collections has concentrated on improving the effectiveness of the indexing and retrieval operations. For the most part, the evaluation of IR systems has...

Overview of the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5) (1997)

Ellen Voorhees, Donna Harman

This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in detail in the remainder of the volume. The next section defines the common retrieval tasks performed in TREC-5. Sections 3 and 4...

Space and Time Improvements for Indexing in Information Retrieval (1995)

Willie Rogers, Gerald Candela, Gerald C, Donna Harman

When indexing large text collections minimizing the indexing time and the disk storage used to create an index remains important. Indexing optimizations applied to a prototype retrieval system at...

User-friendly systems instead of user-friendly front ends (1992)

Donna Harman

Most commercial online retrieval systems are not de-signed to service end users and, therefore, have often built “front-ends ” to their systems specifically to serve the end-user market. These...

How effective is suffixing (1991)

Donna Harman

The interaction of suffixing algorithms and ranking techniques in retrieval performance, particularly in an online environment, was investigated. Three general purpose suffixing algorithms were used...

Retrieving records from a gigabyte of text on a minicomputer using statistical ranking (1990)

Donna Harman, Gerald C

Statistically based ranked retrieval of records using keywords provides many advantages over traditional Boolean retrieval methods, especially for end users. This approach to retrieval, however, has...