Overview of the TREC 2005 Robust Retrieval Track (2005)
Ellen Voorhees National, Ellen M. Voorhees
The robust retrieval track explores methods for improving the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. The retrieval task in the track is a traditional ad hoc...
Question Answering in TREC (2005)
Ellen Voorhees National, Ellen M. Voorhees
This paper provides a brief summary of the ndings of the TREC question answering track to date and discusses the future directions of the track. The paper is extracted from a fuller description of...
Ellen Voorhees National, Ellen M. Voorhees
this paper lists the 103 groups that participated in TREC 2004. The participating groups come from 21 different countries and include academic, commercial, and government institutions
Ellen Voorhees National, Ellen M. Voorhees
This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in detail in the remainder of the proceedings. The next section provides a summary of the retrieval background knowledge that is assumed...
The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report (1999)
Ellen Voorhees National, Ellen M. Voorhees
The TREC-8 Question Answering track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. This paper summarizes the results of the track by giving a brief overview of...
Overview of the TREC 2004 Question Answering Track (1999)
Ellen Voorhees National, Ellen M. Voorhees
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and related to a single...