Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, Ian Soboroff
The rise of blogging as a new grassroots publishing medium and the many interesting peculiarities that characterise blogs compared to other genres of documents opened up several new interesting...
TREC REPORT The TREC Terabyte Retrieval Track (2009)
Charles Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff
The Terabyte Retrieval Track of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) provides an opportunity to test retrieval techniques and evaluation methodologies in the context of a terabyte-scale corpus. Given...
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff
This article describes a new TREC Enterprise Track search test collection – CERC. The collection is designed to represent some real-world search activity within the enterprise, using as a specific...
Stephen Robertson, Ian Soboroff
The TREC–11 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents in an incoming stream. It consists of...
Abstract Overview of the TREC 2004 Novelty Track (2008)
TREC 2004 marks the third and final year for the novelty track. The task is as follows: Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that...
Abstract Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track (2008)
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...
ABSTRACT Building a Filtering Test Collection for TREC 2002 (2008)
Test collections for the filtering track in TREC have typically used either past sets of relevance judgments, or categorized collections such as Reuters Corpus Volume 1 or OHSUMED, because filtering...
ITTALKS: A Case Study in the SemanticWeb and DAML (2008)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Overview of the TREC 2004 Novelty Track (2008)
Ian Soboro National, Ian Soboroff
TREC 2004 marks the third and final year for the novelty track. The task is as follows: Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that...
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing (2007)
Douglas Oard Jianqiang, Jianqiang Wang, Dekang Lin, Ian Soboroff
The University of Maryland team participated in four aspects of TREC-8: the ad hoc retrieval task, the main task in the cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track, the question answering track, and the...
ITtalks: A Case Study in the Semantic Web (2007)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
languages will improve the automated gathering and processing of information and help integrate multiagent systems with the existing information infrastructure. In this article, the authors describe...
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...
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing (2006)
Oard, Douglas W., Wang, Jianqiang, Lin, Dekang, Soboroff, Ian
The University of Maryland team participated in four aspects of TREC-8: the ad hoc retrieval task, the main task in the cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track, the question answering track, and the...
Overview of the TREC 2006 blog track (2006)
Iadh Ounis, Maarten De Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne, Ian Soboroff
The rise on the Internet of blogging, the creation of journal-like web page logs, has created a highly dynamic subset of the World Wide Web that evolves and responds to real-world events. Indeed,...
Overview of the TREC 2006 blog track (2006)
Iadh Ounis, Maarten De Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne, Ian Soboroff
The rise on the Internet of blogging, the creation of journal-like web page logs, has created a highly dynamic subset of the World Wide Web that evolves and responds to real-world events. Indeed,...
Overview of the TREC 2006 blog track (2006)
Iadh Ounis, Maarten De Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne, Ian Soboroff
The rise on the Internet of blogging, the creation of journal-like web page logs, has created a highly dynamic subset of the World Wide Web that evolves and responds to real-world events. Indeed,...
The TREC 2005 Terabyte Track (2005)
This report provides an overview of each task, summarizes the results and discusses directions for the future. Further background information on the development of the track can be found in last...
The TREC Terabyte retrieval track (2005)
Charles Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff
The Terabyte Retrieval Track of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) provides an opportunity to test retrieval techniques and evaluation methodologies in the context of a terabyte-scale corpus. Given...
Novelty Detection: The TREC Experience (2005)
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)
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...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
The TREC 2002 filtering track report (2002)
Stephen Robertson, Ian Soboroff
The TREC--11 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents in an incoming stream. It consists of...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...
Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...
Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of "Semantic Web " markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language...
Do TREC web collections look like the web (2002)
We measure the WT10g test collection, used in the TREC-9 and TREC 2001 Web Tracks, and the.GOV test collection used in the TREC 2002 Web and Interactive Tracks, with common measures used in the web...
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing (2000)
Oard, Douglas W., Wang, Jianqiang, Lin, Dekang, Soboroff, Ian
The University of Maryland team participated in four aspects of TREC-8: the ad hoc retrieval task, the main task in the cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track, the question answering track, and the...
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing (2000)
Oard, Douglas W., Wang, Jianqiang, Lin, Dekang, Soboroff, Ian
The University of Maryland team participated in four aspects of TREC-8: the ad hoc retrieval task, the main task in the cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track, the question answering track, and the...
TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing (2000)
Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Dekang Lin, Ian Soboroff
The University of Maryland team participated in four aspects of TREC-8: the ad hoc retrieval task, the main task in the cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track, the question answering track, and the...
Interactive volumetric information visualization for Document corpus management (1999)
Christopher D. Shaw, James M. Kukla, Ian Soboroff, David S. Ebert, Davids. Ebert, Amen Zwa, ...
. This paper describes aminimally immersive three-dimensional volumetric interactive information visualization system for management and analysis of document corpora. The system, SFA, uses...
An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration (1999)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration (1999)
Scott Cost Tim, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
ITTALKS: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML (1998)
Cost, R. S., Finin, Tim, Joshi, Anupam, Peng, Yun, Nicholas, Charles, Soboroff, Ian, ...
Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of Semantic Web markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such languages will...
Jackal: A JAVA-based tool for agent development (1998)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Data visualization using automatic, perceptually-motivated shapes (1998)
Christopher D. Shaw, David S. Ebert, James M. Kukla, Amen Zwa, Ian Soboroff, D. Aaron Roberts
This paper describes a new technique for the multi-dimensional visualization of data through automatic procedural generation of glyph shapes based on mathematical functions. Our glyph-based...
Data visualization using automatic, perceptually-motivated shapes (1998)
Christopher D. Shaw, David S. Ebert, James M. Kukla, Amen Zwa, Ian Soboroff, D. Aaron Roberts
This paper describes a new technique for the multi-dimensional visualization of data through automatic procedural generation of glyph shapes based on mathematical functions. Our glyph-based...
Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development (1998)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, ...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development (1998)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller
Abstract. Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Jeegar Lakhani, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Jeegar Lakhani, ...
In the past few years, the explosive growth of the Internet has allowed the construction of "virtual" systems containing hundreds or thousands of individual, relatively inexpensive...
TKQML: A KQML Extension to Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
Automatic Shape Interpolation for Glyph-based Information Visualization (1997)
David S Ebert, James M Kukla, Christopher D Shaw, Amen Zwa, Ian Soboroff, D Aaron Roberts
Information visualization of multivariate data is a difficult task. Glyph-based rendering is an attempt to discretize the data visually so that individual visual elements of the final display such as...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
pplications into a distributed framework, using KQML as a communication language. Tcl's embeddable nature allows one to easily add agent communication facilities to existing code. As such, TKQML...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents (1997)
Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas
Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond...
Agent Development Support for Tcl (1997)
R. Scott Cost, Ian Soboroff, Jeegar Lakhani, Tim Finin, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas, ...
In the past few years, the explosive growth of the Internet has allowed the construction of "virtual" systems containing hundreds or thousands of individual, relatively inexpensive...
Russell Turner, Enrico Gobbetti, Ian Soboroff
In this paper, we demonstrate how a new interactive 3D desktop metaphor based on two-handed 3D direct manipulation registered with head-tracked stereo viewing can be applied to the task of...
Russell Turner, Enrico Gobbetti, Ian Soboroff
In this paper, we demonstrate how a new interactive 3D desktop metaphor based on two-handed 3D direct manipulation registered with head-tracked stereo viewing can be applied to the task of...