8. TREC: Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1999

• Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna Harman:
  Overview of the Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8).
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• Martin Braschler, Peter Schäuble, Carol Peters:
  Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview.
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• David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson:
  The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report.
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• David A. Hull, Stephen E. Robertson:
  The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report - Figures.
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• William R. Hersh, Paul Over:
  TREC-8 Interactive Track Report.
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• Chris Buckley, Janet A. Walz:
  The TREC-8 Query Track.
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• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report.
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• Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice:
  The TREC-8 Question Answering Track Evaluation.
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• John S. Garofolo, Cedric G. P. Auzanne, Ellen M. Voorhees:
  The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story.
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• David Hawking, Ellen M. Voorhees, Nick Craswell, Peter Bailey:
  Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track.
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• David Hawking, Ellen M. Voorhees, Nick Craswell, Peter Bailey:
  Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track - Results.
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• Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker:
  Okapi/Keenbow at TREC-8.
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• Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty:
  The Weaver System for Document Retrieval.
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• Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Richard Goodrum, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus:
  LASSO: A Tool for Surfing the Answer Net.
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• Rohini K. Srihari, Wei Li:
  Information Extraction Supported Question Answering.
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• S. E. Johnson, Philip C. Woodland, Karen Sparck Jones, P. Jourlin:
  Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University.
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• Kavi Mahesh, Jacquelynn Kud, Paul Dixon:
  Oracle at Trec8: A Lexical Approach.
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• K. L. Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, M. Chan:
  TREC-8 Ad-Hoc, Query and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS.
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• Jacques Savoy, Justin Picard:
  Report on the TREC-8 Experiment: Searching on the Web and in Distributed Collections.
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• Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann:
  PLIERS at TREC8.
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• Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann:
  PLIERS at TREC8 - Appendix.
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• ChengXiang Zhai, Peter Jansen, Norbert Roma, Emilia Stoica, David A. Evans:
  Optimization in CLARIT TREC-8 Adaptive Filtering.
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• David Eichmann, Padmini Srinivasan:
  Filters, Webs and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-8 Results.
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• Hwee Tou Ng, Huey Ting Ang, Wee Meng Soon:
  DSO at TREC-8: A Hybrid Algorithm for the Routing Task.
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• Isao Namba, Nobuyuki Igata:
  Fujitsu Laboratories TREC8 Report - Ad hoc, Small Web, and Large Web Track.
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• Wessel Kraaij, Renée Pohlmann, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  Twenty-One at TREC-8: using Language Technology for Information Retrieval.
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• Fredric C. Gey, Hailing Jiang:
  English-German Cross-Language Retrieval for the GIRT Collection - Exploiting a Multilingual Thesaurus.
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• David Hawking, Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell:
  ACSys TREC-8 Experiments.
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• Amit Singhal, Steven P. Abney, Michiel Bacchiani, Michael Collins, Donald Hindle, Fernando C. N. Pereira:
  AT&T at TREC-8.
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• M. Siegler, Rong Jin, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  CMU Spoken Document Retrieval in Trec-8: Analysis of the role of Term Frequency TF.
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• David A. Evans, Jeffrey Bennett, Xiang Tong, Alison Huettner, ChengXiang Zhai, Emilia Stoica:
  CLARIT TREC-8 Manual Ad-Hoc Experiments.
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• Yan Qu, Hongming Jin, Alla N. Eilerman, Emilia Stoica, David A. Evans:
  CLARIT TREC-8 CLIR Experiments.
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• Jeffrey Bennett, Xiang Tong, David A. Evans:
  CLARIT TREC-8 Experiments in Searching Web Data.
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• Kenneth C. Litkowski:
  Question-Answering Using Semantic Relation Triples.
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• Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton:
  A Connectivity Analysis Approach to Increasing Precision in Retrieval From Hyperlinked Documents.
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• Martin Braschler, Min-Yen Kan, Peter Schäuble, Judith Klavans:
  The Eurospider Retrieval System and the TREC-8 Cross-Language Track.
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• Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano:
  TREC-8 Automatic Ad-Hoc Experiments at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni.
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• Tomek Strzalkowski, Jose Perez Carballo, Jussi Karlgren, Anette Hulth, Pasi Tapanainen, Timo Lahtinen:
  Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-8 Report.
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• Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Todd Ward:
  Ad hoc, Cross-language and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM.
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• John M. Prager, Dragomir R. Radev, Eric W. Brown, Anni Coden, Valerie Samn:
  The Use of Predictive Annotation for Question Answering in TREC8.
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• M. Catherine McCabe, David O. Holmes, Kenneth L. Alford, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder:
  IIT at TREC-8: Improving Baseline Precision.
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• Stefan M. Rüger:
  Automatic Query Feedback using Related Words.
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• Mathieu Stricker, Frantz Vichot, Gérard Dreyfus, Francis Wolinski:
  Two-Step Feature Selection and Neural Network Classification for the TREC-8 Routing.
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• Mohand Boughanem, Christine Julien, Josiane Mothe, C. Soulé-Dupuy:
  Mercure at trec8: Adhoc, Web, CLIR and Filtering tasks.
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• James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Christine D. Piatko:
  The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8.
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• Arnon Rungsawang, Athichat Tangpong, Pawat Laohawee, Tawa Khampachua:
  Novel Query Expansion Technique using Apriori Algorithm.
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• Keiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsumoto, Naomi Inoue, Kazuo Hashimoto:
  Experiments on the TREC-8 Filtering Track.
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• Olivier Ferret, Brigitte Grau, Gabriel Illouz, Christian Jacquemin, Nicolas Masson:
  QALC - the Question-Answering program of the Language and Cognition group at LIMSI-CNRS.
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• Jean-Luc Gauvain, Yannick de Kercadio, Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda:
  The LIMSI SDR System for TREC-8.
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• Kenney Ng:
  A Maximum Likelihood Ratio Information Retrieval Model.
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• Tom Adi, O. K. Ewell, Patricia Adi:
  High Selectivity and Accuracy with READWARE's Automated System of Knowledge Organization.
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• Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, David House, Marc Light, Inderjeet Mani:
  A Sys Called Qanda.
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• Chuan-Jie Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  Description of Preliminary Results to TREC-8 QA Task.
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• William C. Ogden, James R. Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Sergei Nirenburg, Nigel Sharples, Svetlana Sheremetyeva:
  CRL's TREC-8 Systems Cross-Lingual IR, and Q&A.
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• Toru Takaki:
  NTT DATA: Overview of system approach at TREC-8 ad-hoc and question answering.
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• William R. Hersh, Andrew Turpin, Susan Price, Dale Kraemer, Benjamin Chan, Lynetta Sacherek, Daniel Olson:
  Do Batch and User Evaluations Give the Same Results? An Analysis from the TREC-8 Interactive Track.
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• Yasushi Ogawa, Hiroko Mano, Masumi Narita, Sakiko Honma:
  Structuring and expanding queries in the probabilistic model.
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• Michael Fuller, Marcin Kaszkiel, Sam Kimberley, Corinna Ng, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu, Justin Zobel:
  The RMIT/CSIRO Ad Hoc, Q&A, Web, Interactive, and Speech Experiments at TREC 8.
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• Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, J. Head, J. Jeng, Diane Kelly, Shin-jeng Lin, L. Lobash, Soyeon Park, Pamela A. Savage-Knepshield, C. Sikora:
  Relevance Feedback versus Local Context Analysis as Term Suggestion Devices: Rutgers' TREC-8 Interactive Track Experience.
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• Brian D. Davison, Apostolos Gerasoulis, Konstantinos Kleisouris, Yingfang Lu, Hyun-ju Seo, Junyu Tian, Song Wang, Wei Wang, Baohua Wu:
  An Early DiscoWeb Prototype at TREC8.
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• Chris Buckley, Janet A. Walz:
  SMART in TREC 8.
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• Dong-Ho Shin, Yu-Hwan Kim, Sun Kim, Jae-Hong Eom, Hyung-Joo Shin, Byoung-Tak Zhang:
  SCAI TREC-8 Experiments.
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• Benjamin Han, Ramya Nagarajan, Rohini K. Srihari, Srikanth Munirathnam:
  TREC-8 Experiments at SUNY Buffalo.
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• Miguel E. Ruiz, Anne Diekema, Paraic Sheridan:
  CINDOR Conceptual Interlingua Document Retrieval: TREC-8 Evaluation.
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• Jian-Yun Nie:
  CLIR using a Probabilistic Translation Model based on Web Documents.
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• Ray R. Larson:
  Berkeley's TREC 8 Interactive Track Entry: Cheshire II and Zprise.
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• Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Dekang Lin, Ian Soboroff:
  TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing.
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• James Allan, James P. Callan, Fangfang Feng, Daniella Malin:
  INQUERY and TREC-8.
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• Kiduk Yang, Kelly Maglaughlin:
  IRIS at TREC-8.
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• Gregory B. Newby:
  Moving More Quickly toward Full Term Relations in Information Space.
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• Mark E. Rorvig:
  Retrieval Performance and Visual Dispersion of Query Sets.
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• Joel D. Martin, Chris Lankester:
  Ask Me Tomorrow: The NRC and University of Ottawa Question Answering System.
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• Thomas S. Morton:
  Using Coreference in Question Answering.
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• Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Helene Fowkes, Nega Alemayehu, Mark Sanderson:
  Interactive Okapi at Sheffield - TREC-8.
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• Dave Abberley, Steve Renals, Dan Ellis, Anthony J. Robinson:
  The THISL SDR System At TREC-8.
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• Kevin Humphreys, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple, Mark Sanderson:
  University of Sheffield TREC-8 Q&A System.
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• Khurshid Ahmad, Lee Gillam, Lena Tostevin:
  University of Surrey Participation in TREC8: Weirdness Indexing for Logical Document Extrapolation and Retrieval (WILDER).
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• Arjen P. de Vries, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  The Mirror DBMS at TREC-8.
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• Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, D. I. E. Kisman, Christopher R. Palmer:
  Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8).
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• David A. Hull:
  Xerox TREC-8 Question Answering Track Report.
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