TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing

Abstract

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 routing task in the filtering track. The CLIR method was based on Pirkola's method for Dictionary-based Query Translation, using freely available dictionaries. Broad-coverage parsing and rule-based matching was used for question answering. Routing was performed using Latent Semantic Indexing in profile space.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA456027

Entities

People

  • Dekang Lin
  • Douglas W. Oard
  • Ian Soboroff
  • Jianqiang Wang

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automobiles
  • Computer Science
  • Dictionaries
  • Eating Disorders
  • Health
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Internet
  • Language
  • Machine Translation
  • Maryland
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Remote Sensing
  • Technology Transfer
  • Therapy
  • Web Browsers

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Information Retrieval

Technology Areas

  • Space