INQUERY and TREC-8
Abstract
This year the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts participated in seven of the tracks: ad-hoc, filtering, spoken document retrieval, small web, large web, question and answer, and the query tracks. We spent significant time working on the filtering track, resulting in substantial performance improvement over TREC-7. For all of the other tracks, we used essentially the same system as used in previous years. Although UMass used a wide rauge of tools, from Unix shell script, to PC spreadsheets, four major tools and techniques were applied across almost all tracks: the Inquery search engine, the InRoute filtering engine, query processing, and a query expansion technique known as Local Context Analysis (LCA).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA456320
Entities
People
- Daniella Malin
- Fang-fang Feng
- James Allan
- Jamie Callan
Organizations
- University of Massachusetts Amherst