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NIST Special Publication 500-207:

The First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1)

Table of Contents


ABSTRACT vi
PAPERS
1. Overview of the First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-1)
D. Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
1
2. Okapi at TREC
S. Robertson, S. Walker, M. Hancock-Beaulieu, A. Gull, M. Lau (City University, London)
21
3. Query Improvement in Information Retrieval Using Genetic Algorithms -
A Report on the Experiments of the TREC Project
J. Yang, R. Korfhage, B. Rasmussen (University of Pittsburgh)
31
4. Automatic Retrieval With Locality Information Using SMART
C. Buckley, G. Salton, J. Allan (Cornell University)
59
5. Probabilistic Retrieval in the TIPSTER Collections: An Application of Staged
Logistic Regression
W. Cooper, F. Gey, A. Chen (University of California, Berkeley)
73
6. Optimizing Document Indexing and Search Term Weighting Based on
Probabilistic Models
N. Fuhr, C. Buckley (Universitaet Dortmund)
89
7. TIPSTER Panel - - The University of Massachusetts TIPSTER Project
W. B. Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
101
8. TIPSTER Panel - - HNC's MatchPlus System
S. Gallant, R. Recht-Nielson, W. Caid, K. Qing, J. Carleton, D. Sudbeck (HNC, Inc.)
107
9. TIPSTER Panel - - DRLINK's Linguistic-Conceptual Approach to
Document Detection
B. Liddy, S. Myaeng (Syracuse University)
113
10. WORDIJ: A Word Pair Approach to Information Retrieval
J. Danowski (University of Illinois at Chicago)
131
11. LSI meets TREC: A Status Report
S. Dumais (Bellcore)
137
12. Retrieval Experiments with a Large Collection using PIRCS
K. Kwok, L. Papadopoulos, K. Kwan (Queens College, CUNY)
153
13. Natural Language Processing in Large-Scale Text Retrieval Tasks
T. Strzalkowski (New York University)
173
14. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
R. Thompson (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.)
189
15. A Single Language Evaluation of a Multi-Lingual Text Retrieval System
T. Dunning, M. Davis (New Mexico State University)
193
16. The QA System
J. Driscoll, J. Lautenschlager, M. Zhao (University of Central Florida)
199
17. Classification Trees for Document Routing, A Report on the TREC Experiment
R. Tong, A. Winkler, P. Gage (Advanced Decision Systems)
209
18. Compression, Fast indexing, and Structured Queries on a Gigabyte of Text
A. Kent, A. Moffat, R. Sacks-Davis, R. Wilkinson, J. Zobel
(CITHI, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
229
19. Application of the Automatic Message Router to the TIPSTER Collection
R. Jones, S. Leung, D. L. Pape (Australian Computing and Communications Institute)
245
20. CLARIT TREC Design, Experiments, and Results
D. Evans, R. Lefferts, G. Grefenstette, S. Handerson, W. Hersh, A. Archbold
(Carnegie Mellon University)
251
21. Site Report for the Text REtrieval Conference
P. Nelson (ConQuest Software, Inc.)
287
22. A Boolean Approximation Method for Query Construction and Topic
Assignment in TREC
P. Jacobs, G. Krupka, L. Rau (GE Research and Development Center)
297
23. Text Retrieval with the TRW Fast Data Finder
M. Mettler (TRW Systems Development Division)
309
24. Combining Evidence from Multiple Searches
E. Fox, M. Koushik, J. Shaw, R. Modlin, D. Rao (VPI&SU)
319
25. Multilevel Ranking in Large Text Collections Using FMRS
S-C. Chang, H. Dediu, H. Azzam, M-W. Du (GTE Laboratories)
329
26. Description of the PRC CEO Algorithm for TREC
P. Thompson (PRC, Inc.)
337
27. Vector Expansion in a Large Collection
E. Voorhees, Y-W. Hou (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.)
343
28. Proximity-Correlation for Document Ranking:
The PARA Group's TREC Experiment
M. Zimmerman (PARA Group)
353
REPORTS OF DISCUSSION GROUPS
1. Use of Natural Language Processing at TREC 365
2. Automatically Generating Adhoc and Routing Queries 367
3. Machine Learning and Relevance Feedback 369
4. Evaluation Issues 371
APPENDICES
A. TREC-1 Results 373
B. TIPSTER Panel Results 431
C. System Features 435

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Date created: Monday, 18-Sept-00