SP500215 NIST Special Publication 500-215: The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2) Table of Contents table of contents National Institute of Standards and Technology D. K. Harman TABLE OF CONmNTh ABSTRACT................................................................................viii PAPERS 1. Overview of the Second Text REtrieval Confrrence (TREC-2).............................1 D. Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology) 2. OkapiatTREC-2................................................................ S. Robertson, S. Walker, S. Jones, M. Hanoock-Beaulieu, M. Gatford (City University, London) 21 .............35 .............45 .............57 Collection .... 67 .............75 .....85 .101 3. Combining Evidence for Information Retrieval....................... N. Belkin, P. Kantor, C. Cool, R. Quatrain (Rutgers University) 4. Automatic Routing and Ad-hoc Retrieval Using SMART: TREC 2 C. Buckley, J. Allan, G. Salton (Cornell University) 5. Full Text Retrieval based on Probabilistic Equations with Coefficients fitted by Logistic Regression................................................ W. Cooper, A. Chen, F. Gey (University of California, Berkeley) 6. Probabilistic Learning Approaches for Indexing and Retrieval with the TREC-2 N. Fuhr, U. Pfeifer, C. Bremkamp, M. Pollmann (University of Dortmund, Germany) 7. TREC-2 Routing and Ad-Hoc Retrieval Evaluation using the INQUERY System W. Croft, J. Callan, J. Brogho (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 8. DR-LINK: ASystemUpdateforTREC-2 E. Liddy, S. Myaeng (Syracuse University) 9. Feedback and Mixing Experiments with MatchPlus.............................. S. Gallant, W. Caid, J. Carleton, T. Gutschow, R. Hecht-Nielsen, K. Qing, D. Sudbeck (HNC, Inc.) 10. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and TREC-2 S. Dumais (Belloore) 11. An Information Retrieval Test-bed on the CM-S................. B. Masand, C. Stanfill (Thinking Machines Corporation) 12. Recent Developments in Natural Language Text Retrieval T. Strzalkowski, J. Carballo (New York University) 13. Design and Evaluation of the CLARIT-TREC-2 System............. D. Evans, R. Lefferts (Carnegie Mellon University and CLARIT Corporation) 14. Bayesian Inference with Node Aggregation for Information Retrieval B. Del Favero, R. Fung (Institute for Decision Systems Research) v ..................105 ..................117 ..................123 ..................137 ..................151