Table of Contents

• The LIMSI SDR System for TREC-9Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Claude Barras, Gilles Adda, Yannick de Kercadio. [doi]
• kNN at TREC-9Tom Ault, Yiming Yang. [doi]
• TREC-9 Experiments at Maryland: Interactive CLIRDouglas W. Oard, Gina-Anne Levow, Clara I. Cabezas. [doi]
• Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-9 Question Answering TrackAnne Diekema, Xiaoyong Liu, Jiangping Chen, Hudong Wang, Nancy J. McCracken, Ozgur Yilmazel, Elizabeth D. Liddy. [doi]
• Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-9 at Cambridge UniversitySue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland. [doi]
• The TREC-9 Query TrackChris Buckley. [doi]
• The HAIRCUT System at TREC-9Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Christine D. Piatko. [doi]
• Mercure at trec9: Web and Filtering tasksM. Abchiche, Mohand Boughanem, Taoufiq Dkaki, Josiane Mothe, C. Soulé-Dupuy, Mohamed Tmar. [doi]
• YFilter at TREC-9Yi Zhang, James P. Callan. [doi]
• Information Space Based on HTML StructureGregory B. Newby. [doi]
• One Search Engine or Two for Question-AnsweringJohn M. Prager, Eric W. Brown, Dragomir R. Radev, Krzysztof Czuba. [doi]
• Incrementality, Half-life, and Threshold Optimization for Adaptive Document FilteringAvi T. Arampatzis, Jean Beney, Cornelis H. A. Koster, Theo P. van der Weide. [doi]
• The PISAB Question Answering SystemGiuseppe Attardi, Cristian Burrini. [doi]
• Reflections on Aboutness TREC-9 Evaluation Experiments at JustsystemSumio Fujita. [doi]
• FALCON: Boosting Knowledge for Answer EnginesSanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Surdeanu, Razvan C. Bunescu, Roxana Girju, Vasile Rus, Paul Morarescu. [doi]
• Goal-Driven Answer ExtractionMichael Laszlo, Leila Kosseim, Guy Lapalme. [doi]
• TREC-9 Cross Language, Web and Question-Answering Track Experiments using PIRCSKui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. Chan. [doi]
• TREC-9 Cross-Language Information Retrieval (English-Chinese) OverviewFredric C. Gey, Aitao Chen. [doi]
• FDU at TREC-9: CLIR, Filtering and QA TasksLide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yikun Guo, Bingwei Liu, Yuejie Zhang. [doi]
• AT&T at TREC-9Amit Singhal, Marcin Kaszkiel. [doi]
• Question Answering by Passage Selection (MultiText Experiments for TREC-9)Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, D. I. E. Kisman, Thomas R. Lynam. [doi]
• Passive Feedback Collection--An Attempt to Debunk the Myth of ClickthroughsChristopher C. Vogt. [doi]
• Question Answering Using a Large NLP SystemDavid Elworthy. [doi]
• TREC-9 CLIR Experiments at MSRCNJianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun, Yi Su, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang. [doi]
• English-Chinese Cross-Language IR Using Bilingual DictionariesAitao Chen, Hailing Jiang, Fredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Question Answering, Relevance Feedback and Summarisation: TREC-9 Interactive Track ReportNeill Alexander, Craig Brown, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven, Anastasios Tombros. [doi]
• The System RELIEFS: A New Approach for Information FilteringChristophe Brouard, Jian-Yun Nie. [doi]
• IBM s Statistical Question Answering SystemAbraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-Jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Richard J. Mammone. [doi]
• Dublin City University Experiments in Connectivity Analysis for TREC-9Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton. [doi]
• Logical Analysis of Data in the TREC-9 Filtering TrackEndre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, David J. Neu. [doi]
• ACSys/CSIRO TREC-9 ExperimentsDavid Hawking. [doi]
• Further Analysis of Whether Batch and User Evaluations Give the Same Results with a Question-Answering TaskWilliam R. Hersh, Andrew Turpin, Lynetta Sacherek, Daniel Olson, Susan Price, Benjamin Chan, Dale Kraemer. [doi]
• TREC-9 CLIR at CUHK: Disambiguation by Similarity Values Between Adjacent WordsHonglan Jin, Kam-Fai Wong. [doi]
• Fujitsu Laboratories TREC-9 ReportIsao Namba. [doi]
• Structuring and Expanding Queries in the Probabilistic ModelYasushi Ogawa, Hiroko Mano, Masumi Narita, Sakiko Honma. [doi]
• A Simple Question Answering SystemRichard J. Cooper, Stefan M. Rüger. [doi]
• TREC-9 Experiments at KAIST: QA, CLIR and Batch FilteringKyung-Soon Lee, Jong-Hoon Oh, Jin-Xia Huang, Jae-Ho Kim, Key-Sun Choi. [doi]
• Description of NTU QA and CLIR Systems in TREC-9Chuan-Jie Lin, Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• CINDOR TREC-9 English-Chinese EvaluationMiguel E. Ruiz, Steve Rowe, Maurice Forrester, Paraic Sheridan. [doi]
• The TREC-9 Interactive Track ReportWilliam R. Hersh, Paul Over. [doi]
• The Thisl SDR System at TREC-9Steve Renals, Dave Abberley. [doi]
• English-Chinese Information Retrieval at IBMMartin Franz, J. Scott McCarley, Wei-Jing Zhu. [doi]
• Overview of the TREC-9 Web TrackDavid Hawking. [doi]
• QALC--The Question-Answering System of LIMSI-CNRSOlivier Ferret, Brigitte Grau, Martine Hurault-Plantet, Gabriel Illouz, Christian Jacquemin, Nicolas Masson, Paule Lecuyer. [doi]
• Training Context-Sensitive Neural Networks with Few Relevant Examples for the TREC-9 RoutingMathieu Stricker, Frantz Vichot, Gérard Dreyfus, Francis Wolinski. [doi]
• Melbourne TREC-9 ExperimentsDaryl J. D Souza, Michael Fuller, James A. Thom, Phil Vines, Justin Zobel. [doi]
• SabIR Research at TREC-9Chris Buckley, Janet A. Walz. [doi]
• INQUERY and TREC-9James Allan, Margaret E. Connell, W. Bruce Croft, Fangfang Feng, David Fisher, Xiaoyan Li. [doi]
• TREC-9 Cross-lingual Retrieval at BBNJinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel. [doi]
• Another Sys Called QandaEric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Warren R. Greiff, Marc Light, Inderjeet Mani, Jason Rennie. [doi]
• Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-9: Filtering TrackStephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker. [doi]
• Experiments on the TREC-9 Filtering TrackKeiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsumoto, Naomi Inoue, Kazuo Hashimoto, Takashi Hasegawa, Katsuhiko Shirai. [doi]
• Overview of the TREC-9 Question Answering TrackEllen M. Voorhees. [doi]
• Filters and Answers: The University of Iowa TREC-9 ResultsElena Catona, David Eichmann, Padmini Srinivasan. [doi]
• Question Answering in WebclopediaEduard H. Hovy, Laurie Gerber, Ulf Hermjakob, Michael Junk, Chin-Yew Lin. [doi]
• Query Expansion Seen Through Return Order of Relevant DocumentsWalter Liggett, Chris Buckley. [doi]
• The Mirror DBMS at TREC-9Arjen P. de Vries. [doi]
• The TREC-9 Filtering Track Final ReportStephen E. Robertson, David A. Hull. [doi]
• Spoken Document Retrieval Track SlidesJohn S. Garofolo, J. Lard, Ellen M. Voorhees. [doi]
• Syntactic Clues and Lexical Resources in Question-AnsweringKenneth C. Litkowski. [doi]
• Halfway to Question AnsweringWilliam A. Woods, Stephen J. Green, Paul Martin, Ann Houston. [doi]
• IIT TREC-9 - Entity Based Feedback with FusionAbdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, M. Sailee, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder, M. Catherine McCabe, David O. Holmes. [doi]
• University of Sheffield TREC-9 Q&A SystemSam Scott, Robert J. Gaizauskas. [doi]
• NTT DATA TREC-9 Question Answering Track ReportToru Takaki. [doi]
• Report on the TREC-9 Experiment: Link-based Retrieval and Distributed CollectionsJacques Savoy, Yves Rasolofo. [doi]
• Support for Question-Answering in Interactive Information Retrieval: Rutgers TREC-9 Interactive Track ExperienceNicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, Jose Perez Carballo, C. Sikora, Ying Sun. [doi]
• Question Answering Considering Semantic Categories and Co-Occurrence DensitySoo-Min Kim, Dae-Ho Baek, Sang-Beom Kim, Hae-Chang Rim. [doi]
• Sheffield Interactive Experiment at TREC-9Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, Helene Fowkes, Hideo Joho. [doi]
• TNO-UT at TREC-9: How Different are Web Documents?Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld. [doi]