Table of Contents

• A Crude Cut at Query ExpansionPhilip Rennert. [doi]
• Overview of the TREC-2002 Web TrackNick Craswell, David Hawking. [doi]
• The TREC-2002 Video Track ReportAlan F. Smeaton, Paul Over. [doi]
• Video Indexing and Retrieval at UMDChristian Wolf, David S. Doermann, Mika Rautiainen. [doi]
• Novelty Track at IRIT-SIGTaoufiq Dkaki, Josiane Mothe, Jérôme Augé. [doi]
• Novel Results and Some Answers - The University of Iowa TREC 11 ResultsDavid Eichmann, Padmini Srinivasan. [doi]
• The TREC 2002 Arabic/English CLIR TrackDouglas W. Oard, Fredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Semantic Feature Extraction using Mpeg Macro-block ClassificationFabrice Souvannavong, Bernard Mérialdo, Benoit Huet. [doi]
• TREC 2002 Interactive Track ReportWilliam R. Hersh. [doi]
• TREC 2002 Cross-lingual Retrieval at BBNAlexander Fraser, Jinxi Xu, Ralph M. Weischedel. [doi]
• UIC at TREC 2002: Web TrackShuang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Wensheng Wu. [doi]
• TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCSKui-Lam Kwok, Peter Deng, Norbert Dinstl, M. Chan. [doi]
• PiQASso 2002Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Formica, Maria Simi, Alessandro Tommasi. [doi]
• Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 2002Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young Kim, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Gheorghe Muresan, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Xiao-Jun Yuan, Colleen Cool. [doi]
• Arabic Information Retrieval at IBMMartin Franz, J. Scott McCarley. [doi]
• IBM Research TREC 2002 Video Retrieval SystemBill Adams, Giridharan Iyengar, Chalapathy Neti, Harriet J. Nock, Arnon Amir, Haim H. Permuter, Savitha Srinivasan, Chitra Dorai, Alejandro Jaimes, Christian A. Lang, Ching-Yung Lin, Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith, Belle L. Tseng, Sugata Ghosal, Raghavendra Singh, T. V. Ashwin, DongQing Zhang. [doi]
• Progress in General-Purpose IR SoftwareGregory B. Newby. [doi]
• ICT Experiments in TREC 11 QA Main TaskHongbo Xu, Hao Zhang, Shuo Bai. [doi]
• Incremental Learning for Profile Training in Adaptive Document FilteringLiang Ma, Qunxiu Chen, Shaoping Ma, Min Zhang, Lianhong Cai. [doi]
• Question Answering Using XML-Tagged DocumentsKenneth C. Litkowski. [doi]
• Overview of TREC 2002Ellen M. Voorhees. [doi]
• University of Glasgow at the Web Track of TREC 2002Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, C. J. van Rijsbergen. [doi]
• TREC 2002 Web Track Automated Word Sense Disambiguation for Internet Information Retrieval Christopher Stokoe, John Tait. [doi]
• The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2002Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura, Jaime G. Carbonell, James P. Callan, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Krzysztof Czuba, Michael Duggan, Laurie Hiyakumoto, N. Hu, Yifen Huang, Jeongwoo Ko, Lucian Vlad Lita, S. Murtagh, Vasco Pedro, David Svoboda. [doi]
• Mining Knowledge from Repeated Co-Occurrences: DIOGENE at TREC 2002Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Roberto Prevete, Hristo Tanev. [doi]
• The TREC 2002 Filtering Track ReportStephen E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff. [doi]
• The YorkQA Prototype Question Answering SystemMarco De Boni, José-Luis Jara-Valencia, Suresh Manandhar. [doi]
• Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2002Richard F. E. Sutcliffe. [doi]
• CLIR Experiments at Maryland for TREC 2002: Evidence Combination for Arabic-English RetrievalKareem Darwish, Douglas W. Oard. [doi]
• Rutgers Filtering Work at TREC 2002: Adaptive and BatchAndrei Anghelescu, Endre Boros, David Lewis, Vladimir Menkov, David J. Neu, Paul B. Kantor. [doi]
• More Statistical Power Needed: The OHSU TREC 2002 Interactive Track ExperimentsWilliam R. Hersh, Susan Moy, Dale Kraemer, Lynetta Sacherek, Daniel Olson. [doi]
• CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in FilteringChristophe Brouard. [doi]
• The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty TracksHong Qi, Jahna Otterbacher, Adam Winkel, Dragomir R. Radev. [doi]
• IRIT at TREC 2002: Filtering TrackMohand Boughanem, Hamid Tebri, Mohamed Tmar. [doi]
• Topic Distillation with Knowledge AgentsEinat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer. [doi]
• Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC 2002 Question Answering TrackAnne Diekema, Jiangping Chen, Nancy J. McCracken, Necati Ercan Ozgencil, Mary D. Taffet, Ozgur Yilmazel, Elizabeth D. Liddy. [doi]
• Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page FindingKevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul Ogilvie, Yi Zhang, Jamie Callan. [doi]
• The University of Sheffield TREC 2002 Q&A SystemMark A. Greenwood, Ian Roberts, Robert J. Gaizauskas. [doi]
• Extracting Answers from the Web Using Data Annotation and Knowledge Mining TechniquesJimmy J. Lin, Aaron Fernandes, Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Stefanie Tellex. [doi]
• TREC 11 Experiments at NII: The Effects of Virtual Relevant Documents in Batch FilteringKyung-Soon Lee, Kyo Kageura, Akiko N. Aizawa. [doi]
• Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering TrackStephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker, Hugo Zaragoza, Ralf Herbrich. [doi]
• Incremental Retrieval of Documents Relevant to a TopicCaroline Lyon, Bob Dickerson, James A. Malcolm. [doi]
• Question Answering Approach Using a WordNet-based Answer Type TaxonomySeung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Sang-Yool Lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee. [doi]
• Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual QuestionsSameer Pradhan, Valerie Krugler, Steven Bethard, Wayne Ward, Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer, Elena Filatova, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Hong Yu, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown, Gabriel Illouz. [doi]
• MITRE s Qanda at TREC-11John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Warren R. Greiff, John C. Henderson, Scott Mardis, Alex Morgan, Marc Light. [doi]
• Video Retrieval Using Global Features in KeyframesMarcus J. Pickering, Daniel Heesch, Stefan M. Rüger, Robert O Callaghan, David R. Bull. [doi]
• The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002Christof Monz, Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke. [doi]
• The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question AnsweringHui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua. [doi]
• TREC 2002 QA at BBN: Answer Selection and Confidence EstimationJinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller, Ralph M. Weischedel. [doi]
• LCC Tools for Question AnsweringDan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagiu, Roxana Girju, Paul Morarescu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Adrian Novischi, Adriana Badulescu, Orest Bolohan. [doi]
• FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video TasksLide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Junyu Niu, Yingju Xia, Zhe Feng, Yaqian Zhou. [doi]
• Statistical Selection of Exact Answers (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2002)Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Graeme Kemkes, M. Laszlo, Thomas R. Lynam, Egidio L. Terra, Philip L. Tilker. [doi]
• CLARIT Experiments in Batch Filtering: Term Selection and Threshold Optimization in IR and SVM FiltersDavid A. Evans, James G. Shanahan, Norbert Roma, Jeffrey Bennett, Victor Sheftel, Emilia Stoica, Jesse Montgomery, David A. Hull, Waibhav Tembe. [doi]
• Augmenting and Limiting Search QueriesElaine G. Toms, Luanne Freund, Cara Li. [doi]
• Building an Arabic Stemmer for Information RetrievalAitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Question-Answering via Enhanced Understanding of QuestionsDan Roth, Chad M. Cumby, Xin Li, Paul Morie, Ramya Nagarajan, Nick Rizzolo, Kevin Small, Wen-tau Yih. [doi]
• CWI at the TREC 2002 Video TrackThijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries, Alex van Ballegooij. [doi]
• Kernel Methods for Document FilteringNicola Cancedda, Cyril Goutte, Jean-Michel Renders, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Alex Conconi, Yaoyong Li, John Shawe-Taylor, Alexei Vinokourov, Thore Graepel, Claudio Gentile. [doi]
• UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty TracksLeah S. Larkey, James Allan, Margaret E. Connell, Alvaro Bolivar, Courtney Wade. [doi]
• UB at TREC 11: Batch and Adaptive FilteringMunirathnam Srikanth, Xiaoyun Wu, Rohini K. Srihari. [doi]
• Overview of the TREC 2002 Question Answering TrackEllen M. Voorhees. [doi]
• Temporal Multi-Resolution Framework for Shot Boundary Detection and Keyframe ExtractionA. Chandrashekhara, Huamin Feng, Tat-Seng Chua. [doi]
• Video Classification and Retrieval with the Informedia Digital Video Library SystemAlexander G. Hauptmann, Rong Yan, Yanjun Qi, Rong Jin, Michael G. Christel, Mark Derthick, Ming-Yu Chen, Robert V. Baron, Wei-Hao Lin, Tobun D. Ng. [doi]
• Automatic Shot Boundary Detection and Classification of Indoor and Outdoor ScenesAndrea Miene, Thorsten Hermes, George T. Ioannidis, R. Fathi, Otthein Herzog. [doi]
• Shot Boundary Detection Using the Moving Query WindowSeyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, James A. Thom, Hugh E. Williams. [doi]
• Example Based Text Matching Methodology for Routing TasksAri Visa, Jarmo Toivonen, Tomi Vesanen, Jarno Mäkinen, Barbro Back, Hannu Vanharanta. [doi]
• Pliers at Trec 2002Andy MacFarlane. [doi]
• IRIT at TREC 2002: Web TrackAnis Benammar, Mohand Boughanem, Gilles Hubert, Cecile Laffaire, Josiane Mothe. [doi]
• JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic RetrievalPaul McNamee, Christine D. Piatko, James Mayfield. [doi]
• The QUANTUM Question Answering System at TREC 11Luc Plamondon, Guy Lapalme, Leila Kosseim. [doi]
• Some Similarity Computation Methods in Novelty DetectionMing-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System DescriptionHideto Kazawa, Tsutomu Hirao, Hideki Isozaki, Eisaku Maeda. [doi]
• Overview of the TREC 2002 Novelty TrackDonna Harman. [doi]
• The Question Answering System QALC at LIMSI, Experiments in Using Web and WordNetGaël de Chalendar, Tiphaine Dalmas, Faiïza Elkateb-Gara, Olivier Ferret, Brigitte Grau, Martine Hurault-Plantet, Gabriel Illouz, Laura Monceaux, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat. [doi]
• TREC Feature Extraction by Active LearningJeroen Vendrig, Ioannis Patras, Cees Snoek, Marcel Worring, Jurgen den Hartog, Stephan Raaijmakers, Jeroen van Rest, David van Leeuwen. [doi]
• Classifier Stacking and Voting for Text FilteringRada Mihalcea. [doi]
• Web Based Pattern Mining and Matching Approach to Question AnsweringDell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee. [doi]
• Using Hierarchical Clustering and Summarisation Approaches for Web Retrieval: Glasgow at the TREC 2002 Interactive TrackRichard Osdin, Iadh Ounis, Ryen W. White. [doi]
• A Multi-Strategy and Multi-Source Approach to Question AnsweringJennifer Chu-Carroll, John M. Prager, Christopher A. Welty, Krzysztof Czuba, David A. Ferrucci. [doi]
• CARROTT 11 and the TREC 11 Web TrackR. Scott Cost, Srikanth Kallurkar, Hemali Majithia, Charles K. Nicholas, Yongmei Shi. [doi]
• IIT at TREC 2002 Linear Combinations Based on Document Structure and Varied Stemming for Arabic RetrievalAbdur Chowdhury, Mohammed Aljlayl, Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder. [doi]
• IBM s Statistical Question Answering System-TREC 11Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos. [doi]
• LIT at TREC 2002: Web TrackNie Yu, Dong-Hong Ji, Lingpeng Yang. [doi]
• TREC 11 Experiments at CAS-ICT: Filtering and WebHongbo Xu, Zhifeng Yang, Bin Wang, Bin Liu, Jun Cheng, Yue Liu, Zhe Yang 0002, Xueqi Cheng, Shuo Bai. [doi]
• Natural Language Based Reformulation Resource and Wide Exploitation for Question AnsweringUlf Hermjakob, Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu. [doi]
• TREC 2002 Video Track Experiments at MediaTeam Oulu and VTTMika Rautiainen, Dmitri Vorobiev, Kai Noponen, Pertti Alvar Väyrynen, Matti Hosio, Esa Matinmikko, Timo Ojala, Tapio Seppänen, Jani Penttilä, Satu-Marja Mäkelä, Johannes Peltola. [doi]
• Dublin City University Video Track Experiments for TREC 2002Paul Browne, Csaba Czirjek, Cathal Gurrin, Roman Jarina, Hyowon Lee, Seán Marlow, Kieran McDonald, Noel Murphy, Noel E. O Connor, Alan F. Smeaton, Jiamin Ye. [doi]
• Finding Named Pages via Frequent Anchor DescriptionsJ. Malawong, Arnon Rungsawang. [doi]
• Web Document Retrieval Using Sentence-Query SimilarityEui-Kyu Park, Seong-In Moon, Dong-Yul Ra, Myung-Gil Jang. [doi]
• THU TREC 2002: Novelty Track ExperimentsMin Zhang, Ruihua Song, Chuan Lin, Shaoping Ma, Zhe Jiang, Yijiang Jin, Yiqun Liu, Le Zhao. [doi]
• Homepage Finding and Topic Distillation Using a Common Retrieval StrategyVo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat. [doi]
• Experiments in Novelty Detection at Columbia UniversityBarry Schiffman. [doi]