Table of Contents

• The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategh Approach with Dynamic PlanningEric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura, James P. Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell, Robert E. Frederking, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Laurie Hiyakumoto, Yifen Huang, Curtis Huttenhower, Scott Judy, Jeongwoo Ko, Anna Kupsc, Lucian Vlad Lita, Vasco Pedro, David Svoboda, Benjamin Van Durme. [doi]
• Overview of TREC 2003Ellen M. Voorhees. 1-13 [doi]
• TREC GENOMICS Track OverviewWilliam R. Hersh, Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju. 14-23 [doi]
• HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003: High Accuracy Retrieval from DocumentsJames Allan. 24-37 [doi]
• Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty TrackIan Soboroff, Donna Harman. 38-53 [doi]
• Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering TrackEllen M. Voorhees. 54-68 [doi]
• Overview of the TREC 2003 Robust Retrieval TrackEllen M. Voorhees. 69-77 [doi]
• Recognizing Gene and Protein Function in MEDLINE AbstractsRichard D. Hull, Larry F. Waldman. 93-97 [doi]
• TREC 2003 QA at BBN: Answering Definitional QuestionsJinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Ralph M. Weischedel. 98-106 [doi]
• REGEN: Retrieval and Extraction of Genomics DataRocio Guillén, Tasnim Ferdous. 107-116 [doi]
• TREC12 HARD Track at ISCASZeng Wu, Lin Du, Le Sun, Shiwei Ye. 117-125 [doi]
• NLPR at TREC 2003: Novelty and RobustQianli Jin, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu. 126-137 [doi]
• TREC 2003 Novelty and Web Track at ICTJian Sun, Zhe Yang 0002, Wenfeng Pan, Huaping Zhang, Bin Wang, Xueqi Cheng. 138-146 [doi]
• TREC 2003 Question Answering Track at CAS-ICTYi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai. 147-151 [doi]
• Clairvoyance Corporation Experiments in the TREC 2003 High Accuracy Retrieval from Douments (HARD) TrackJames G. Shanahan, Jeffrey Bennett, David A. Evans, David A. Hull, Jesse Montgomery. 152-160 [doi]
• Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty TasksKenneth C. Litkowski. 161-176 [doi]
• Combining Structural Information and the Use of Priors in Mixed Named-Page and Homepage FindingPaul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan. 177-184 [doi]
• A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional QuestionsSasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer. 185-192 [doi]
• TREC12 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRONick Craswell, David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Alistair McLean, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu. 193-203 [doi]
• On the Use of MeSH Headings to Improve Retrieval EffectivenessStephen Blott, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Thomas Sødring. 215-224 [doi]
• Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2003: Robust and Web TrackGiambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano. 234-245 [doi]
• FDUQA on TREC2003 QA taskLide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou, Yongping Du, Lan You. 246-253 [doi]
• Robust, Web and Genomic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer at TREC 2003Stephen Tomlinson. 254-267 [doi]
• Juru at TREC 2003 - Topic Distillation using Query-Sensitive Tuning and Cohesiveness FilteringEinat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Michael Herscovici, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer, Reiner Kraft, Jason Y. Zien. 276-282 [doi]
• IBM s PIQUANT in TREC2003John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, Christopher A. Welty, Abraham Ittycheriah, Ruchi Mahindru. 283-292 [doi]
• From TREC to DUC to TREC AgainJohn M. Conroy, Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O Leary. 293-302 [doi]
• Generic Text Summarization Using Wordnet for Novelty and HardGanesh Ramakrishnan, Kedar Bellare, Chirag Shah, Deepa Paranjpe. 303-304 [doi]
• Passage Scoring for Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical RelationsDeepa Paranjpe, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sumana Srinivasan. 305-210 [doi]
• IIT at TREC 2003, Task Classification and Document Structrure for Known-Item SearchSteven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Rebecca Cathey, Ling Ma, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury, Greg Pass, Herman Vandermolen. 311-320 [doi]
• Identifying Gene Function Descriptions by Probability-based Sentence SelectionKazuhiro Seki, Nihar Sheth, Javed Mostafa. 321-327 [doi]
• WIDIT in TREC-2003 Web TrackKiduk Yang, Dan E. Albertson. 328-336 [doi]
• Mercure at TREC 2003 Web track - Topic Distillation TaskMohand Boughanem, Karen Sauvagnat, Cecile Laffaire. 343-348 [doi]
• ITC-irst at TREC 2003: the DIOGENE QA SystemMilen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev. 349-357 [doi]
• Combining Methods for the TREC 2003 Robust TrackJames Mayfield, Paul McNamee. 358-362 [doi]
• Report on the TREC 2003 Experiments Using Web Topic-Centric Link AnalysisParicha Ingongngam, Arnon Rungsawang. 363-367 [doi]
• Biomedical Text Retrieval System at Korea UniversityYoung-In Song, Kyoung-Soo Han, Hee-Cheol Seo, Sang-Bum Kim, Hae-Chang Rim. 368-374 [doi]
• Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive ReasoningSanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Mitchell Bowden, John Williams, Jeremy Bensley. 375-382 [doi]
• A Non-Functional Prototype at TREC 2003Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Josh Miller. 383-385 [doi]
• The Role and Meaning of Predicative and Non-Predicative Definitions in the Search for InformationIlya S. Geller. 386-391 [doi]
• AnswerFinder in TREC 2003Diego Mollá Aliod. 392-398 [doi]
• Meiji University Web and Novelty Track Experiments at TREC 2003Ryosuke Ohgaya, Akiyoshi Shimmura, Tomohiro Takagi, Akiko N. Aizawa. 399-407 [doi]
• Microsoft Research Asia at the Web Track of TREC 2003Ji-Rong Wen, Ruihua Song, Deng Cai, Kaihua Zhu, Shipeng Yu, Shaozhi Ye, Wei-Ying Ma. 408-417 [doi]
• Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-12: HARD trackStephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor. 418-425 [doi]
• Integrating Web-based and Corpus-based Techniques for Question AnsweringBoris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Daniel Loreto, Wesley Hildebrandt, Matthew W. Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton, Federico Mora. 426-435 [doi]
• MITRE s Qanda at TREC-12John D. Burger. 436-440 [doi]
• Methods for Accurate Retrieval of MEDLINE Citations in Functional GenomicsMehmet Kayaalp, Alan R. Aronson, Susanne M. Humphrey, Nicholas C. Ide, Lorraine K. Tanabe, Lawrence H. Smith, Dina Demner-Fushman, Russell R. Loane, James G. Mork, Olivier Bodenreider. 441-450 [doi]
• Finiding Gene Function using LitMinerBerry de Bruijn, Joel D. Martin. 451-459 [doi]
• Experiments in TREC 2003 Genomics Track at NTTHirotoshi Taira, Tomonori Izumitani, Tsutomu Hirao, Hideki Isozaki, Hideto Kazawa, Eisaku Maeda. 460-467 [doi]
• SVM Approach to GeneRIF AnnotationWen-Juan Hou, Chun-Yuan Teng, Chih Lee, Hsin-Hsi Chen. 468-473 [doi]
• Approach of Information Retrieval with Reference Corpus to Novelty DetectionMing-Feng Tsai, Ming-Hung Hsu, Hsin-Hsi Chen. 474-479 [doi]
• QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main TaskHui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua. 480-488 [doi]
• A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question AnsweringDell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee. 489-495 [doi]
• Océ at TREC 2003Pascha Iljin, Roel Brand, Samuel Driessen, Jakob Klok. 496-502 [doi]
• Phrases, Boosting, and Query Expansion Using External Knowledge Resources for Genomic Information RetrievalWilliam R. Hersh, Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju, Susan Price. 503-509 [doi]
• Partioning a Graph of Sequences, Structures and Abstracts for Information RetrievalAynur A. Dayanik, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Rose Oughtred. 522-531 [doi]
• Rutgers HARD and Web Interactive Track Experiments at TREC 2003Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Yuelin Li, Gheorghe Muresan, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Xiao-Jun Yuan, Xiao-Min Zhang. 532-543 [doi]
• Combining First and Second Order Features in the TREC 2003 Robust TrackEndre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, David J. Neu. 544-546 [doi]
• Knowledge-Based Access to the Bio-Medical Literature, Ontologically-Grounded Experiments for the TREC 2003 Genomics TrackRichard Tong, John Quackenbush, Mark Snuffin. 547-551 [doi]
• THUIR at TREC 2003: HARD ExperimentsLiang Ma, Wei Tan, Qunxiu Chen, Shaoping Ma, Shuicai Shi, Shibin Xiao, Hongwei Wang, Hongjun Wang. 552-555 [doi]
• THUIR at TREC 2003: Novelty, Robust and WebMin Zhang, Chuan Lin, Yiqun Liu, Leo Zhao, Shaoping Ma. 556-567 [doi]
• Document Structure with IR ToolsGregory B. Newby. 568-577 [doi]
• Questioning Answering By Pattern Matching, Web-Proofing, Semantic Form ProofingMin Wu, Xiaoyu Zheng, Michelle Duan, Ting Liu, Tomek Strzalkowski. 578-585 [doi]
• The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2003 Question Answering TrackValentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, Oren Tsur. 586-593 [doi]
• Approaches to Robust and Web RetrievalJaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. 594-599 [doi]
• Bangor at TREC 2003: Q&A and Genomics TracksTerence Clifton, Alex Colquhoun, William John Teahan. 600-611 [doi]
• BioText Team Report for the TREC 2003 Genomics TrackGaurav Bhalotia, Preslav Nakov, Ariel S. Schwartz, Marti A. Hearst. 612-621 [doi]
• Edinburgh-Stanford TREC-2003 Genomics TrackMiles Osborne, Mark Cuminskey, Gail Sinclair, Matthew Smillie, Bonnie L. Webber, Jeffrey T. Chang, Nipun Mehra, Veronica Rotemberg, Russ B. Altman. 622-630 [doi]
• QED: The Edinburgh TREC-2003 Question Answering SystemJochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, James R. Curran, Stephen Clark, Colin J. Bannard, Bonnie L. Webber, Mark Steedman. 631-635 [doi]
• University of Glasgow at the Robust Track- A Query-based Model Selection Approach for the Poorly-Performing QueriesBen He, Iadh Ounis. 636-645 [doi]
• University of Glasgow at the Web Track: Dynamic Application of Hyperlink Analysis using the Query ScopeVassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen, Fidel Cacheda. 646-652 [doi]
• UIC at TREC-2003: Robust TrackShuang Liu, Clement T. Yu. 653-661 [doi]
• Active Feedback - UIUC TREC-2003 HARD ExperimentsXuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai. 662-666 [doi]
• Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics ExperimentsChengXiang Zhai, Tao Tao, Hui Fang, Zhidi Shang. 667-672 [doi]
• Relevance Propagation for Topic Distillation UIUC TREC 2003 Web Track ExperimentsAzadeh Shakery, ChengXiang Zhai. 673-677 [doi]
• Experiments in Novelty, Genes and Questions at the University of IowaDavid Eichmann, Padmini Srinivasan, Marc Light, Hudong Wang, Xin Ying Qiu, Robert J. Arens, Aditya Kumar Sehgal. 678-685 [doi]
• UMBC at TREC 12Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Charles K. Nicholas, Akshay Java, Christopher James, Sowjanya Rajavaram, Vishal Shanbhag, Sachin Bhatkar, Drew Ogle. 699-706 [doi]
• HARD Experiment at Maryland: From Need Negotiation to Automated HARD ProcessDaqing He, Dina Demner-Fushman. 707-714 [doi]
• UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QANasreen Abdul Jaleel, Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, Qi Li, Xiaoyong Liu, Courtney Wade, James Allan. 715-725 [doi]
• Robust and Web Retrieval with Document-Centric Integral ImpactsVo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat. 726-731 [doi]
• The University of Michigan at TREC 2003Jahna Otterbacher, Hong Qi, Ali Hakim, Dragomir R. Radev. 732-738 [doi]
• Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic and Web SearchesJacques Savoy, Yves Rasolofo, Laura Perret. 739-750 [doi]
• UB at TREC 12: HARD and Genomics TracksMunirathnam Srikanth, Miguel E. Ruiz, Rohini K. Srihari. 751-755 [doi]
• Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic TrackPatrick Ruch, Gilles Cohen, Frédéric Ehrler, Henning Müller, Giovanni Coray, Hatem Ghorbel, Vincenzo Pallotta, Christine Chichester. 756-761 [doi]
• QA UdG-UPC System at TREC-12Marc Massot, Horacio Rodríguez, Daniel Ferrés. 762-771 [doi]
• Multiple-Engine Question Answering in TextMapAbdessamad Echihabi, Ulf Hermjakob, Eduard H. Hovy, Daniel Marcu, Eric Melz, Deepak Ravichandran. 772-781 [doi]
• The University of Sheffield s TREC 2003 Q&A ExperimentsRobert J. Gaizauskas, Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Hepple, Ian Roberts, Horacio Saggion, Matthew Sargaison. 782-790 [doi]
• Towards a Sense Based Document Representation for Internet Information RetrievalChristopher Stokoe, John Tait. 791-795 [doi]
• TREC 2003 Genomics Track Experiments at UTA: Query Expansion with Predefinded High Frequency TermsAri Pirkola, Erkka Leppänen. 796-805 [doi]
• Task-Specific Query Expansion (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2003)David L. Yeung, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam, Egidio L. Terra. 810-819 [doi]
• Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD TasksOlga Vechtomova, Eric Lam, Murat Karamuftuoglu. 820-827 [doi]
• Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust RetrievalLi Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, Edward A. Fox. 828-836 [doi]
• VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track ReportRui Yang, Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, Edward A. Fox. 837 [doi]