16. TREC: Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2007

Overview Papers

• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Overview of TREC 2007.
  
• Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Ian Soboroff:
  Overview of the TREC 2007 Blog Track.
  
• Peter Bailey, Arjen P. de Vries, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff:
  Overview of the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track.
  
• William R. Hersh, Aaron M. Cohen, Lynn Ruslen, Phoebe M. Roberts:
  TREC 2007 Genomics Track Overview.
  
• Stephen Tomlinson, Douglas W. Oard, Jason R. Baron, Paul Thompson:
  Overview of the TREC 2007 Legal Track.
  
• James Allan, Ben Carterette, Blagovest Dachev, Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas:
  Million Query Track 2007 Overview.
  
• Hoa Trang Dang, Diane Kelly, Jimmy J. Lin:
  Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track.
  
• Gordon V. Cormack:
  TREC 2007 Spam Track Overview.
  

Other Papers

• Luis Tari, Phan Huy Tu, Barry Lumpkin, Robert Leaman, Graciela Gonzalez, Chitta Baral:
  Passage Relevancy Through Semantic Relatedness.
  
• Xiangwen Liao, Donglin Cao, Yu Wang, Wei Liu, Songbo Tan, Hongbo Xu, Xueqi Cheng:
  Experiments in TREC 2007 Blog Opinion Task at CAS-ICT.
  
• Kang Liu, Gen Wang, Xianpei Han, Jun Zhao:
  NLPR in TREC 2007 Blog Track.
  
• Huawei Shen, Guoyao Chen, Haiqiang Chen, Yue Liu, Xueqi Cheng:
  Research on Enterprise Track of TREC 2007.
  
• Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell:
  Retrieval and Feedback Models for Blog Distillation.
  
• Yangbo Zhu, Le Zhao, Jamie Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell:
  Stuctured Queries for Legal Search.
  
• Nico Schlaefer, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Manas A. Pathak, Eric Nyberg, Guido Sautter:
  Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA System for TREC 2007.
  
• Jonathan Schuman, Sabine Bergler:
  Interactive Retrieval Using Weights.
  
• Majid Razmara, Andrew Fee, Leila Kosseim:
  Concordia University at the TREC 2007 QA Track.
  
• Peter Bailey, Deepak Agrawal, Anuj Kumar:
  TREC 2007 Enterprise Track at CSIRO.
  
• Rui Song, Tang Qin, Daming Shi, Hongfei Lin, Zhihao Yang:
  DUTIR at TREC 2007 Blog Track.
  
• Jianmei Chen, Hui Ren, Linhong Xu, Hongfei Lin, Zhihao Yang:
  DUTIR at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track.
  
• Zhihao Yang, Hongfei Lin, Baojin Cui, Yanpeng Li, Xiao Zhang:
  DUTIR at TREC 2007 Genomics Track.
  
• Wei-Ming Chen, Paul Thompson:
  Dartmouth College at TREC 2007 Legal Track.
  
• Protima Banerjee, Hyoil Han:
  Drexel at TREC 2007: Question Answering.
  
• Antonio Jimeno, Piotr Pezik:
  Information Retrieval and Information Extraction in TREC Genomics 2007.
  
• Aliaksei Bondarionok, Anatoly Bobkov, Liudmila Sudanova, Pavel Mazur, Tatsiana Samuseva:
  Intellexer Question Answering.
  
• Naveen Singla, Ronald S. Indeck:
  Exegy at TREC 2007 Million Query Track.
  
• Stephen Taylor, Orlando Montalvo-Huhn, Nikhil Kartha:
  FSC at TREC.
  
• Gianni Amati, Edgardo Ambrosi, Marco Bianchi, Carlo Gaibisso, Giorgio Gambosi:
  FUB, IASI-CNR and University of Tor Vergata at TREC 2007 Blog Track.
  
• Qi Zhang, Bingqing Wang, Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang:
  FDU at TREC 2007: Opinion Retrieval of Blog Track.
  
• Jun Xu, Jing Yao, Jiaqian Zheng, Qi Sun, Junyu Niu:
  WIM at TREC 2007.
  
• Xipeng Qiu, Bo Li, Chao Shen, Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou:
  FDUQA on TREC 2007 QA Track.
  
• Doron Cohen, Einat Amitay, David Carmel:
  Lucene and Juru at TREC 2007: 1-Million Queries Track.
  
• Kiduk Yang, Ning Yu, Hui Zhang:
  WIDIT in TREC 2007 Blog Track: Combining Lexicon-Based Methods to Detect Opinionated Blogs.
  
• Jay Urbain, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder:
  IIT TREC 2007 Genomics Track: Using Concept-Based Semantics in Context for Genomics Literature Passage Retrieval.
  
• Ashish Kumar Saxena, Ganesh Viswanath Sambhu, Saroj Kaushik, L. Venkata Subramaniam:
  IITD-IBMIRL System for Question Answering Using Pattern Matching, Semantic Type and Semantic Category Recognition.
  
• Kazuhiro Seki, Yoshihiro Kino, Shohei Sato, Kuniaki Uehara:
  TREC 2007 Blog Track Experiments at Kobe University.
  
• Raymond Wan, Vo Ngoc Anh, Hiroshi Mamitsuka:
  Passage Retrieval with Vector Space and Query-Level Aspect Models.
  
• Andrew Hickl, Kirk Roberts, Bryan Rink, Jeremy Bensley, Tobias Jungen, Ying Shi, John Williams:
  Question Answering with LCC's CHAUCER-2 at TREC 2007.
  
• Heting Chu, Irene Crisci, Estella Cisco-Dalrymple, Tricia Daley, Lori Hoeffner, Trudy Katz, Susan Shebar, Carol Sullivan, Sarah Swammy, Maureen Weicher, Galia Yemini-Halevi:
  TREC 2007 Legal Track Interactive Task: A Report from the LIU Team.
  
• Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Moldovan Bowden:
  Lymba's PowerAnswer 4 in TREC 2007.
  
• Chen Zhang, Matthew Gerber, Tyler Baldwin, Steve Emelander, Joyce Yue Chai, Rong Jin:
  Michigan State University at the 2007 TREC ciQA Task.
  
• Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Gregory Marton, Federico Mora, Yuan Kui Shen, Gabriel Zaccak, Ammar Ammar, Eric Eisner, Asli Turgut, L. Brown Westrick:
  CSAIL at TREC 2007 Question Answering.
  
• Mamoru Kato, Joseph Langeway, Yimin Wu, William S. Yerazunis:
  Three Non-Bayesian Methods of Spam Filtration: CRM114 at TREC 2007.
  
• Dina Demner-Fushman, Susanne M. Humphrey, Nicholas C. Ide, Russell F. Loane, James G. Mork, Patrick Ruch, Miguel E. Ruiz, Lawrence H. Smith, W. John Wilbur, Alan R. Aronson:
  Combining Resources to Find Answers to Biomedical Questions.
  
• Yuki Arai, Koji Eguchi:
  Opinion Retrieval Experiments Using Generative Models: Experiments for the TREC 2007 Blog Track.
  
• Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu, Olena Zubaryeva:
  The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch at TREC 2007.
  
• Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  NTU at TREC 2007 Blog Track.
  
• Stephen Tomlinson:
  Experiments with the Negotiated Boolean Queries of the TREC 2007 Legal Discovery Track.
  
• Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Stefan M. Rüger:
  The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track.
  
• Aaron M. Cohen, Jianji Yang, Seeger Fisher, Brian Roark, William R. Hersh:
  The OHSU Biomedical Question Answering System Framework.
  
• Kui-Lam Kwok, Norbert Dinstl:
  Testing an Entity Ranking Function for English Factoid QA.
  
• Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer, Yohannes Tsegay, Ross Wilkinson:
  TREC 2007 ciQA Track at RMIT and CSIRO.
  
• Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Milad Shokouhi, Simon J. Puglisi, Halil Ali:
  RMIT University at the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track.
  
• Rahman Mukras, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Lothian:
  The Robert Gordon University at the Opinion Retrieval Task of the 2007 TREC Blog Track.
  
• Dan Shen, Michael Wiegand, Andreas Merkel, Stefan Kazalski, Sabine Hunsicker, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klakow:
  The Alyssa System at TREC QA 2007: Do We Need Blog06?
  
• Chris Buckley:
  Examining Overfitting in Relevance Feedback: Sabir Research at TREC 2007.
  
• Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou, Zhen Lu, Ou Jin, Shenghua Bao, Yunbo Cao, Yong Yu:
  Research on Enterprise Track of TREC 2007 at SJTU APEX Lab.
  
• Wai-Lung Lee, Andreas Lommatzsch, Christian Scheel:
  Feed Distillation Using AdaBoost and Topic Maps.
  
• Edward W. D. Whittaker, Matthias H. Heie, Josef R. Novak, Sadaoki Furui:
  TREC 2007 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  
• Yupeng Fu, Yufei Xue, Tong Zhu, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma:
  THUIR at TREC 2007: Enterprise Track.
  
• David Sculley, Gabriel Wachman:
  Relaxed Online SVMs in the TREC Spam Filtering Track.
  
• Christopher T. Fallen, Gregory B. Newby:
  Collection Selection Based on Historical Performance for Efficient Processing.
  
• Min Wu, Chen Song, Yu Zhan, Tomek Strzalkowski:
  UAlbany's ILQUA at TREC 2007.
  
• María Pardiño, Rafael M. Terol, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Fernando Llopis, Elisa Noguera:
  Using IR-n for Information Retrieval of Genomics Track.
  
• GuangXu Zhou, Hemant Joshi, Coskun Bayrak:
  Topic Categorization for Relevancy and Opinion Detection.
  
• Hemant Joshi, Sithu D. Sudarsan, Subhashish Duttachowdhury, Chuanlei Zhang, Srini Ramaswamy:
  UALR at TREC-ENT 2007.
  
• Krisztian Balog, Katja Hofmann, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke:
  Query and Document Models for Enterprise Search.
  
• Edgar Meij, Sophia Katrenko:
  Bootstrapping Language Associated with Biomedical Entities.
  
• Avi T. Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Martijn Kooken, Nir Nussbaum:
  Access to Legal Documents: Exact Match, Best Match, and Combinations.
  
• Djoerd Hiemstra, Rongmei Li, Jaap Kamps, Rianne Kaptein:
  Parsimonious Language Models for a Terabyte of Text.
  
• Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Joris van Rantwijk, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang:
  The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2007 QA Track.
  
• Breyten Ernsting, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke:
  Language Modeling Approaches to Blog Postand Feed Finding.
  
• David Hannah, Craig Macdonald, Jie Peng, Ben He, Iadh Ounis:
  University of Glasgow at TREC 2007: Experiments in Blog and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier.
  
• Julien Gobeill, Imad Tbahriti, Frédéric Ehrler, Patrick Ruch:
  Vocabulary-Driven Passage Retrieval for Question-Answering in Genomics.
  
• Wei Zhou, Clement T. Yu:
  TREC Genomics Track at UIC.
  
• Wei Zhang, Clement T. Yu:
  UIC at TREC 2007 Blog Track.
  
• Yue Lu, Jing Jiang, Xu Ling, Xin He, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Language Models for Genomics Information Retrieval: UIUC at TREC 2007 Genomics Track.
  
• Brian Almquist, Viet Ha-Thuc, Aditya Kumar Sehgal, Robert J. Arens, Padmini Srinivasan:
  Exploring the Legal Discovery and Enterprise Tracks at the University of Iowa.
  
• Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty:
  University of Lethbridge's Participation in TREC 2007 QA Track.
  
• Nitin Madnani, Jimmy J. Lin, Bonnie J. Dorr:
  TREC 2007 ciQA Task: University of Maryland.
  
• Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Blagovest Dachev:
  UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers.
  
• Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft:
  UMass at TREC 2007 Blog Distillation Task.
  
• Howard R. Turtle, Donald Metzler:
  CIIR Experiments for TREC Legal 2007.
  
• Xing Yi, James Allan:
  Indri at TREC 2007: Million Query (1MQ) Track.
  
• Nicola Stokes, Yi Li, Lawrence Cavedon, Eric Huang, Jiawen Rong, Justin Zobel:
  Entity-Based Relevance Feedback for Genomic List Answer Retrieval.
  
• Feng C. Zhao, Yugyung Lee, Deep Medhi:
  Evaluation of Query Formulations in the Negotiated Query Refinement Process of Legal e-Discovery: UMKC at TREC 2007 Legal Track.
  
• Diane Kelly, Xin Fu, Vanessa Murdock:
  Using Interactions to Improve Translation Dictionaries: UNC, Yahoo! and ciQA.
  
• Claire Fautsch, Jacques Savoy:
  IR-Specific Searches at TREC 2007: Genomics & Blog Experiments.
  
• Miguel E. Ruiz, Ying Sun, Jianqiang Wang, Hongfang Liu:
  Exploring Traits of Adjectives to Predict Polarity Opinion in Blogs and Semantic Filters in Genomics.
  
• Johan Bos, Edoardo Guzzetti, James R. Curran:
  The Pronto QA System at TREC 2007: Harvesting Hyponyms, Using Nominalisation Patterns, and Computing Answer Cardinality.
  
• Scott Kulp, April Kontostathis:
  On Retrieving Legal Files: Shortening Documents and Weeding Out Garbage.
  
• Leif Azzopardi, Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven:
  Persuasive, Authorative and Topical Answers for Complex Question Answering.
  
• Miles Efron, Don Turnbull, Carlos Ovalle:
  University of Texas School of Information at TREC 2007.
  
• Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  University of Twente at the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track: Modeling Relevance Propagation for the Expert Search Task.
  
• Martijn J. Schuemie, Dolf Trieschnigg, Wessel Kraaij:
  Cross Language Information Retrieval for Biomedical Literature.
  
• Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, Mary A. Hotchkiss:
  University of Washington (UW) at Legal TREC Interactive 2007.
  
• Gordon V. Cormack:
  University of Waterloo Participation in the TREC 2007 Spam Track.
  
• Ian MacKinnon, Olga Vechtomova:
  Complex Interactive Question Answering Enhanced with Wikipedia.
  
• Olga Vechtomova:
  Using Subjective Adjectives in Opinion Retrieval from Blogs.
  
• Maheedhar Kolla, Olga Vechtomova:
  Enterprise Search: Identifying Relevant Sentences and Using Them for Query Expansion.
  
• Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam, David R. Cheriton:
  MultiText Legal Experiments at TREC 2007.
  
• Jiepu Jiang, Wei Lu, Dan Liu:
  CSIR at TREC 2007 Expert Search Task.
  
• Haozhen Zhao, Zhicheng Luo, Wei Lu:
  WHU at Blog Track 2007.
  
• Yu Fan, Xiangji Huang:
  York University at TREC 2007: Enterprise Document Search.
  
• Xiangji Huang, Damon Sotoudeh-Hosseinii, Hashmat Rohian, Xiangdong An:
  York University at TREC 2007: Genomics Track.