The robust retrieval track is a new track in TREC 2003. The goal of the track is to improve the
consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. In addition, the …

The TREC Genomics Track implemented a new task in 2006 that focused on passage
retrieval for question answering using full-text documents from the biomedical literature. A …

The HARD track of TREC 2004 aims to improve the accuracy of information retrieval through
the use of three techniques:(1) query metadata that better describes the information need,(2) …

The robust retrieval track explores methods for improving the consistency of retrieval
technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. The retrieval task in the track is a …

Abstract Web Information Discovery Integrated Tool (WIDIT) Laboratory at the Indiana
University School of Library and Information Science participated in the Blog track's opinion …

Abstract In TREC-2007, Indiana University‟ s WIDIT Lab1 participated in the Blog track‟ s
opinion task and the polarity subtask. For the opinion task, whose goal is to" uncover the …

Abstract Learning To Rank (LTR) techniques aim to learn an effective document ranking
function by combining several document features. While the function learned may be …

In this paper, we describe a fusion approach to finding opinion about a given target in blog
postings. We tackled the opinion blog retrieval task by breaking it down to two sequential …

Searchers on the Web often aim to find key resources about a topic. Finding such results is
called topic distillation. Previous research has shown that the use of sources of evidence …

The participation of the REINA Research Group in WebCLEF 2005 focused in the
monolingual mixed task. Queries or topics are of two types: named and home pages. For …