Finding Agricultural Information at Rutgers Libraries

Rutgers Information Interaction Lab at TREC 2005: Trying HARD

Within the structure of the TREC 2005 HARD track guidelines, we investigated the following hypotheses: H1: Query expansion using a “clarity”-based approach will increase effectiveness over baseline queries and baseline queries plus pseudo-relevance feedback; H2: Query expansion based on the Web will increase effectiveness over baseline queries and baseline queries plus pseudo-relevance feedback...

Information commons: future of academic libraries

Background and Aim: This paper seeks to explore the concepts of the information commons (IC). The paper provides a look at the models and characteristics of the IC. A number of projects of the IC are presented. We will discuss the situation of an existing traditional library. It makes recommendations for converting an existing library space into an IC. A number of Challenges of implementation o...

Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 2002

Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC-5

The Interactive Track investigation at Rutgers concentrated primarily on three factors: the searchers’ uses and understandings of relevance feedback and ranked output, and the utility of relevance feedback for the interactive track task; the searchers’ understandings of the interactive track task; and performance differences based on topic characteristics and searcher and order effects. Our off...

Rutgers' HARD Track Experiences at TREC 2004

1 Introduction The goal of our work in the HARD track was to test techniques for using knowledge about various aspects of the information seeker's context to improve IR system performance. We were particularly concerned with such knowledge which could be gained through implicit sources of evidence, rather than explicit questioning of the information seeker. We therefore did not submit any clari...