PLIERS

PLIERS at TREC8 - Appendix

Pliers at Trec

We report on our experiments for the TREC 2002 web track for both the topic distillation and named page tasks. We use a very simple method for both tasks which takes the first hit page in the top 10 for a give web site and discards any further pages from that web site (section 2 describes our research aims and objectives in more detail). We also describe indexing results (section 3), give a des...

PLIERS at TREC8

The use of the PLIERS text retrieval system in TREC8 experiments is described. The tracks entered for are: Ad-Hoc, Filtering (Batch and Routing) and the Web Track (Large only). We describe both retrieval efficiency and effectiveness results for all these tracks. We also describe some preliminary experiments with BM_25 tuning constant variation.

Pliers at Trec 2002

We report on our experiments for the TREC 2002 web track for both the topic distillation and named page tasks. We use a very simple method for both tasks which takes the first hit page in the top 10 for a give web site and discards any further pages from that web site (section 2 describes our research aims and objectives in more detail). We also describe indexing results (section 3), give a des...

Burns from orthodontic pliers.

A case of burn injury from orthodontic pliers resulting in a partial-thickness burn is presented. A brief description of the injury, a review of the pertinent literature, and general guidelines for out-patient management of such burns are also presented.