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Michigan State University at the 2007 TREC ciQA Task

This is our first participation in the ciQA task. Instead of exploring conversation strategies in question answering [3, 4], we decided to focus on simple interaction strategies using relevance feedback. In our view, the ciQA task is not designed to evaluate user initiative interaction strategies. Since NIST assessors act as users, the motivation to take an initiative is lacking. It is not clea...

The University of Michigan at DUC 2004

We present the results of Michigan’s participation in DUC 2004. Our system, MEAD, ranked as one of the top systems in four of the five tasks. We introduce our new feature, LexPageRank, a new measure of sentence centrality inspired by the prestige concept in social networks. LexPageRank gave promising results in multi-document summarization. Our approach for Task 5, biographical summarization, w...

The University of Michigan at TREC 2003

1995-1996 Research Progress-Michigan State University

Trichloroethylene (TCE), a suspected cancer causing agent and a USEPA priority pollutant, is the most commonly reported volatile organic contaminant of groundwater at hazardous waste sites. The degradation of TCE and other solvents such as benzene and toluene by bacteria commonly found in groundwater environments has been extensively studied, yet the relationship between the rate of degradation...