TLC at APSA Track Summaries

Learning from Medical Summaries: The University of Michigan at TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track

The goal of TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track was to retrieve biomedical articles relevant for answering three kinds of generic clinical questions, namely diagnosis, test, and treatment. In order to achieve this purpose, we investigated three approaches to improve the retrieval of relevant articles: modifying queries, improving indexes, and ranking with ensembles. Our final submissions ...

APSA-CP Winter 1997

When becoming President of the Section in Comparative Politics, I sought counsel from those who had organized it. Comparative Politics was rapidly changing, they emphasized, and the Section should actively explore new departures and emerging perspectives. While striving to be inclusive, its leadership should be proactive. Before departing, I wish to express my thanks to those who have provided ...

ICTNET at Web Track 2009 Diversity Track

We (ICTNET team) participated in Web Track of TREC2009, and in this paper, we summarize our work on Diversity task of Web Track, which is new in this year. The goal of the diversity task is to return a ranked list of pages that together provide complete coverage for a query, while avoiding excessive redundancy in the result list. For this task, we cluster the results of ad hoc task, and rerank ...

ICTNET at Web Track 2011 Diversity Track

Summaries of Presentations at Ccpn Conference

Even though there were actually a number of established scientists in attendance, the meeting seemed to be geared toward graduate students and postdocs. Many of the presentations focused on giving advice about and descriptions of the process of structural determination. There was little actual discussion of either algorithms or biology, but many of the opinions were quite thought provoking and ...