TREC: Improving information access through evaluation

TREC: Experiment and evaluation in information retrieval

ad hoc retrieval, filtering, question answering) that encapsulate different research agendas in the community. The end result of each track meeting is an overview report written by the track organizers and a collection of technical reports by the track participants. Many of these reports, after some refinement, find their way into leading IR-related conferences such as SIGIR, and every few year...

The TREC-2001 Arabic Information Retrieval Evaluation

The 2001 Text Retrieval Conference will include a large-scale evaluation of systems designed to retrieve Arabic documents using English, French or Arabic queries.

Improving lives through information.

Safety & Health Information Improving Online Access & Delivery

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Improving Translation through Contextual Information

This paper proposes a two-layered model of dialogue structure for task-oriented dialogues that processes contextual information and disambiguates speech acts. The final goal is to improve translation quality in a speech-to-speech translation system. 1 A m b i g u i t y in S p e e c h T r a n s l a t i o n For any given utterance out of what we can loosely call context, there is usually more tha...