The TREC - 8 Filtering Track Final

The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report - Figures

The TREC-8 Filtering Track Final Report

The TREC-8 ltering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user pro les which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents. It consists of three major subtasks: adaptive ltering, batch ltering, and routing. In adaptive ltering, the system begins with only a topic statement and must learn a better pro le from on-line feedback. Batch ltering and routing are more tra...

Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-9: Filtering Track

Apart from a short description of our Query Track contribution, this report is concerned with the Adaptive Filtering track only. There is a separate report in this volume [1] on the Microsoft Research Cambridge participation in QA track. A number of runs were submitted for the Adaptive Filtering track, on all tasks (adaptive filtering, batch filtering and routing; three separate query sets; two...

The TREC–9 Filtering Track Final Report

The TREC–9 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents. It consists of three major subtasks: adaptive filtering, batch filtering, and routing. In adaptive filtering, the system begins with only a topic statement and a small number of positive examples, and must learn a better profile from on-li...

Overview of the TREC 2004 Novelty Track

TREC 2004 marks the third and final year for the novelty track. The task is as follows: Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find the relevant and novel sentences that should be returned to the user from this set. This task integrates aspects of passage retrieval and information filtering. As in 2003, there were two categories of topics – events and opinions – and f...