Océ at TREC 2003

Océ at CLEF 2003

This report describes the work done at Océ Research for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2003. This year we participated in seven mono-lingual tasks (all languages except Russian). We used the BM25 model, a probabilistic and (for Dutch only) a statistical model to rank documents. Knowledge Concepts’ Content Enabler semantic network was used (for statistical model only) for stemming, a...

Using Mt in a Corporate Setting

Company introduction Océ Technologies is a manufacturer of plotters, printers, design & engineering equipment and supplies. Océ has operating companies in 30 countries and is active in 80 countries. About 17,000 people are employed worldwide; 3000 are based at the head office in Venlo, The Netherlands. Implementation of MT After prototyping an MT system at Océ R&D to demonstrate its feasibility...

The University of Michigan at TREC 2003

Overview of TREC 2003

The twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2003, was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) November 18–21, 2003. The conference was co-sponsored by NIST, the US Department of Defense Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). TREC 2003 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster researc...

Combining First and Second Order Features in the TREC 2003 Robust Track

This year at TREC 2003 we participated in the robust track and investigated the use of very simple retrieval rules based on convex combinations of similarity measures based on first and second order features.