Overview of the TREC 2016

PolyU at TREC 2016 Real-Time Summarization

This paper presents the participation of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) to the TREC 2016 Real-Time Summarization track. The two tasks related to Scenario A and Scenario B both focuses on information real-time processing. During the evaluation period, the system monitors the Twitter sample stream with respect to a number of “interest profiles”. We submitted three runs for both scen...

Overview of the TREC-2015 Microblog Track

Augmenting Medical Queries with UMLS Concepts via MetaMap

This report is an overview of the methods used by the Democritus University of Thrace team (DUTH) at the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Track of the 25th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). We investigated the concept of atoms from the United Medical Language System (UMLS) as a method to augment medical queries. We ultimately found that massively augmenting queries with too many words leads to a...

Overview of the TREC 2016 Contextual Suggestion Track

The TREC Contextual Suggestion Track offers a personalized point of interest (POI) recommendation task, in which participants develop systems to give a ranked list of suggestions related to a profile and a context pair available in the tasks’ requests provided by the track organizers. Previously, reusability of the contextual suggestion track suffered from using dynamic collections and a shallo...

Overview of the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference TREC

The fth Text REtrieval Conference TREC was held at the National Institute of Standards and Tech nology NIST on November The con ference was co sponsored by NIST and the Informa tion Technology O ce of the Defense Advanced Re search Projects Agency DARPA as part of the TIP STER Text Program TREC is the latest in a series of workshops de signed to foster research in text retrieval For anal yses o...