INDEX OF TREC 2002 PAPERS BY TASK/TRACK

Cross-language

The TREC 2002 Arabic/English CLIR Track	
D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park
F.C. Gey, University of California, Berkeley

TREC 2002 Cross-lingual Retrieval at BBN	
 A. Fraser, University of South California
J. Xu, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies

Experiments in Named Page Finding and Arabic Retrieval with Hummingbird
SearchServerTM at TREC 2002	 
S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird

Arabic Information Retrieval at IBM	 
M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 

Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions	 
S.S. Pradhan, V. Krugler, S. Bethard, W. Ward, D. Jurafsky, J.H. Martin, University of Colorado
S.J. Blair-Goldensohn, A. H. Schlaikjer, E. Filatova, P.A. Duboue, H. Yu, R.J. Passonneau, V. Hatzivassiloglou, K.R. McKeown, Columbia University
G. Illouz, currently at LIMSI-CNRS

CLIR Experiments at Maryland for TREC 2002: Evidence Combination for
Arabic-English Retrieval	
K. Darwish, D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park 

UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks	
L.S. Larkey, J. Allan, M.E. Connell, A. Bolivar, C. Wade, University of Massachusetts

Progress in General-Purpose IR Software	 
G.B. Newby, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Report on the TREC 11 Experiment: Arabic, Named Page and Topic Distillation Searches	 
J. Savoy, Y. Rasolofo, Universit de Neuchtel 

Filtering

***TREC 2002 Filtering Overview	

TREC 11 Experiments at CAS-ICT: Filtering and Web	
H. Xu, Z. Yang, B. Wang, B. Liu, J. Cheng, Y. Liu, Z. Yang, X. Cheng,
S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
CLARIT Experiments in Batch Filtering: Term Selection and Threshold
Optimization in IR and SVM Filters	
D.A. Evans, J. Shanahan, N. Roma, J. Bennett, V. Sheftel, E. Stoica, J. Montgomery, D.A. Hull, 
W. Tembe, Clairvoyance Corporation 

CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in Filtering	
C. Brouard, Laboratoire CLIPS 

IRIT at TREC 2002: Filtering Track	
M. Boughanem, H. Tebri, M. Tmar,
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT-SIG) 

JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic Retrieval	
P. McNamee, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University 

Kernel Methods for Document Filtering	
Kermit Group:
N. Cancedda, C. Goutte, J.-M. Renders, Xerox Research
N. Cesa-Bianchi, A. Conconi, Universit degli Studi de Milano
Y. Li, J. Shawe-Taylor, A. Vinokourov, T. Graepel, University of London
C. Gentile, Universit dell'Insubria

Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering Track	
S.E. Robertson, S. Walker, H. Zaragoza, R. Herbrich, Microsoft Research Ltd.

TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS	
K.L. Kwok, P. Deng, N. Dinstl, M. Chan, Queens College, CUNY 

UB at TREC 11: Batch and Adaptive Filtering	
M. Srikanth, X. Wu, R. Srihari, State University of New York at Buffalo

Rutgers Filtering Work at TREC 2002: Adaptive and Batch	
A.Anghelescu, E. Boros, D. Lewis, V. Menkov, D. Neu, P. Kantor, Rutgers University

Example Based Text Matching Methodology for Routing Tasks	
A. Visa, J. Toivonen, T. Vesanen, J. Mkinen, Tampere University of Technology
B. Brack, bo Akademi University
H. Vanharanta, Pori School of Technology and Economics

Incremental Learning for Profile Training in Adaptive Document Filtering	
L. Ma, Q. Chen, S. Ma, M. Zhang, L. Cai, Tsinghua University

Incremental Retrieval of Documents Relevant to a Topic	
C. Lyon, B. Dickerson, J. Malcolm, University of Hertfordshire

Classifiers Stacking and Voting for Text Filtering 	
R. Mihalcea, University of North Texas 

Interactive

TREC 2002 Interactive Track Report	
W. Hersh, Oregon Health and Science University

TREC 11 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO	 
N. Craswell, D. Hawking, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, CSIRO
J. Thom, RMIT University
T. Upstill, Australian National University

FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks	 
L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University 

TREC 11 Experiments at NII: The Effects of Virtual Relevant Documents in Batch Filtering	
K.-S. Lee, K. Kageura, A. Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics (NII)

More Statistical Power Needed: The OHSU TREC 2002 Interactive Track Experiments	
Oregon Health & Science University

Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 2002	
N.J. Belkin, D. Kelly, G. Kim, J.-Y. Kim, H.-J. Lee, G. Muresan,
M.-C. Tang, X.-J. Yuan, Rutgers University
C. Cool, Queens College, CUNY

Using Hierarchical Clustering and Summarisation Approaches
for Web Retrieval: Glasgow at the TREC 2002 Interactive Track	
R. Osdin, I. Ounis, R.W. White, University of Glasgow

Novelty

***TREC 2002 Novelty Overview	

Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding	
K. Collins-Thompson, P. Ogilvie, Y Zhang, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University

Experiments in Novelty Detection at Columbia University	
B. Schiffman, Columbia University 

Novelty Track at IRIT-SIG	
T. Dkaki, J. Mothe, J. Aug, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
T. Dkaki, IUT URS
J. Mothe, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Matres Midi-Pyrnes 

A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System Description	
H. Kazawa, T. Hirao, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratories 

Some Similarity Computation Methods in Novelty Detection	
M.-F. Tsai, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University 
TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS	
K.L. Kwok, P. Deng, N. Dinstl, M. Chan, Queens College, CUNY 

A Crude Cut at Query Expansion	
P. Rennert, StreamSage, Inc.

THU TREC 2002: Novelty Track Experiments	
M. Zhang, R. Song, C. Lin, S. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Jin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, Tsinghua University

The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002	
C. Monz, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam 

UIC at TREC 2002: Web Track (Draft)	 
S. Liu, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
W. Wu, University of Illinois at Urban and Champion

Novel Results and Some Answers
The University of Iowa TREC 11 Results	 
D. Eichmann, P. Srinivasan, University of Iowa 

UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks	
L.S. Larkey, J. Allan, M.E. Connell, A. Bolivar, C. Wade, University of Massachusetts

The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks	
H. Qi, J. Otterbacher, A. Winkel, D.R. Radev, University of Michigan 

Question Answering

Overview of the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track	
E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology

TREC 2002 QA at BBN: Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation	
 J. Xu, A. Licuanan, J. May, S. Miller, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies

The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2002	
E. Nyberg, T. Mitamura, J. Carbonnell, J. Callan, K. Collins-Thompson, K. Czuba,
M. Duggan, L. Hiyakumoto, N. Hu, Y. Huang, J. Ko, L.V. Lita, S. Murtagh, V. Pedro, 
D. Svoboda, Carnegie Mellon University 

ICT Experiments in TREC 11 QA Main Task	
H. Xu, H. Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Question Answering Using XML-Tagged Documents	
K.C. Litkowski, CL Research 

FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks	 
L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University  
IBM's Statistical Question Answering System-TREC 11	 
A. Ittycheriah, S. Roukos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

A Multi-Strategy and Multi-Source Approach to Question Answering	
J. Chu-Carroll, J. Prager, C. Welty, K. Czuba, D. Ferrucci,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 

Use of Patterns for Detection of Likely Answer Strings: A Systematic Approach	 
M.M. Soubbotin, S.M. Soubbotin, InsightSoft-M

Mining Knowledge from Repeated Co-Occurrences: DIOGENE at TREC 2002	
B. Magnini, M. Negri, R. Prevete, H. Tanev, ITC-Irst

LCC Tools for Question Answering	
D. Moldovan, S. Harabagiu, R. Girju, P. Morarescu, F. Lacatusu,
A. Novischi, A. Badulescu, O. Bolohan, Language Computer Corporation 

Coupling Named Entity Recognition, Vector-Space Model and Knowledge Bases for
TREC 11 Question Answering Track	
P. Bellot, E. Crestan, M. El-Bze, L. Gillard,
Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon
E. Crestan, C. de Loupy, Sinequa S.A.S.

The Question Answering System QALC at LIMSI, Experiments in Using Web and WordNet	
G. de Chalendar, T. Dalmas, F. Elkateb-Gara, O. Ferret, B. Grau,
M. Hurault-Plantet, G. Illouz, L. Monceaux, I. Robba, A. Vilnat, LIMSI-CNRS

MITRE's Qanda at TREC-11	 
J.D. Burger, L. Ferro, W. Greiff, J. Henderson, S. Mardis, A. Morgan, The MITRE Corporation
M. Light, The University of Iowa 

A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System Description	
H. Kazawa, T. Hirao, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratories 

The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question Answering	
H. Yang, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore 

Web Based Pattern Mining and Matching Approach to Question Answering	
D. Zhang, W.S. Lee, Singapore-MIT Alliance

Question Answering Approach Using a WordNet-based Answer Type Taxonomy	
S.-H. Na, I.-S. Kang, S.-Y. Lee, J.-H. Lee, POSTECH and
Advanced Information Technology Research Center (AITrc)
Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track	
A.R. Diekema, J. Chen, N. McCracken, N.E. Ozgencil, M.D. Taffet, O. Yilmazel, E.D. Liddy, Syracuse University 

University of Alicante Experiments at TREC 2002	
J. Vicedo, F. Llopis, A. Ferrndez, Universidad de Alicante 
The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002	
C. Monz, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam 

Building an Arabic Stemmer for Information Retrieval	
A. Chen, F. Gey, University of California at Berkeley 

Question-Answering via Enhanced Understanding of Questions	
D. Roth, C. Cumby, X. Li, P. Morie, R. Nagarajan, N. Rizzolo, K. Small,
W.-T. Yih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2002	
R.F.E. Sutcliffe, University of Limerick

The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks	
H. Qi, J. Otterbacher, A. Winkel, D.R. Radev, University of Michigan 

The QUANTUM Question Answering System at TREC 11	
L. Plamondon, G. Lapalme, Universit de Montral
L. Kosseim, Concordia University

PiQASso 2002	
G. Attardi, A. Cisternino, F. Formica, M. Simi, A. Tommasi, University of Pisa 

The University of Sheffield TREC 2002 Q&A System	
M. Greenwood, I. Roberts, R. Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield 

Natural Language Based Reformulation Resource and Wide Exploitation
for Question Answering	
U. Hermjakob, A. Echihabi, D. Marcu, University of Southern California

Statistical Selection of Exact Answers (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2002)	
C.L.A. Clarke, G.V. Cormack, G. Kemkes, M. Laszlo, T.R. Lynam,
E.L. Terra, P.L. Tilker, University of Waterloo

The York QA Prototype Question Answering System	 
M. De Boni, J.-L. Jara-Valencia, S. Manandhar, University of York 

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Video

The TREC-2002 Video Track Report 	
A.F. Smeaton, Dublin City University
P. Over, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Video Classification and Retrieval with the Informedia Digital Video Library System	
A. Hauptmann, R. Yan, Y. Qi, R. Jin, M. Christel, M. Derthick, M.-Y. Chen, 
R. Baron, W.-H. Lin, T.D. Ng, Carnegie Mellon University 

CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in Video Retrieval	 
D. Moraru, L. Besacier, P. Mulhern, G.M. Qunot, CLIPS-IMAG 

CWI at the TREC 2002 Video Track	
T. Westerveld, A. de Vries, A. van Ballegooij, CWI 

Dublin City University Video Track Experiments for TREC 2002	
P. Browne, C. Czirjek, C. Gurrin, R. Jarina, H. Lee, S. Marlow, K. McDonald,
N. Murphy, N.E. O'Connor, A.F. Smeaton, J. Ye, Dublin City University 

Semantic Feature Extraction using Mpeg Macro-block Classification	
F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo, B. Huet, Institut Eurcom

FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks	 
L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University  

IBM Research TREC 2002 Video Retrieval System	
B. Adams, G. Iyengar, C. Neti, H.J. Nock, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
A. Amir, H.H. Permuter, S. Srinivasan, IBM Alamaden Research Center
C. Dorai, A. Jaimes, C. Lang, C.-Y. Lin, A. Natsev, M. Naphade,
J.R. Smith, B.L. Tseng, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
S. Ghosal, R. Singh, Ashwin T.V., IBM India Research Lab
D. Zhang, Columbia University

Video Searching and Browsing Using Viewfinder	
D.E. Albertson, J. Mostafa, J. Fieber, Indiana University 

Video Retrieval Using Global Features in Keyframes	
M.J. Pickering, D. Heesch, S. Rger, Imperial College London
R. O'Callaghan, D. Bull, University of Bristol

TREC 2002 Video Track Experiments at MediaTeam Oulu and VTT	
M. Rautiainen, D. Vorobiev, K. Noponen, P. Vyrynen, M. Hosio, E. Matimmikko, T. Ojala, T. Seppnen, Media Team Oulu
J. Penttila, S.-M. Mkel, J. Peltola, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland 

TREC Feature Extraction by Active Learning	
J. Vendrig, I. Patras, C. Snoek, M. Worring, Mediamill/ISIS University of Amsterdam
J. den Hartog, S. Raaijmakers, J. van Rest, Mediamill TNO-TPD
D. van Leeuwen, TNO-Human Factors

Temporal Multi-Resolution Framework for Shot Boundary Detection
and Keyframe Extraction	
Chandrashekhara A., H.-M. Feng, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore 

Shot Boundary Detection Using the Moving Query Window	
S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, H.E. Williams, RMIT University

Automatic Shot Boundary Detection and Classification of Indoor and Outdoor Scenes	
A.Miene, T. Hermes, G. Ioannidis, R. Fathi, O. Herzok, University of Bremen 

Video Indexing and Retrieval at UMD	 
C. Wolf, INSA de Lyon
D. Doermann, University of Maryland
M. Rautiainen, University of Oulu

Web

***TREC 2002 Web Overview	

Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding	
K. Collins-Thompson, P. Ogilvie, Y Zhang, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University

TREC 11 Experiments at CAS-ICT: Filtering and Web	
H. Xu, Z. Yang, B. Wang, B. Liu, J. Cheng, Y. Liu, Z. Yang, X. Cheng,
S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Pliers at Trec 2002	
A. MacFarlane, City University, London 

TREC 11 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO	 
N. Craswell, D. Hawking, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, CSIRO
J. Thom, RMIT University
T. Upstill, Australian National University

FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks	 
L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University  

Experiments in Named Page Finding and Arabic Retrieval with Hummingbird
SearchServerTM at TREC 2002	 
S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird

Topic Distillation with Knowledge Agents	 
E. Amitay, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, R. Lempel, A. Soffer, IBM Research Labs Haifa
R. Lempel, Technion

IIT at TREC-11 Linear Combinations Based on Document Structure and
Varied Stemming for Arabic Retrieval	
A. Chowdhury, M. Aljlayl, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, D. Grossman, O. Frieder
Illinois Institute of Technology

IRIT at TREC 2002: Web Track	
A.Benammar, M. Boughanem, G. Hubert, C. Laffaire, J. Mothe, IRIT-SIG 

Finding Named Pages via Frequent Anchor Descriptions	
J. Malawong, A. Rungsawang, Kasetsart University 

LIT at TREC 2002: Web Track	
N. Yu, J. Donghong, Y. Lingpeng, Laboratories for Information Technology (LIT) 

Extracting Answers from the Web Using Data Annotation and Data Mining Techniques	
J. Lin, A. Fernandes, B. Katz, G. Marton, S. Tellex, MIT 

TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS	
K.L. Kwok, P. Deng, N. Dinstl, M. Chan, Queens College, CUNY 

THU TREC 2002: Web Track Experiments	
M. Zhang, R. Song, C. Lin, S. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Jin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, Tsinghua University

The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002	
C. Monz, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam 

University of Glasgow at the Web Track of TREC 2002	
V. Plachouras, I. Ounis, G. Amati, C.J. Van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow
G. Amati also affiliated to Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rom

CARROTT 11 and the TREC 11 Web Track	
R.S. Cost, S. Kallurkar, H. Majithia, C. Nicholas, Y. Shi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 

Homepage Finding and Topic Distillation Using a Common Retrieval Strategy
V. Ngoc Anh, A. Moffat, University of Melbourne

Progress in General-Purpose IR Software	 
G.B. Newby, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Report on the TREC 11 Experiment: Arabic, Named Page and Topic Distillation Searches	 
J. Savoy, Y. Rasolofo, Universit de Neuchtel 

TREC 2002 Web Track "Automated Word Sense Disambiguation for
Internet Information Retrieval"	
C.M. Stokoe, J. Tait, University of Sunderland 

Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries	
E.G. Toms, L. Freund, C. Li, University of Toronto 

Web Document Retrieval Using Sentence-Query Similarity	
E.-K. Park, S.-I. Moon, D.-Y. Ra, Yonsei University
M.-G. Jang, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

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