12. TREC: Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2003

• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Overview of TREC 2003. 1-13
  
• William R. Hersh, Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju:
  TREC GENOMICS Track Overview. 14-23
  
• James Allan:
  HARD Track Overview in TREC 2003: High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents. 24-37
  
• Ian Soboroff, Donna Harman:
  Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track. 38-53
  
• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track. 54-68
  
• Ellen M. Voorhees:
  Overview of the TREC 2003 Robust Retrieval Track. 69-77
  
• Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu:
  Overview of the TREC 2003 Web Track. 78-92
  
• Richard D. Hull, Larry F. Waldman:
  Recognizing Gene and Protein Function in MEDLINE Abstracts. 93-97
  
• Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Ralph M. Weischedel:
  TREC 2003 QA at BBN: Answering Definitional Questions. 98-106
  
• Rocio Guillén, Tasnim Ferdous:
  REGEN: Retrieval and Extraction of Genomics Data. 107-116
  
• Zeng Wu, Lin Du, Le Sun, Shiwei Ye:
  TREC12 HARD Track at ISCAS. 117-125
  
• Qianli Jin, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu:
  NLPR at TREC 2003: Novelty and Robust. 126-137
  
• Jian Sun, Zhe Yang, Wenfeng Pan, Huaping Zhang, Bin Wang, Xueqi Cheng:
  TREC 2003 Novelty and Web Track at ICT. 138-146
  
• Yi Chang, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai:
  TREC 2003 Question Answering Track at CAS-ICT. 147-151
  
• James G. Shanahan, Jeffrey Bennett, David A. Evans, David A. Hull, Jesse Montgomery:
  Clairvoyance Corporation Experiments in the TREC 2003 High Accuracy Retrieval from Douments (HARD) Track. 152-160
  
• Kenneth C. Litkowski:
  Use of Metadata for Question Answering and Novelty Tasks. 161-176
  
• Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan:
  Combining Structural Information and the Use of Priors in Mixed Named-Page and Homepage Finding. 177-184
  
• Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura, James P. Callan, Jaime G. Carbonell, Robert E. Frederking, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Laurie Hiyakumoto, Yifen Huang, Curtis Huttenhower, Scott Judy, Jeongwoo Ko, Anna Kupsc, Lucian Vlad Lita, Vasco Pedro, David Svoboda, Benjamin Van Durme:
  The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategh Approach with Dynamic Planning.
  
• Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer:
  A Hybrid Approach for QA Track Definitional Questions. 185-192
  
• Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Trystan Upstill, Alistair McLean, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu:
  TREC12 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO. 193-203
  
• Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Ross Wilkinson, Mingfang Wu:
  Task Descriptions: Web Track 2003. 204-214
  
• Stephen Blott, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Thomas Sødring:
  On the Use of MeSH Headings to Improve Retrieval Effectiveness. 215-224
  
• Rob Jelier, Martijn J. Schuemie, C. Christiaan van der Eijk, Marc Weeber, Erik M. van Mulligen, Bob J. A. Schijvenaars, Barend Mons, Jan A. Kors:
  Searching for geneRIFs: Concept-Based Query Expansion and Bayes Classification. 225-233
  
• Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano:
  Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2003: Robust and Web Track. 234-245
  
• Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Yaqian Zhou, Yongping Du, Lan You:
  FDUQA on TREC2003 QA task. 246-253
  
• Stephen Tomlinson:
  Robust, Web and Genomic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServer at TREC 2003. 254-267
  
• Eric W. Brown, Andrew Dolbey, Lawrence Hunter:
  IBM Research and the University of Colorado - TREC 2003 Genomics Track. 268-275
  
• Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Michael Herscovici, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer, Reiner Kraft, Jason Y. Zien:
  Juru at TREC 2003 - Topic Distillation using Query-Sensitive Tuning and Cohesiveness Filtering. 276-282
  
• John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, Christopher A. Welty, Abraham Ittycheriah, Ruchi Mahindru:
  IBM's PIQUANT in TREC2003. 283-292
  
• John M. Conroy, Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary:
  From TREC to DUC to TREC Again. 293-302
  
• Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Kedar Bellare, Chirag Shah, Deepa Paranjpe:
  Generic Text Summarization Using Wordnet for Novelty and Hard. 303-304
  
• Deepa Paranjpe, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sumana Srinivasan:
  Passage Scoring for Question Answering via Bayesian Inference on Lexical Relations. 305-210
  
• Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Rebecca Cathey, Ling Ma, David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury, Greg Pass, Herman Vandermolen:
  IIT at TREC 2003, Task Classification and Document Structrure for Known-Item Search. 311-320
  
• Kazuhiro Seki, Nihar Sheth, Javed Mostafa:
  Identifying Gene Function Descriptions by Probability-based Sentence Selection. 321-327
  
• Kiduk Yang, Dan E. Albertson:
  WIDIT in TREC-2003 Web Track. 328-336
  
• Taoufiq Dkaki, Josiane Mothe:
  Trec Novelty Track At IRIT-SIG. 337-342
  
• Mohand Boughanem, Karen Sauvagnat, Cecile Laffaire:
  Mercure at TREC 2003 Web track - Topic Distillation Task. 343-348
  
• Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri, Hristo Tanev:
  ITC-irst at TREC 2003: the DIOGENE QA System. 349-357
  
• James Mayfield, Paul McNamee:
  Combining Methods for the TREC 2003 Robust Track. 358-362
  
• Paricha Ingongngam, Arnon Rungsawang:
  Report on the TREC 2003 Experiments Using Web Topic-Centric Link Analysis. 363-367
  
• Young-In Song, Kyoung-Soo Han, Hee-Cheol Seo, Sang-Bum Kim, Hae-Chang Rim:
  Biomedical Text Retrieval System at Korea University. 368-374
  
• Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Mitchell Bowden, John Williams, Jeremy Bensley:
  Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning. 375-382
  
• Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Josh Miller:
  A Non-Functional Prototype at TREC 2003. 383-385
  
• Ilya S. Geller:
  The Role and Meaning of Predicative and Non-Predicative Definitions in the Search for Information. 386-391
  
• Diego Mollá Aliod:
  AnswerFinder in TREC 2003. 392-398
  
• Ryosuke Ohgaya, Akiyoshi Shimmura, Tomohiro Takagi, Akiko N. Aizawa:
  Meiji University Web and Novelty Track Experiments at TREC 2003. 399-407
  
• Ji-Rong Wen, Ruihua Song, Deng Cai, Kaihua Zhu, Shipeng Yu, Shaozhi Ye, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Microsoft Research Asia at the Web Track of TREC 2003. 408-417
  
• Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor:
  Microsoft Cambridge at TREC-12: HARD track. 418-425
  
• Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Daniel Loreto, Wesley Hildebrandt, Matthew W. Bilotti, Sue Felshin, Aaron Fernandes, Gregory Marton, Federico Mora:
  Integrating Web-based and Corpus-based Techniques for Question Answering. 426-435
  
• John D. Burger:
  MITRE's Qanda at TREC-12. 436-440
  
• Mehmet Kayaalp, Alan R. Aronson, Susanne M. Humphrey, Nicholas C. Ide, Lorraine K. Tanabe, Lawrence H. Smith, Dina Demner-Fushman, Russell R. Loane, James G. Mork, Olivier Bodenreider:
  Methods for Accurate Retrieval of MEDLINE Citations in Functional Genomics. 441-450
  
• Berry de Bruijn, Joel D. Martin:
  Finiding Gene Function using LitMiner. 451-459
  
• Hirotoshi Taira, Tomonori Izumitani, Tsutomu Hirao, Hideki Isozaki, Hideto Kazawa, Eisaku Maeda:
  Experiments in TREC 2003 Genomics Track at NTT. 460-467
  
• Wen-Juan Hou, Chun-Yuan Teng, Chih Lee, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  SVM Approach to GeneRIF Annotation. 468-473
  
• Ming-Feng Tsai, Ming-Hung Hsu, Hsin-Hsi Chen:
  Approach of Information Retrieval with Reference Corpus to Novelty Detection. 474-479
  
• Hui Yang, Hang Cui, Mstislav Maslennikov, Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua:
  QUALIFIER In TREC-12 QA Main Task. 480-488
  
• Dell Zhang, Wee Sun Lee:
  A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering. 489-495
  
• Pascha Iljin, Roel Brand, Samuel Driessen, Jakob Klok:
  Océ at TREC 2003. 496-502
  
• William R. Hersh, Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju, Susan Price:
  Phrases, Boosting, and Query Expansion Using External Knowledge Resources for Genomic Information Retrieval. 503-509
  
• Laszlo Grunfeld, Kui-Lam Kwok, Norbert Dinstl, Peter Deng:
  TREC 2003 Robust, HARD and QA Track Experiments using PIRCS. 510-521
  
• Aynur A. Dayanik, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Rose Oughtred:
  Partioning a Graph of Sequences, Structures and Abstracts for Information Retrieval. 522-531
  
• Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Yuelin Li, Gheorghe Muresan, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Xiao-Jun Yuan, Xiao-Min Zhang:
  Rutgers' HARD and Web Interactive Track Experiments at TREC 2003. 532-543
  
• Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, David J. Neu:
  Combining First and Second Order Features in the TREC 2003 Robust Track. 544-546
  
• Richard Tong, John Quackenbush, Mark Snuffin:
  Knowledge-Based Access to the Bio-Medical Literature, Ontologically-Grounded Experiments for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track. 547-551
  
• Liang Ma, Wei Tan, Qunxiu Chen, Shaoping Ma, Shuicai Shi, Shibin Xiao, Hongwei Wang, Hongjun Wang:
  THUIR at TREC 2003: HARD Experiments. 552-555
  
• Min Zhang, Chuan Lin, Yiqun Liu, Leo Zhao, Shaoping Ma:
  THUIR at TREC 2003: Novelty, Robust and Web. 556-567
  
• Gregory B. Newby:
  Document Structure with IR Tools. 568-577
  
• Min Wu, Xiaoyu Zheng, Michelle Duan, Ting Liu, Tomek Strzalkowski:
  Questioning Answering By Pattern Matching, Web-Proofing, Semantic Form Proofing. 578-585
  
• Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, Oren Tsur:
  The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track. 586-593
  
• Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson:
  Approaches to Robust and Web Retrieval. 594-599
  
• Terence Clifton, Alex Colquhoun, William John Teahan:
  Bangor at TREC 2003: Q&A and Genomics Tracks. 600-611
  
• Gaurav Bhalotia, Preslav Nakov, Ariel S. Schwartz, Marti A. Hearst:
  BioText Team Report for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track. 612-621
  
• Miles Osborne, Mark Cuminskey, Gail Sinclair, Matthew Smillie, Bonnie L. Webber, Jeffrey T. Chang, Nipun Mehra, Veronica Rotemberg, Russ B. Altman:
  Edinburgh-Stanford TREC-2003 Genomics Track. 622-630
  
• Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, James R. Curran, Stephen Clark, Colin J. Bannard, Bonnie L. Webber, Mark Steedman:
  QED: The Edinburgh TREC-2003 Question Answering System. 631-635
  
• Ben He, Iadh Ounis:
  University of Glasgow at the Robust Track- A Query-based Model Selection Approach for the Poorly-Performing Queries. 636-645
  
• Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen, Fidel Cacheda:
  University of Glasgow at the Web Track: Dynamic Application of Hyperlink Analysis using the Query Scope. 646-652
  
• Shuang Liu, Clement T. Yu:
  UIC at TREC-2003: Robust Track. 653-661
  
• Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Active Feedback - UIUC TREC-2003 HARD Experiments. 662-666
  
• ChengXiang Zhai, Tao Tao, Hui Fang, Zhidi Shang:
  Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics Experiments. 667-672
  
• Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Relevance Propagation for Topic Distillation UIUC TREC 2003 Web Track Experiments. 673-677
  
• David Eichmann, Padmini Srinivasan, Marc Light, Hudong Wang, Xin Ying Qiu, Robert J. Arens, Aditya Kumar Sehgal:
  Experiments in Novelty, Genes and Questions at the University of Iowa. 678-685
  
• Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Igal Gabbay, Michael Mulcahy, Kieran White:
  Question Answering using the DLT System at TREC 2003. 686-698
  
• Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Charles K. Nicholas, Akshay Java, Christopher James, Sowjanya Rajavaram, Vishal Shanbhag, Sachin Bhatkar, Drew Ogle:
  UMBC at TREC 12. 699-706
  
• Daqing He, Dina Demner-Fushman:
  HARD Experiment at Maryland: From Need Negotiation to Automated HARD Process. 707-714
  
• Nasreen Abdul Jaleel, Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, Qi Li, Xiaoyong Liu, Courtney Wade, James Allan:
  UMass at TREC 2003: HARD and QA. 715-725
  
• Vo Ngoc Anh, Alistair Moffat:
  Robust and Web Retrieval with Document-Centric Integral Impacts. 726-731
  
• Jahna Otterbacher, Hong Qi, Ali Hakim, Dragomir R. Radev:
  The University of Michigan at TREC 2003. 732-738
  
• Jacques Savoy, Yves Rasolofo, Laura Perret:
  Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic and Web Searches. 739-750
  
• Munirathnam Srikanth, Miguel E. Ruiz, Rohini K. Srihari:
  UB at TREC 12: HARD and Genomics Tracks. 751-755
  
• Patrick Ruch, Gilles Cohen, Frédéric Ehrler, Henning Müller, Giovanni Coray, Hatem Ghorbel, Vincenzo Pallotta, Christine Chichester:
  Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic Track. 756-761
  
• Marc Massot, Horacio Rodríguez, Daniel Ferrés:
  QA UdG-UPC System at TREC-12. 762-771
  
• Abdessamad Echihabi, Ulf Hermjakob, Eduard H. Hovy, Daniel Marcu, Eric Melz, Deepak Ravichandran:
  Multiple-Engine Question Answering in TextMap. 772-781
  
• Robert J. Gaizauskas, Mark A. Greenwood, Mark Hepple, Ian Roberts, Horacio Saggion, Matthew Sargaison:
  The University of Sheffield's TREC 2003 Q&A Experiments. 782-790
  
• Christopher Stokoe, John Tait:
  Towards a Sense Based Document Representation for Internet Information Retrieval. 791-795
  
• Ari Pirkola, Erkka Leppänen:
  TREC 2003 Genomics Track Experiments at UTA: Query Expansion with Predefinded High Frequency Terms. 796-805
  
• Hiroko Ao, Yasunori Yamamoto, Toshihisa Takagi:
  A Method to Retrieve Papers from MEDLINE: PETER System. 806-809
  
• David L. Yeung, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam, Egidio L. Terra:
  Task-Specific Query Expansion (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2003). 810-819
  
• Olga Vechtomova, Eric Lam, Murat Karamuftuoglu:
  Interactive Search Refinement Techniques for HARD Tasks. 820-827
  
• Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, Edward A. Fox:
  Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval. 828-836
  
• Rui Yang, Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, Edward A. Fox:
  VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track Report. 837-