Proceedings of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference

UMBC at TREC 12

Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Charles Nicholas, Akshay Java, and et al.

November 18, 2003

We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Nov- elty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation task. For the novelty task we tried several methods for exploit- ing semantic information of sentences based on the SVD technique. We used SVD to expand the query and to filter redundant sentences. We also used a clus- tering algorithm that is also based on SVD.

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Tags: information retrieval

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: NIST

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