Donna K. Harman

Publications

DUC in Context

November 21, 2007

Author(s):

Paul D. Over, Hoa T. Dang, Donna K. Harman

Recent years have seen increased interest in text summarization with emphasis on evaluation of prototype ststems. Many factors can affect the design of such...

The Importance of Focused Evaluations: A Case Study of TREC and DUC

January 10, 2007

Author(s):

Donna K. Harman

Evaluation has always been an important part of scientific research, and in information retrieval, this evaluation has mostly been done using test collections...

The Fifth Text Retrival Conference [TREC-5]

October 30, 2006

Author(s):

Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman

This paper is the track report for the TREC-5 confusion track. For TREC-5, retrieval from corrupted data was studied through retrieval of specific target...

TREC: An Overview

February 17, 2006

Author(s):

Donna K. Harman, Ellen M. Voorhees

The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a workshop series designed to build the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval...

The History of IDF and its Influences on IR and Other Fields

December 21, 2005

Author(s):

Donna K. Harman

The surprisingly simple IDF measure developed in 1972 by Karen Sparck Jones has continued to dominate the term weighting metrics used in information retrieval...