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Overview of the TREC 2006 Question Answering Track

November 5, 2008
Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Jimmy Lin, Diane Kelly
The TREC 2006 question answering track contained two tasks: a main task and a complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) task. As in 2005, the main task consisted of series of factoid, list, and ``Other'' questions organized around a set of targets

Atomic Data for Lighting Applications

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Gillian Nave, Craig J. Sansonetti, Joseph Reader
A major objective of our research program is the observation of spectra of rare earth elements in support of our program of atomic data measurements for lighting applications. Three years ago, NIST acquired a high-resolution Fourier transform spectrometer

Forum Report: Permissive Metric Only Labeling

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Kenneth S. Butcher
Report on the Forum on Metric-only Labeling held on November 7, 2002, in Washington, DC. The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Conference on Weights and Measures sponsored this forum to initiate a joint effort to eliminate

Guided Data Capture (GDC) Software

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, R C. Wilhoit, Qian Dong, Michael D. Frenkel
The program provides software tools to ease capture (compilation) of experimental thermodynamic and transport property data from the literature for pure compounds, binary and ternary mixtures, and chemical reactions (including change-of-state and

Charpy Machine Verification: Limits and Uncertainty

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Jolene Splett, Christopher N. McCowan, Chih-Ming Wang
The purpose of this document is to clarify some issues pertaining to uncertainty statements and the ASTM E 23 limits used in the Charpy machine verification program. We explain some of the distributional subtleties associated with uncertainty and

The TREC 2006 Terabyte Track

March 24, 2008
Author(s)
Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. Clarke, Ian Soboroff
The primary goal of the Terabyte Track is to develop an evaluation methodology for terabyte-scale document collections. In addition, we are interested in efficiency and scalability issues, which can be studied more easily in the context of a larger

Overview of the TREC 2006 Enterprise Track

February 25, 2008
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Arjen de Vries, Nick Craswell
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data --- intranet pages, email archives, document repositories --- that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations, such that for example, an email ranking technique

Overview of the TREC 2006 Blog Track

November 27, 2007
Author(s)
Iadh Ounis, Maarten de Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne, Ian Soboroff
The Blog track began this year, with the aim to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. For this purpose, a new large-scale test collection, namely the TREC Blog06 collection, has been created. In the first pilot run of the track in

Overview of the TREC 2005 Question Answering Track

October 2, 2006
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Hoa T. Dang
The TREC 2005 Question Answering (QA) track contained three tasks: the main question answering task, the document ranking task, and the relationship task. In the main task, question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series was about a

Specular Gloss

January 1, 2006
Author(s)
Maria E. Nadal, E A. Early, E A. Thompson

Flammability of Polymer Clay Nanocomposites Consortium:Final Report

April 4, 2005
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Takashi Kashiwagi, A B. Morgan, Rick D. Davis, Richard H. Harris Jr., L D. Brassell
In 1997 NIST reported that polymer layered-silicate (clay) nanocomposites exhibit reduced flammability, in the form of reduced heat release rate (HRR). The unique character of this new approach to flame retard polymeric materials was the dual benefit of

Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry in Neutron Beta Decay

January 1, 2005
Author(s)
Hans P. Mumm, Maynard S. Dewey, Jeffrey S. Nico, Alan K. Thompson, A Garcia, J F. Wilkerson, S J. Freedman, B K. Fujikawa, T E. Chupp, R L. Cooper, C A. Trull, Fred E. Wietfeldt, G L. Jones

Technical Digest, Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements 2004

September 1, 2004
Author(s)
Paul A. Williams, Gordon W. Day
This digest is made up of technical papers presented at the 13th biennial Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements (SOFM 2004)in Boulder, Colorado, September 28-30, 2004. Paper categories include wavelength metrology, nonlinear measurements, fiber

Thirteenth International Conference on Computer Technology in Welding

October 1, 2003
Author(s)
Thomas A. Siewert, William G. Rippey
The Thirteenth International Conference on Computer Technology in Welding was held June 18, 2003 in Orlando, Florida, under the sponsorship of the American Welding Society, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and The Welding Institue
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