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The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A Success Story

April 1, 2000
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo, C G. Auzanne, Ellen M. Voorhees
This paper describes work within the NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) over the last three years in designing and implementing evaluations of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) technology within a broadcast news domain. SDR involves the search and

The TREC-5 Confusion Track: Comparing Retrieval Methods for Scanned Text

January 1, 2000
Author(s)
Paul B. Kantor, Ellen M. Voorhees
A known-item search is a particular information retrieval task in which the system is asked to find a single target document in a large document set. The TREC-5 confusion track used a set of 49 known-item tasks to study the impact of data corruption on

Overview of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6)

October 25, 1999
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman
The Text REtrieval Conference is a workshop series designed to encourage research on text retrieval for realistic applications by providing large test collections, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested in comparing results

TREC-6 1997 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results

October 25, 1999
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo, Ellen M. Voorhees, Vincent M. Stanford, K Sparck Jones
This paper describes the 1997 TREC-6 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented a first evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a combination of automatic speech recognition and information retrieval technologies. The

Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

July 13, 1999
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
Information retrieval addresses the problem of finding those documents whose content matches a user's request from among a large collection of documents. Currently, the most successful general purpose retrieval methodsare statistical methods that treat

The Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7)

July 1, 1999
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman
This report constitutes the proceedings of the seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7) held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 9-11, 1998. The conference was co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Defense

1998 TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results

October 26, 1998
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo, Ellen M. Voorhees, C G. Auzanne, Vincent M. Stanford, B A. Lund
This paper describes the 1998 TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented an evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a combination of automatic speech recognition and information retrieval technologies. The motivations

Information Technology: The Sixth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-6)

August 1, 1998
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman
This paper provides an overview of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 19-21, 1997. TREC-6 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research in text retrieval. The paper describes the tasks

Information Technology: The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference [TREC-5]

November 1, 1997
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman
This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in the remainder of the proceedings. It defines the common retrieval tasks performed in TREC-5, the test collections used, and the evaluation methodology. The overview of the retrieval results