UMBC at TREC 12

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

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.

Date: November 18, 2003

Book Title: Proceedings of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: NIST

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@InProceedings{UMBC_at_TREC_12,
author = "Srikanth Kallurkar and Yongmei Shi and R. Scott Cost and Charles Nicholas and Akshay Java and et al. ",
title = "{UMBC at TREC 12}",
month = "November",
year = "2003",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference",
publisher = "NIST",
}