NIST Special Publication 500-226:
Overview of the Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-3)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

PAPERS

1. Overview of the Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-3), page 1
   D. Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
2. Xerox TREC-3 Report: Combining Exact and Fuzzy Predictors, page 21
   H. Schutze, J. O. Pedersen, M. A. Hearst (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
3. Document Retrieval and Routing Using the INQUERY System, page 29
   J. Broglio, J. P. Callan, W. B. Croft, D. W. Nachbar (University of Massachusetts)
4. Natural Language Information Retrieval: TREC-3 Report, page 39
   T. Strzalkowski, J. P. Carballo, M. Marinescu (New York University)
5. Indexing Structures Derived from Syntax in TREC-3: System Description, page 55
   A. F. Smeaton, R. O'Donnell, F. Kelledy (Dublin City University)
6. Automatic Query Expansion Using SMART: TREC 3, page 69
   C. Buckley, G. Salton, J. Allan, A. Singhal (Cornell University)
7. Comparison of Fragmentation Schemes for Document Retrieval, page 81
   R. Wilkinson, J. Zobel (CITRI, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
8. Information Retrieval Systems for Large Document Collections, page 85
   A. Moffat, J. Zobel (CITRI, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
9. The Collection Fusion Problem, page 95
   E. Voorhees, N. K. Gupta, B. Johnson-Laird (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.)
10. Combination of Multiple Searches, page 105
    J. A. Shaw, E. A. Fox (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
11. Okapi at TREC-3, page 109
    S. E. Robertson, S. Walker, S. Jones, M. M. Hancock-Beaulieu, M. Gatford
    (City University)
12. Experiments in the Probabilistic Retrieval of Full Text Documents, page 127
    W. S. Cooper, A. Chen, F. C. Gey (University of California, Berkeley)
13. Routing and Ad-hoc Retrieval with the TREC-3 Collection in a Distributed
    Loosely Federated Environment, page 135
    N. Walczuch, N. Fuhr, M. Pollmann, B. Sievers (University of Dortmund, Germany)
14. New Tools and Old Habits: The Interactive Searching Behavior of Expert Online
    Searches using INQUERY, page 145
    J. Koenemann, R. Quatrain, C. Cool, N. J. Belkin (Rutgers University)
15. Interactive Exploration as a Formal Text Retrieval Method: How Well
    can Interactivity Compensate for Unsophisticated Retrieval Algorithms
    Figure 4 (Note: Use landscape to view), page 179
    N. Charoenkitkarn, M. Chignell, G. Golovchinsky (University of Toronto)
16. Interactive Document Retrieval Using TOPIC (A report on the TREC-3
    experiment), page 201
    R. M. Tong (Verity, Inc.)
17. TREC-3 Ad Hoc Retrieval and Routing Experiments using the WIN System, page 211
    P. Thompson, H. Turtle, B. Yang, J. Flood (West Publishing Company)
18. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI): TREC-3 Report, page 219
    S. T. Dumais (Bellcore)
19. Query Expansion/Reduction and its Impact on Retrieval Effectiveness, page 231
    X. A. Lu, R. B. Keefer (Data Central, Inc.)
20. Improving a Basic Retrieval Method by Links and Passage Level Evidence, page 241
    D. Knaus, E. Mittendorf, P. Schauble (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))
21. TREC-3 Ad-Hoc, Routing Retrieval and Thresholding Experiments using PIRCS, page 247
    K. L. Kwok, L. Grunfeld (Queens College); D. D. Lewis (AT&T Bell Labs)
22. Searching For Meaning With The Help Of A PADRE, page 257
    D. Hawking, P. Thistlewaite (Australian National University)
23. Using An N-Gram-Based Document Representation With A Vector
    Processing Retrieval Model, page 269
    W. Cavnar (The Environmental Research Institute of Michigan)
24. A Parallel DBMS Approach to IR in TREC-3, page 279
    D. A. Grossman (Office of Information Technology),
    D. O. Holmes (AT&T Global Information Solutions),
    O. Frieder (George Mason University)
25. Research in Automatic Profile Creation and Relevance Ranking
    with LMDS, page 289
    J. Yochum (Logicon, Inc.)
26. TREC-3 Retrieval Evaluation Using Expert Network
    Y. Yang, C. G. Chute, G. E. Atkin, A. Anda (Mayo Clinic/Foundation)
27. Acquaintance: A Novel Vector-Space N-Gram Technique for Document
    Categorization
    S. Huffman, M. Damashek (Department of Defense)
28. Information Retrieval System for TREC3, page 311
    K. Satoh, A. Okumura, K. Yamabana (NEC Corporation)
29. Decision Level Data Fusion for Routing of Documents in the TREC3
    Context: A Base Case Analysis of Worst Case Results, page 319
    P. B. Kantor (Rutgers University)
30. TREC-3: Experience With Conceptual Relations in Information
    Retrieval, page 333
    D. Gardiner, J. Riedl, J. Slagle (University of Minnesota)
31. The FDF Query Generation Workbench, page 353
    K-I. Yu, P. Scheibe, F. Nordby (Paracel, Inc.)
32. Report on the TREC-3 Experiment: A Learning Scheme in a Vector
    Space Model, page 361
    J. Savoy, M. Ndarugendamwo, D. Vrajitoru (Universite de Neuchatel)
33. Using Database Schemes to Detect Relevant Information, page 373
    J. Driscoll, G. Theis, G. Billings (University of Central Florida)
34. A Statistical Analysis of the TREC-3 Data, page 385
    J. Tague-Sutcliffe, J. Blustein (University of Western Ontario)

APPENDICES

A. TREC-3 Results, page A-1

• Adhoc Results, page A-14
• Routing Results, page A-60

B. System Features, page B-1

• Australian National University
• Bellcore
• City University
• Cornell University
• Dublin City University
• George Mason University
• Informationssysteme
• Logicon Operating Systems
• Mayo Clinic/Foundation
• National Security Agency
• NEC Corporation
• New York University
• Queens College, CUNY
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Rutgers University (N. Belkin)
• Rutgers University (P. Kantor)
• Siemens Corporate Research Inc.
• TRW/Paracel
• Universitaet Dortmund
• Universite de Neuchatel
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Central Florida
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• University of Minnesota
• University of Toronto
• Verity, Inc.
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Westlaw Publishing Company
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

C. Comparison Between TREC2 and TREC3, page C-1
    K. Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge)