Browsing by Publisher "National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)"
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bigIR at TREC 2019: Graph-based Analysis for News Background Linking
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2019 , Conference)Nowadays, it is very rare to find an online news article that is self-contained with everything a reader would want to know about the article's story. Therefore, it became vital for any article to contain links to other ... -
bigIR at TREC 2020: Simple but Deep Retrieval of Passages and Documents
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2020 , Conference)In this paper, we present the participation of the bigIR team at Qatar University in the TREC Deep Learning 2020 track. We participated in both document and passage retrieval tasks, and each of its subtasks, full ranking ... -
bigIR at TREC 2021: Adopting Transfer Learning for News Background Linking
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2021 , Conference)In this paper, we present the participation of the bigIR team at Qatar University in the TREC 2021 news track. We participated in the background linking task. The task mainly aims to retrieve news articles that provide ... -
Exploiting Live Feedback for Tweet Real-time Push Notifications
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2017 , Conference)Twitter has been developed as an immense information creation and sharing network through which users post diverse information. Although a user would regularly check her Twitter timeline to stay up-to-date on her topics ... -
HBKU at TREC 2020: Conversational Multi-Stage Retrieval with Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2020 , Conference)Passage retrieval in a conversational context is extremely challenging due to limited data resources. Information seeking in a conversational setting may contain omissions, implied context, and topic shifts. TREC CAsT ... -
Light-weight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2016 , Conference)Microblogging platforms and Twitter specifically have become a major resource for exploring diverse topics of interest that vary from the world's breaking news to other topics such as sports, science, religion and even ... -
QU at TREC-2013: Expansion Experiments for Microblog Ad hoc Search
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2013 , Conference)In the first appearance of Qatar University (QU) at Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), our submitted microblog runs explored different ways of expanding the context of both queries and tweets to overcome the sparsity and ... -
QU at TREC-2014: Online Clustering with Temporal and Topical Expansion for Tweet Timeline Generation
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2014 , Conference)In this work, we present our participation in the microblog track in TREC-2014, building upon our first participation last year. We present our approaches for the two tasks of this year: temporally-anchored ad-hoc search ... -
QU at TREC-2015: Building Real-Time Systems for Tweet Filtering and Question Answering
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2015 , Conference)This paper presents our participation in the microblog and LiveQA tracks in TREC-2015. Both tracks required building a "real-time" system that monitors a data stream and responds to users' information needs in real-time. ... -
Real, Live, and Concise: Answering Open-Domain Questions with Word Embedding and Summarization
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2016 , Conference)Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained momentum in the recent years with the explosive rate at which social media has been proliferating. With many questions left unanswered ...
