INDEX OF TREC 2002 PAPERS BY TASK/TRACK Cross-language The TREC 2002 Arabic/English CLIR Track D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park F.C. Gey, University of California, Berkeley TREC 2002 Cross-lingual Retrieval at BBN A. Fraser, University of South California J. Xu, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies Experiments in Named Page Finding and Arabic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at TREC 2002 S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird Arabic Information Retrieval at IBM M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions S.S. Pradhan, V. Krugler, S. Bethard, W. Ward, D. Jurafsky, J.H. Martin, University of Colorado S.J. Blair-Goldensohn, A. H. Schlaikjer, E. Filatova, P.A. Duboue, H. Yu, R.J. Passonneau, V. Hatzivassiloglou, K.R. McKeown, Columbia University G. Illouz, currently at LIMSI-CNRS CLIR Experiments at Maryland for TREC 2002: Evidence Combination for Arabic-English Retrieval K. Darwish, D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks L.S. Larkey, J. Allan, M.E. Connell, A. Bolivar, C. Wade, University of Massachusetts Progress in General-Purpose IR Software G.B. Newby, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Report on the TREC 11 Experiment: Arabic, Named Page and Topic Distillation Searches J. Savoy, Y. Rasolofo, Université de Neuchâtel Filtering ***TREC 2002 Filtering Overview TREC 11 Experiments at CAS-ICT: Filtering and Web H. Xu, Z. Yang, B. Wang, B. Liu, J. Cheng, Y. Liu, Z. Yang, X. Cheng, S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences CLARIT Experiments in Batch Filtering: Term Selection and Threshold Optimization in IR and SVM Filters D.A. Evans, J. Shanahan, N. Roma, J. Bennett, V. Sheftel, E. Stoica, J. Montgomery, D.A. Hull, W. Tembe, Clairvoyance Corporation CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in Filtering C. Brouard, Laboratoire CLIPS IRIT at TREC 2002: Filtering Track M. Boughanem, H. Tebri, M. Tmar, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT-SIG) JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic Retrieval P. McNamee, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University Kernel Methods for Document Filtering Kermit Group: N. Cancedda, C. Goutte, J.-M. Renders, Xerox Research N. Cesa-Bianchi, A. Conconi, Università degli Studi de Milano Y. Li, J. Shawe-Taylor, A. Vinokourov, T. Graepel, University of London C. Gentile, Università dell'Insubria Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering Track S.E. Robertson, S. Walker, H. Zaragoza, R. Herbrich, Microsoft Research Ltd. TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS K.L. Kwok, P. Deng, N. Dinstl, M. Chan, Queens College, CUNY UB at TREC 11: Batch and Adaptive Filtering M. Srikanth, X. Wu, R. Srihari, State University of New York at Buffalo Rutgers Filtering Work at TREC 2002: Adaptive and Batch A.Anghelescu, E. Boros, D. Lewis, V. Menkov, D. Neu, P. Kantor, Rutgers University Example Based Text Matching Methodology for Routing Tasks A. Visa, J. Toivonen, T. Vesanen, J. Mäkinen, Tampere University of Technology B. Brack, Åbo Akademi University H. Vanharanta, Pori School of Technology and Economics Incremental Learning for Profile Training in Adaptive Document Filtering L. Ma, Q. Chen, S. Ma, M. Zhang, L. Cai, Tsinghua University Incremental Retrieval of Documents Relevant to a Topic C. Lyon, B. Dickerson, J. Malcolm, University of Hertfordshire Classifiers Stacking and Voting for Text Filtering R. Mihalcea, University of North Texas Interactive TREC 2002 Interactive Track Report W. Hersh, Oregon Health and Science University TREC 11 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO N. Craswell, D. Hawking, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, CSIRO J. Thom, RMIT University T. Upstill, Australian National University FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University TREC 11 Experiments at NII: The Effects of Virtual Relevant Documents in Batch Filtering K.-S. Lee, K. Kageura, A. Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics (NII) More Statistical Power Needed: The OHSU TREC 2002 Interactive Track Experiments Oregon Health & Science University Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 2002 N.J. Belkin, D. Kelly, G. Kim, J.-Y. Kim, H.-J. Lee, G. Muresan, M.-C. Tang, X.-J. Yuan, Rutgers University C. Cool, Queens College, CUNY Using Hierarchical Clustering and Summarisation Approaches for Web Retrieval: Glasgow at the TREC 2002 Interactive Track R. Osdin, I. Ounis, R.W. White, University of Glasgow Novelty ***TREC 2002 Novelty Overview Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding K. Collins-Thompson, P. Ogilvie, Y Zhang, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University Experiments in Novelty Detection at Columbia University B. Schiffman, Columbia University Novelty Track at IRIT-SIG T. Dkaki, J. Mothe, J. Augé, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse T. Dkaki, IUT URS J. Mothe, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres Midi-Pyrénées A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System Description H. Kazawa, T. Hirao, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratories Some Similarity Computation Methods in Novelty Detection M.-F. Tsai, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS K.L. Kwok, P. Deng, N. Dinstl, M. Chan, Queens College, CUNY A Crude Cut at Query Expansion P. Rennert, StreamSage, Inc. THU TREC 2002: Novelty Track Experiments M. Zhang, R. Song, C. Lin, S. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Jin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, Tsinghua University The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002 C. Monz, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam UIC at TREC 2002: Web Track (Draft) S. Liu, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago W. Wu, University of Illinois at Urban and Champion Novel Results and Some Answers The University of Iowa TREC 11 Results D. Eichmann, P. Srinivasan, University of Iowa UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks L.S. Larkey, J. Allan, M.E. Connell, A. Bolivar, C. Wade, University of Massachusetts The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks H. Qi, J. Otterbacher, A. Winkel, D.R. Radev, University of Michigan Question Answering Overview of the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC 2002 QA at BBN: Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation J. Xu, A. Licuanan, J. May, S. Miller, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2002 E. Nyberg, T. Mitamura, J. Carbonnell, J. Callan, K. Collins-Thompson, K. Czuba, M. Duggan, L. Hiyakumoto, N. Hu, Y. Huang, J. Ko, L.V. Lita, S. Murtagh, V. Pedro, D. Svoboda, Carnegie Mellon University ICT Experiments in TREC 11 QA Main Task H. Xu, H. Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Question Answering Using XML-Tagged Documents K.C. Litkowski, CL Research FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University IBM's Statistical Question Answering System-TREC 11 A. Ittycheriah, S. Roukos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center A Multi-Strategy and Multi-Source Approach to Question Answering J. Chu-Carroll, J. Prager, C. Welty, K. Czuba, D. Ferrucci, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Use of Patterns for Detection of Likely Answer Strings: A Systematic Approach M.M. Soubbotin, S.M. Soubbotin, InsightSoft-M Mining Knowledge from Repeated Co-Occurrences: DIOGENE at TREC 2002 B. Magnini, M. Negri, R. Prevete, H. Tanev, ITC-Irst LCC Tools for Question Answering D. Moldovan, S. Harabagiu, R. Girju, P. Morarescu, F. Lacatusu, A. Novischi, A. Badulescu, O. Bolohan, Language Computer Corporation Coupling Named Entity Recognition, Vector-Space Model and Knowledge Bases for TREC 11 Question Answering Track P. Bellot, E. Crestan, M. El-Bèze, L. Gillard, Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon E. Crestan, C. de Loupy, Sinequa S.A.S. The Question Answering System QALC at LIMSI, Experiments in Using Web and WordNet G. de Chalendar, T. Dalmas, F. Elkateb-Gara, O. Ferret, B. Grau, M. Hurault-Plantet, G. Illouz, L. Monceaux, I. Robba, A. Vilnat, LIMSI-CNRS MITRE's Qanda at TREC-11 J.D. Burger, L. Ferro, W. Greiff, J. Henderson, S. Mardis, A. Morgan, The MITRE Corporation M. Light, The University of Iowa A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System Description H. Kazawa, T. Hirao, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratories The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question Answering H. Yang, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore Web Based Pattern Mining and Matching Approach to Question Answering D. Zhang, W.S. Lee, Singapore-MIT Alliance Question Answering Approach Using a WordNet-based Answer Type Taxonomy S.-H. Na, I.-S. Kang, S.-Y. Lee, J.-H. Lee, POSTECH and Advanced Information Technology Research Center (AITrc) Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track A.R. Diekema, J. Chen, N. McCracken, N.E. Ozgencil, M.D. Taffet, O. Yilmazel, E.D. Liddy, Syracuse University University of Alicante Experiments at TREC 2002 J. Vicedo, F. Llopis, A. Ferrández, Universidad de Alicante The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002 C. Monz, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Building an Arabic Stemmer for Information Retrieval A. Chen, F. Gey, University of California at Berkeley Question-Answering via Enhanced Understanding of Questions D. Roth, C. Cumby, X. Li, P. Morie, R. Nagarajan, N. Rizzolo, K. Small, W.-T. Yih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2002 R.F.E. Sutcliffe, University of Limerick The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks H. Qi, J. Otterbacher, A. Winkel, D.R. Radev, University of Michigan The QUANTUM Question Answering System at TREC 11 L. Plamondon, G. Lapalme, Université de Montréal L. Kosseim, Concordia University PiQASso 2002 G. Attardi, A. Cisternino, F. Formica, M. Simi, A. Tommasi, University of Pisa The University of Sheffield TREC 2002 Q&A System M. Greenwood, I. Roberts, R. Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield Natural Language Based Reformulation Resource and Wide Exploitation for Question Answering U. Hermjakob, A. Echihabi, D. Marcu, University of Southern California Statistical Selection of Exact Answers (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2002) C.L.A. Clarke, G.V. Cormack, G. Kemkes, M. Laszlo, T.R. Lynam, E.L. Terra, P.L. Tilker, University of Waterloo The York QA Prototype Question Answering System M. De Boni, J.-L. Jara-Valencia, S. Manandhar, University of York - Video The TREC-2002 Video Track Report A.F. Smeaton, Dublin City University P. Over, National Institute of Standards and Technology Video Classification and Retrieval with the Informedia Digital Video Library System A. Hauptmann, R. Yan, Y. Qi, R. Jin, M. Christel, M. Derthick, M.-Y. Chen, R. Baron, W.-H. Lin, T.D. Ng, Carnegie Mellon University CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in Video Retrieval D. Moraru, L. Besacier, P. Mulhern, G.M. Quénot, CLIPS-IMAG CWI at the TREC 2002 Video Track T. Westerveld, A. de Vries, A. van Ballegooij, CWI Dublin City University Video Track Experiments for TREC 2002 P. Browne, C. Czirjek, C. Gurrin, R. Jarina, H. Lee, S. Marlow, K. McDonald, N. Murphy, N.E. O'Connor, A.F. Smeaton, J. Ye, Dublin City University Semantic Feature Extraction using Mpeg Macro-block Classification F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo, B. Huet, Institut Eurécom FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University IBM Research TREC 2002 Video Retrieval System B. Adams, G. Iyengar, C. Neti, H.J. Nock, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center A. Amir, H.H. Permuter, S. Srinivasan, IBM Alamaden Research Center C. Dorai, A. Jaimes, C. Lang, C.-Y. Lin, A. Natsev, M. Naphade, J.R. Smith, B.L. Tseng, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center S. Ghosal, R. Singh, Ashwin T.V., IBM India Research Lab D. Zhang, Columbia University Video Searching and Browsing Using Viewfinder D.E. Albertson, J. Mostafa, J. Fieber, Indiana University Video Retrieval Using Global Features in Keyframes M.J. Pickering, D. Heesch, S. Rüger, Imperial College London R. O'Callaghan, D. Bull, University of Bristol TREC 2002 Video Track Experiments at MediaTeam Oulu and VTT M. Rautiainen, D. Vorobiev, K. Noponen, P. Väyrynen, M. Hosio, E. Matimmikko, T. Ojala, T. Seppänen, Media Team Oulu J. Penttila, S.-M. Mäkelä, J. Peltola, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland TREC Feature Extraction by Active Learning J. Vendrig, I. Patras, C. Snoek, M. Worring, Mediamill/ISIS University of Amsterdam J. den Hartog, S. Raaijmakers, J. van Rest, Mediamill TNO-TPD D. van Leeuwen, TNO-Human Factors Temporal Multi-Resolution Framework for Shot Boundary Detection and Keyframe Extraction Chandrashekhara A., H.-M. Feng, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore Shot Boundary Detection Using the Moving Query Window S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, H.E. Williams, RMIT University Automatic Shot Boundary Detection and Classification of Indoor and Outdoor Scenes A.Miene, T. Hermes, G. Ioannidis, R. Fathi, O. Herzok, University of Bremen Video Indexing and Retrieval at UMD C. Wolf, INSA de Lyon D. Doermann, University of Maryland M. Rautiainen, University of Oulu Web ***TREC 2002 Web Overview Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding K. Collins-Thompson, P. Ogilvie, Y Zhang, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University TREC 11 Experiments at CAS-ICT: Filtering and Web H. Xu, Z. Yang, B. Wang, B. Liu, J. Cheng, Y. Liu, Z. Yang, X. Cheng, S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences Pliers at Trec 2002 A. MacFarlane, City University, London TREC 11 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO N. Craswell, D. Hawking, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, CSIRO J. Thom, RMIT University T. Upstill, Australian National University FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks L. Wu, X. Huang, J. Niu, Y. Xia, Z. Feng, Y. Zhou, Fudan University Experiments in Named Page Finding and Arabic Retrieval with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at TREC 2002 S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird Topic Distillation with Knowledge Agents E. Amitay, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, R. Lempel, A. Soffer, IBM Research Labs Haifa R. Lempel, Technion IIT at TREC-11 Linear Combinations Based on Document Structure and Varied Stemming for Arabic Retrieval A. Chowdhury, M. Aljlayl, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, D. Grossman, O. Frieder Illinois Institute of Technology IRIT at TREC 2002: Web Track A.Benammar, M. Boughanem, G. Hubert, C. Laffaire, J. Mothe, IRIT-SIG Finding Named Pages via Frequent Anchor Descriptions J. Malawong, A. Rungsawang, Kasetsart University LIT at TREC 2002: Web Track N. Yu, J. Donghong, Y. Lingpeng, Laboratories for Information Technology (LIT) Extracting Answers from the Web Using Data Annotation and Data Mining Techniques J. Lin, A. Fernandes, B. Katz, G. Marton, S. Tellex, MIT TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS K.L. Kwok, P. Deng, N. Dinstl, M. Chan, Queens College, CUNY THU TREC 2002: Web Track Experiments M. Zhang, R. Song, C. Lin, S. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Jin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, Tsinghua University The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002 C. Monz, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam University of Glasgow at the Web Track of TREC 2002 V. Plachouras, I. Ounis, G. Amati, C.J. Van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow G. Amati also affiliated to Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rom CARROTT 11 and the TREC 11 Web Track R.S. Cost, S. Kallurkar, H. Majithia, C. Nicholas, Y. Shi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Homepage Finding and Topic Distillation Using a Common Retrieval Strategy V. Ngoc Anh, A. Moffat, University of Melbourne Progress in General-Purpose IR Software G.B. Newby, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Report on the TREC 11 Experiment: Arabic, Named Page and Topic Distillation Searches J. Savoy, Y. Rasolofo, Université de Neuchâtel TREC 2002 Web Track "Automated Word Sense Disambiguation for Internet Information Retrieval" C.M. Stokoe, J. Tait, University of Sunderland Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries E.G. Toms, L. Freund, C. Li, University of Toronto Web Document Retrieval Using Sentence-Query Similarity E.-K. Park, S.-I. Moon, D.-Y. Ra, Yonsei University M.-G. Jang, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute v