Question-answering, relevance feedback and summarisation: TREC-9 interactive track report

N. Alexander; C. Brown; J.M. Jose; I. Ruthven; A. Tombros; E.M. Voorhees; D.K. Harman

Question-answering, relevance feedback and summarisation: TREC-9 interactive track report

N. Alexander, C. Brown, J.M. Jose, I. Ruthven, A. Tombros, E.M. Voorhees (Editor), D.K. Harman (Editor)

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In this paper we report on the effectiveness of query-biased summaries for a question-answering task. Our summarisation system presents searchers with short summaries of documents, composed of a series of highly matching sentences extracted from the documents. These summaries are also used as evidence for a query expansion algorithm to test the use of summaries as evidence for interactive and automatic query expansion.

Original language	English
Pages	523-550
Number of pages	28
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2000
Event	Proceedings of the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9) - Maryland, USA Duration: 13 Nov 2000 → 16 Nov 2000

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Conference	Proceedings of the Ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9)
City	Maryland, USA
Period	13/11/00 → 16/11/00

Keywords

question-answering
relevance feedback
summarisation
searching
information retrieval

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Question-answering, relevance feedback and summarisation: TREC-9 interactive track report

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