University of Glasgow ( uog _ tw ) at TREC Microblog 2012

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In TREC 2012, we participated in the search and filtering tasks of the Microblog Track. The Microblog track is in its second year, and whilst the real-time ad-hoc search task remained very similar to 2011, a new real-time filtering task was introduced. For both tasks, we made use of temporal evidence and a burst detection algorithm to re-rank documents created during bursty periods. We also mad...

University of Glasgow at TREC 2012: Experiments with Terrier in Medical Records, Microblog, and Web Tracks

In TREC 2012, we focus on tackling the new challenges posed by the Medical, Microblog and Web tracks, using our Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. In particular, for the Medical track, we investigate how to exploit implicit knowledge within medical records, with the aim of better identifying those records from patients with specific medical conditions. For the Microblog track adhoc task, w...

University of Glasgow (UoG_TwTeam) at TREC Microblog 2013

In TREC 2013, we participated in the ad-hoc search task of the Microblog Track. The Microblog track, which is in its third consecutive year, has remained very similar to the last two. This paper describes the approaches we have implemented for Tweet retrieval, which comprehend query expansion, and baseline model selection. The results for all the runs submitted are well above the median achieve...

York University at TREC 2012: Microblog Track

The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2012

We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam’s ILPS group in the Knowledge Base Acceleration and Microblog tracks at TREC 2012.