Stephen Tomlinson. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003). Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2003. NIST Special Publication 500-255.
Hummingbird participated in 4 tasks of TREC 2003: the ad hoc task of the Robust Retrieval Track (find at least one relevant document in the first 10 rows from 1.9GB of news and government data), the navigational task of the Web Track (find the home or named page in 1.2 million pages (18GB) from the .GOV domain), the topic distillation task of the Web Track (find key resources for topics in the first 10 rows from home pages of .GOV), and the primary task of the Genomics Track (find all records focusing on the named gene in 1.1GB of MEDLINE data). In the ad hoc task, SearchServer found a relevant document in the first 10 rows for 48 of the 50 new short (Title-only) topics. In the navigational task, SearchServer returned the home or named page in the first 10 rows for more than 75% of the 300 queries. In the distillation task, a SearchServer run found the most key resources in the first 10 rows of the submitted runs from 23 groups.
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