Overview of TREC 2002, page
E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology

The TREC 2002 Arabic/English CLIR Track, page
D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park
F.C. Gey, University of California, Berkeley

The TREC 2002 Filtering Track Report, page
S. Robertson, Microsoft Research
I. Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology

TREC 2002 Interactive Track Report, page
W. Hersh, Oregon Health and Science University

Overview of the TREC 2002 Novelty Track, page
D. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Overview of the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track, page
E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology

The TREC-2002 Video Track Report, page
A.F. Smeaton, Dublin City University
P. Over, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Overview of the TREC-2002 Web Track, page
N. Craswell and D. Hawking
CSIRO

TREC 2002 Cross-lingual Retrieval at BBN, page
A. Fraser, J. Xu, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies

TREC 2002 QA at BBN: Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation, page
J. Xu, A. Licuanan, J. May, S. Miller, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies

TREC 11 Experiments at CAS-ICT: Filtering and Web, page
H. Xu, Z. Yang, B. Wang, B. Liu, J. Cheng, Y. Liu, Z. Yang, X. Cheng,
S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ICT Experiments in TREC 11 QA Main Task, page
H. Xu, H. Zhang, S. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Pliers at Trec 2002,
A. MacFarlane, City University, London

Question Answering Using XML-Tagged Documents,
K.C. Litkowski, CL Research

CLARIT Experiments in Batch Filtering: Term Selection and Threshold Optimization in IR and SVM Filters, page
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, page
C. Brouard, Laboratoire CLIPS

CLIPS at TREC 11: Experiments in Video Retrieval, page
G.M. Qu�not, D. Moraru, L. Besacier, P. Mulhern, CLIPS-IMAG

Information Filtering, Novelty Detection, and Named-Page Finding, page
K. Collins-Thompson, P. Ogilvie, Y Zhang, J. Callan, Carnegie Mellon University

Video Classification and Retrieval with the Informedia Digital Video Library System, page
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

The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2002, page
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

Experiments in Novelty Detection at Columbia University, page
B. Schiffman, Columbia University

TREC 11 Web and Interactive Tracks at CSIRO, page
N. Craswell, D. Hawking, R. Wilkinson, M. Wu, CSIRO
J. Thom, RMIT University
T. Upstill, Australian National University

CWI at the TREC 2002 Video Track, page
T. Westerveld, A. de Vries, A. van Ballegooij, CWI

Dublin City University Video Track Experiments for TREC 2002, page
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, page
F. Souvannavong, B. Merialdo, B. Huet, Institut Eur�com

FDU at TREC 2002: Filtering, Q&A, Web and Video Tasks, page
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, page
S. Tomlinson, Hummingbird

Arabic Information Retrieval at IBM, page
M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Topic Distillation with Knowledge Agents, page
E. Amitay, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, R. Lempel, A. Soffer, IBM Research Labs Haifa
R. Lempel, Technion

IBM's Statistical Question Answering System-TREC 11, page
A. Ittycheriah, S. Roukos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

A Multi-Strategy and Multi-Source Approach to Question Answering, page
J. Chu-Carroll, J. Prager, C. Welty, K. Czuba, D. Ferrucci,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

IBM Research TREC 2002 Video Retrieval System, page
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

IIT at TREC 2002 Linear Combinations Based on Document Structure and Varied Stemming for Arabic Retrieval,
page
A. Chowdhury, M. Aljlayl, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, D. Grossman, O. Frieder
Illinois Institute of Technology

Video Searching and Browsing Using Viewfinder, page
D.E. Albertson, J. Mostafa, J. Fieber, Indiana University

Video Retrieval Using Global Features in Keyframes, page
M.J. Pickering, D. Heesch, S. R�ger, Imperial College London
R. O'Callaghan, D. Bull, University of Bristol

Use of Patterns for Detection of Likely Answer Strings: A Systematic Approach, page
M.M. Soubbotin, S.M. Soubbotin, InsightSoft-M

Novelty Track at IRIT-SIG, page
T. Dkaki, J. Mothe, J. Aug�, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
T. Dkaki, IUT URS
J. Mothe, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Ma�tres Midi-Pyr�n�es

IRIT at TREC 2002: Filtering Track, page
M. Boughanem, H. Tebri, M. Tmar,
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT-SIG)

IRIT at TREC 2002: Web Track, page
A.Benammar, M. Boughanem, G. Hubert, C. Laffaire, J. Mothe, IRIT-SIG

Mining Knowledge from Repeated Co-Occurrences: DIOGENE at TREC 2002, page
B. Magnini, M. Negri, R. Prevete, H. Tanev, ITC-Irst

JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic Retrieval, page
P. McNamee, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University

Finding Named Pages via Frequent Anchor Descriptions, page
J. Malawong, A. Rungsawang, Kasetsart University

Kernel Methods for Document Filtering, page
N. Cancedda, C. Goutte, J.-M. Renders, Xerox Research
N. Cesa-Bianchi, A. Conconi, Universit� degli Studi de Milano
Y. Li, J. Shawe-Taylor, A. Vinokourov, T. Graepel, University of London
C. Gentile, Universit� dell'Insubria

LIT at TREC 2002: Web Track, page
N. Yu, J. Donghong, Y. Lingpeng, Laboratories for Information Technology (LIT)

LCC Tools for Question Answering, page
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 page
P. Bellot, E. Crestan, M. El-B�ze, 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, page
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

TREC Feature Extraction by Active Learning, page
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

Microsoft Cambridge at TREC 2002: Filtering Track, page
S.E. Robertson, S. Walker, H. Zaragoza, R. Herbrich, Microsoft Research Ltd.

Extracting Answers from the Web Using Data Annotation and Knowledge Mining Techniques, page
J. Lin, A. Fernandes, B. Katz, G. Marton, S. Tellex, MIT

MITRE's Qanda at TREC-11, page
J.D. Burger, L. Ferro, W. Greiff, J. Henderson, S. Mardis, A. Morgan, The MITRE Corporation
M. Light, The University of Iowa

TREC 11 Experiments at NII: The Effects of Virtual Relevant Documents in Batch Filtering , page
K.-S. Lee, K. Kageura, A. Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics (NII)

A Machine Learning Approach for QA and Novelty Tracks: NTT System Description, page
H. Kazawa, T. Hirao, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Some Similarity Computation Methods in Novelty Detection, page
M.-F. Tsai, H.-H. Chen, National Taiwan University

The Integration of Lexical Knowledge and External Resources for Question Answering, page
H. Yang, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore

Temporal Multi-Resolution Framework for Shot Boundary Detection and Keyframe Extraction, page
Chandrashekhara A., H.-M. Feng, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore

Web Based Pattern Mining and Matching Approach to Question Answering, page
D. Zhang, W.S. Lee, Singapore-MIT Alliance

More Statistical Power Needed: The OHSU TREC 2002 Interactive Track Experiments, page
W. Hersh, S. Moy, D. Kraemer, L. Sacherek, D. Olson, Oregon Health & Science University

Question Answering Approach Using a WordNet-based Answer Type Taxonomy, page
S.-H. Na, I.-S. Kang, S.-Y. Lee, J.-H. Lee, POSTECH and
Advanced Information Technology Research Center (AITrc)

TREC 2002 Web, Novelty and Filtering Track Experiments using PIRCS, page
K.L. Kwok, P. Deng, N. Dinstl, M. Chan, Queens College, CUNY

Shot Boundary Detection Using the Moving Query Window,
page
S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, J.A. Thom, H.E. Williams, RMIT University

Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 2002, page
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

Rutgers Filtering Work at TREC 2002: Adaptive and Batch, page
A.Anghelescu, E. Boros, D. Lewis, V. Menkov, D. Neu, P. Kantor, Rutgers University

A Crude Cut at Query Expansion, page
P. Rennert, StreamSage, Inc.

Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track, page
A.R. Diekema, J. Chen, N. McCracken, N.E. Ozgencil, M.D. Taffet, O. Yilmazel, E.D. Liddy, Syracuse University

Example Based Text Matching Methodology for Routing Tasks, page
A. Visa, J. Toivonen, T. Vesanen, J. M�kinen, Tampere University of Technology
B. Brack, �bo Akademi University
H. Vanharanta, Pori School of Technology and Economics

Incremental Learning for Profile Training in Adaptive Document Filtering, page
L. Ma, Q. Chen, S. Ma, M. Zhang, L. Cai, Tsinghua University

THU TREC 2002: Novelty Track Experiments, page
M. Zhang, R. Song, C. Lin, S. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Jin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, Tsinghua University

THU TREC 2002: Web Track Experiments, page
M. Zhang, R. Song, C. Lin, S. Ma, Z. Jiang, Y. Jin, Y. Liu, L. Zhao, Tsinghua University

University of Alicante Experiments at TREC 2002, page
J.L. Vicedo, F. Llopis, A. Ferr�ndez, Universidad de Alicante

The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2002, page
C. Monz, J. Kamps, M. de Rijke

Automatic Shot Boundary Detection and Classification of Indoor and Outdoor Scenes, page
A.Miene, T. Hermes, G. Ioannidis, R. Fathi, O. Herzog, University of Bremen

Building an Arabic Stemmer for Information Retrieval, page
A. Chen, F. Gey, University of California at Berkeley

Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions, page
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

Using Hierarchical Clustering and Summarisation Approaches
for Web Retrieval: Glasgow at the TREC 2002 Interactive Track, page
R. Osdin, I. Ounis, R.W. White, University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow at the Web Track of TREC 2002, page
V. Plachouras, I. Ounis, G. Amati, C.J. Van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow
G. Amati also affiliated to Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rom

Incremental Retrieval of Documents Relevant to a Topic, page
C. Lyon, B. Dickerson, J. Malcolm, University of Hertfordshire

UIC at TREC 2002: Web Track, page
S. Liu, C. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
W. Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

Question-Answering via Enhanced Understanding of Questions, page
D. Roth, C. Cumby, X. Li, P. Morie, R. Nagarajan, N. Rizzolo, K. Small,
W.-T. Yih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Novel Results and Some Answers
The University of Iowa TREC 11 Results, page
D. Eichmann, P. Srinivasan, University of Iowa

Question Answering Using the DLT System at TREC 2002, page
R.F.E. Sutcliffe, University of Limerick

UMass at TREC 2002: Cross Language and Novelty Tracks, page
L.S. Larkey, J. Allan, M.E. Connell, A. Bolivar, C. Wade, University of Massachusetts

CARROTT 11 and the TREC 11 Web Track, page
R.S. Cost, S. Kallurkar, H. Majithia, C. Nicholas, Y. Shi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

CLIR Experiments at Maryland for TREC 2002: Evidence Combination for Arabic-English Retrieval, page
K. Darwish, D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park

Video Indexing and Retrieval at UMD, page
C. Wolf, INSA de Lyon
D. Doermann, University of Maryland
M. Rautiainen, University of Oulu

Homepage Finding and Topic Distillation Using a Common Retrieval Strategy, page
V. Ngoc Anh, A. Moffat, University of Melbourne

The University of Michigan at TREC 2002: Question Answering and Novelty Tracks, page
H. Qi, J. Otterbacher, A. Winkel, D.R. Radev, University of Michigan

The QUANTUM Question Answering System at TREC 11, page
L. Plamondon, G. Lapalme, Universit� de Montr�al
L. Kosseim, Concordia University

Progress in General-Purpose IR Software, page
G.B. Newby, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Report on the TREC 11 Experiment: Arabic, Named Page and Topic Distillation Searches, page
J. Savoy, Y. Rasolofo, Universit� de Neuch�tel

Classifier Stacking and Voting for Text Filtering page
R. Mihalcea, University of North Texas

UB at TREC 11: Batch and Adaptive Filtering, page
M. Srikanth, X. Wu, R. Srihari, State University of New York at Buffalo

TREC 2002 Video Track Experiments at MediaTeam Oulu and VTT, page
M. Rautiainen, D. Vorobiev, K. Noponen, P. V�yrynen, M. Hosio, E. Matinmikko, T. Ojala, T. Sepp�nen, Media Team Oulu
J. Penttila, S.-M. M�kel�, J. Peltola, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland

PiQASso 2002, page
G. Attardi, A. Cisternino, F. Formica, M. Simi, A. Tommasi, University of Pisa

The University of Sheffield TREC 2002 Q&A System, page
M.A. Greenwood, I. Roberts, R. Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield

Natural Language Based Reformulation Resource and Wide Exploitation for Question Answering, page
U. Hermjakob, A. Echihabi, D. Marcu, University of Southern California

TREC 2002 Web Track "Automated Word Sense Disambiguation for Internet Information Retrieval", page
C.M. Stokoe, J. Tait, University of Sunderland

Augmenting and Limiting Search Queries, page
E.G. Toms, L. Freund, C. Li, University of Toronto

Statistical Selection of Exact Answers (MultiText Experiments for TREC 2002), page
C.L.A. Clarke, G.V. Cormack, G. Kemkes, M. Laszlo, T.R. Lynam,
E.L. Terra, P.L. Tilker, University of Waterloo

The YorkQA Prototype Question Answering System, page
M. De Boni, J.-L. Jara-Valencia, S. Manandhar, University of York

Web Document Retrieval Using Sentence-Query Similarity, page
E.-K. Park, S.-I. Moon, D.-Y. Ra, Yonsei University
M.-G. Jang, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

APPENDICES

TREC 2002 Results, page

  Common Evaluation Measures, page

Cross-Language Runs List, page


Cross-Language track results, page

Filtering-Adaptive Runs List, page

Filtering-Batch Runs List, page

Filtering-Routing Runs List, page

Filtering-Adaptive track results, page

Filtering-Batch track results, page

Filtering-Routing track results, page

Novelty Runs List, page

Novelty track results, page

Question Answering-List Runs List, page

Question Answering-Main Runs List, page

Question Answering-List track results, page

Question Answering-Main track results, page

Video Shot-Boundary Runs List, page

Video Feature Extraction Runs List, page

Video Search Runs List, page

Web Topic-Distillation Runs List, page

Web Named-Page Runs List, page

Web Distillation track results, page

Web Named-Page track results, page

TREC 2002 System Descriptions