… The document collection used in the task was the same as the TREC-8 ad hoc collection,
namely the set of documents on TREC disks 4 and 5 minus the Congressional Record …

… I gratefully acknowledge the tremendous work of the TREC program committee and the
track coordinators. … MITRE'S Qanda at TREC 15 JD Burger, The MITRE Corporation …

… On examples where the gold Hop1 passage is an email, 15% of the time, no emails appear
in the top-k Hop1 results; meanwhile, this only occurs 4% of the time when Hop1 is Wikipedia…

… with the user-centric evaluation already used in the TREC-8 and TREC-9 Q/A tracks, as we
… noticed initially in the TREC-8, which became more significant in the TREC-9, we propose …

… We thank The MITRE Corporation for their administrative support of the workshop. We thank
… The workshop will draw upon research in the TREC Q&A track, the AQUAINT program, and …

… John Burger is a lead scientist at the MITRE Corporation. He has been involved in MITRE’s …
answer judgments from some 10 to 15 systems for the 200 TREC questions used in the 1999 …

… 0 Last year, the web became more than 50% non-English 0 Only 15% of Europe's half a …
Who are the top 5 "data mining" experts at MITRE (List them in rank order, most expert first. …

… However, the TREC systems must first find a document or … RC corpora available from the
MITRE Corporation for research … The large increase in accuracy offered by union (about 15% …

… for the TREC-11 evaluation. Last but not least, the MITRE corporation’s system Qanda …
in the <AN> tags and are mainly composed of proper nouns (15,53%) and nouns (11,27%). …

… Results from the previous two TRECs can be found at trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec8/index.track.…
of the first Q&A track in TREC8 can be found at citeseer.nj.nec.com/346894.html and at trec.nist.…