TREC

Expanding Queries Using Multiple Resources

We describe our participation in the TREC 2006 Genomics track, in which our main focus was on query expansion. We hypothesized that applying query expansion techniques would help us both to identify and retrieve synonymous terms, and to cope with ambiguity. To this end, we developed several collection-specific as well…

Deploying Lucene on the Grid

We investigate if and how open source retrieval engines can be deployed in a grid environment. When comparing grids to conventional distributed IR, the lack of a-priori knowledge about available nodes is one of the most significant differences. On top of that, it is also unknown when a particular node…