The Robert Gordon University's HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004
David J. Harper, Gheorghe Mureşan, Bi‐Cheng Liu, Ivan Koychev, Dietrich Wettschereck, Nirmalie Wiratunga · 2004
This was the first time that RGU had participated in the HARD track, and indeed in TREC. We were interested in investigating the effect of exploiting the topic metadata to re-rank our initial baseline run, in a similar fashion to that of Rutgers in TREC 2003 [Belkin et al, 2003]. We used the Lemur toolkit