Rutgers' HARD Track Experiences at TREC 2004
Nicholas J. Belkin, I. Chaleva, Michael Cole, Y.-L. Li, Lu Liu, Ying‐Hsang Liu, Gheorghe Mureşan, Catherine L. Smith, Ying Sun, Xiaojun Yuan, Xiaomin Zhang · 2004
The goal of our work in the HARD track was to test techniques for using knowledge about various aspects of the information seeker’s context to improve IR system performance. We were particularly concerned with such knowledge which could be gained through implicit sources of evidence, rather than explicit questioning of the information seeker. We therefore did not submit any clarification form 1, preferring to rely on the categories of supplied metadata concerning the user which we believed