The ConQuest System
Paul E. Nelson · Text REtrieval Conference · 1993
Conquest software has a commercially available text search and retreival system called ConQuest (for Concept Quest). ConQuest is primarily an advanced statistical based search system, with processing enhancements drawn from the field of Naturel Language Processing (NLP). ConQuest participed in Category A of Trec. In this category, we constructed queries and submitted results for two different ranking functions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how we prepared for TREC-2: how queries were performed, and interpretation of the results. Then the test performed after TREC-2 are covered, and how these tests clearly identify the areas where ConQuest could most effectively be improved