DR-LINK in TIPSTER III

  • Authors:
  • Elizabeth D. Liddy;Ted Diamond;Mary Mckenna

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Natural Language Processing, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA 13210. liddy@syr.edu;School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA 13210. diamond@singingfish.com;MNIS/TextWise Labs, 1100 Chase Square, Rochester, NY 14604, New York, USA. mary_e_mckenna@hotmail.com

  • Venue:
  • Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A Natural Language Processing based Information Retrieval System that was one of the original systems developed in Phase I of TIPSTER, was the basis of research in TIPSTER III the goal of which was to add two extended capabilities to the core system. Following a description of the multiple levels of linguistic processing that were developed for the original DR-LINK System, details are provided on research into query-specific data fusion and query-specific cross-document summarization. Experimental results show that there is potential for improving retrieval through query-specific fusion and that analysts found the Detailed Multiple Document Summary to be extremely useful for almost every query, while the Thumbnail sketch was useful in approximately 50% of the queries.