The University of Iowa Team, participated in the blog track and the chemistry track of TREC-2009. This is our first year participating in the blog track as well as the chemistry track.
This is the second year that our research group has participated in the TREC Legal Track. Our ad hoc retrieval system has been modified to extract the additional Boolean query fields added to the 2008 topics, and to privilege documents found by the Boolean reference run when conducting our queries. We have also submitted runs that fuse the results from existing runs. For the relevance feedback task, our system uses ...