Document Retrieval Using The MPS Information Server (A Report on the TREC-6 Experiment)

Abstract

This paper summarizes the results of the experiments conducted by FS Consulting, Inc. as part of the Six Text Retrieval Experiment Conference (TREC-6). We participated in Category C and ran the ad-hoc experiments, producingthree sets of official results (fsclt6, fsclt6r and fsclt6t), only one of which was judged (fsclt6). We also produced two sets of unofficial results as part of a database merging experiment that we ran (fsclt6m2 and fsclt6m5). Our long-term research interest is in building information retrieval systems that help users find information to solve real-world problems. Our TREC-6 participation centered on two goals: to see if automatic query reformulatio