Modeling and mining term association for improving biomedical information retrieval performance

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 10 Sample of retrieval passage list

Topic #	Document ID	Rank	Weight	Offset	Length	Label
200	12595615	1	48.63	28426	295	yorkuga1
200	12595615	2	46.25	3839	339	yorkuga1
200	15814577	3	43.338	5656	125	yorkuga1
...	...	...	...	...	...	...

The baseline format is presented: (1) the top 1000 passages are shown for each topic; (2) each document contains multiple passages such that some retrieved passages share the same document ID; (3) the rank is given by the weight; (3) the weights are given by the IR system; (4) the offset is the starting point of the passage, and the length is the passage length which removes the stopping words; (5) the label is to identify the specific run.

ISSN: 1471-2105