ICTNET at TREC 2019 News Track

This paper describes our work in the background linking task and entity ranking task in TREC 2018 News Track. We explore four methods in background linking task and two methods in entity ranking task. All of our methods largely rely on off-the-shell open-source components(e.g., Solr for indexing the documents), and follow the basic thoughts— BM25 and relevance feedback. These methods differ in how they analyze the given input to obtain a query and to what extent the returned results are re-ranked taking meta data of the document(e.g., publish dates) into account.