Table 3

Ad hoc retrieval results. All runs, sorted by mean average precision.
Run
 Group (reference)
 Manual/Automatic
 Mean Average Precision
 Relevant at 10 documents
 Relevant at 100 documents
pllsgen4a2
 patolis.fujita [20]
 A
 0.4075
 6.04
 41.96
uwmtDg04tn
 u.waterloo.clarke [21]
 A
 0.3867
 6.24
 42.1
pllsgen4a1
 patolis.fujita [20]
 A
 0.3689
 5.7
 39.36
THUIRgen01
 tsinghua.ma [22]
 M
 0.3435
 5.82
 39.24
THUIRgen02
 tsinghua.ma [22]
 A
 0.3434
 5.94
 39.44
utaauto
 u.tampere [24]
 A
 0.3324
 5.02
 32.26
uwmtDg04n
 u.waterloo.clarke [21]
 A
 0.3318
 5.68
 36.84
PSE
 german.u.cairo [35]
 A
 0.3308
 5.86
 36.66
tnog3
 tno.kraaij [36]
 A
 0.3247
 5.6
 36.56
tnog2
 tno.kraaij [36]
 A
 0.3196
 5.62
 36.04
utamanu
 u.tampere [24]
 M
 0.3128
 6.52
 38.88
aliasiBase
 alias-i [23]
 A
 0.3094
 5.38
 34.58
ConversManu
 converspeech [37]
 M
 0.2931
 5.82
 37.18
RMITa
 rmit.scholer [38]
 A
 0.2796
 5.12
 31.4
aliasiTerms
 alias-i [23]
 A
 0.2656
 4.8
 30.3
akoike
 u.tokyo (none)
 M
 0.2427
 4.48
 31.3
OHSUNeeds
 ohsu.hersh [25]
 A
 0.2343
 3.84
 26.46
tgnSplit
 tarragon [39]
 A
 0.2319
 4.86
 29.26
UIowaGN1
 u.iowa [40]
 A
 0.2316
 4.76
 28.5
tq0
 nlm.umd.ul [28]
 A
 0.2277
 5.12
 30.1
OHSUAll
 ohsu.hersh [25]
 A
 0.2272
 4.32
 27.76
LHCUMDSE
 nlm.umd.ul [28]
 A
 0.2191
 3.9
 24.18
akoyama
 u.tokyo (none)
 M
 0.2155
 4.52
 25.62
PDTNsmp4
 u.padova [41]
 A
 0.2074
 4.56
 23.18
PD50501
 u.padova [41]
 A
 0.2059
 4.42
 25.18
RMITb
 rmit.scholer [38]
 A
 0.2059
 4.56
 27.26
UBgtNormJM1
 suny.buffalo [42]
 A
 0.2043
 4.34
 25.38
ConversAuto
 converspeech [37]
 A
 0.2013
 3.88
 22.8
york04g2
 york.u [43]
 M
 0.2011
 5.5
 25.8
tgnNecaux
 tarragon [39]
 A
 0.1951
 4.08
 23.58
lga1
 indiana.u.seki [26]
 A
 0.1833
 3.08
 22.86
york04g1
 york.u [43]
 A
 0.1794
 4.14
 26.96
lga2
 indiana.u.seki [26]
 A
 0.1754
 3.1
 20.22
rutgersGAH1
 rutgers.dayanik [44]
 A
 0.1702
 4.66
 26.76
wdvqlxa1
 indiana.u.yang [45]
 A
 0.1582
 4.2
 24.78
wdvqlx1
 indiana.u.yang [45]
 A
 0.1569
 4.26
 24.26
DCUmatn1
 dubblincity.u [46]
 M
 0.1388
 3.28
 17.84
BioTextAdHoc
 u.cberkeley.hearst [27]
 A
 0.1384
 3.76
 23.76
shefauto2
 u.sheffield.gaizauskas [47]
 A
 0.1304
 3.66
 18.5
rutgersGAH2
 rutgers.dayanik [44]
 A
 0.1303
 3.42
 19.48
shefauto1
 u.sheffield.gaizauskas [47]
 A
 0.1294
 3.54
 18.92
run1
 utwente (none)
 M
 0.1176
 1.5
 10.5
MeijiHilG
 meiji.u [48]
 A
 0.0924
 2.1
 15.24
DCUma
 dubblincity.u [46]
 M
 0.0895
 2.4
 15.46
csusm
 u.sanmarcos [49]
 M
 0.0123
 0.44
 1.6
edinauto2
 u.edinburgh.sinclair [50]
 A
 0.0017
 0.46
 1.6
edinauto5
 u.edinburgh.sinclair [50]
 A
 0.0012
 0.36
 1.3
Mean

0.2074
 4.48
 26.46

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