Evaluation Results-
Overall Observations form Run1 to Run 5
nRun1 and Run2 indicates that the use of WordNet glosses is positive
nRun3, which adds in time-dependent similarity measure, obtain a MAP of 0.113 which is an improvement of 8.6%
nRun4 demonstrates the effectiveness of confidence-based weighting
nThe bulk of improvement come from general queries as they depend largely on the use of HLFs as evidence of relevance
nPerson-oriented queries on the other hand have less significant improvement as ASR and video OCR still contribute most to the overall score