Mongrel is a collaborative
research project investigating user and topic based language models for effective
information retrieval. Participating institutions are University Massachusetts, Amherst,
Department of Computer Science and Rutgers University, School of Communication,
Information & Library Studies. The project is funded by a three year grant from the
National Science Foundation.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9911942. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the
author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).