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Overview of the TREC 2011 Microblog Track

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Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, Jimmy Lin

Abstract

The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation methodologies for information seeking behaviors in microblogging environments such as Twitter. It was first introduced in 2011, addressing a real-time adhoc search task, whereby the user wishes to see the most recent but relevant information to the query. In particular, systems should respond to a query by providing a list of relevant tweets ordered from newest to oldest, starting from the time the query was issued.
Citation
OTHER - 500-296
Report Number
500-296

Keywords

information retrieval, TREC, microblogs

Citation

Soboroff, I. , Ounis, I. , Macdonald, C. and Lin, J. (2013), Overview of the TREC 2011 Microblog Track, Other, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=914332 (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created August 15, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017
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