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On the Evaluation of Machine-Generated Reports

Author(s)
James Mayfield, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, Paul McNamee, Douglas Oard, Luca Soldaini, Ian Soboroff, Orion Weller, Efsun Kayi, Kate Sanders, Marc Mason, Noah Hibbler
Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled new ways to satisfy information needs. Although great strides have been made in applying them to settings like

Overview of TREC 2023

Author(s)
Ian Soboroff
TREC 2023 is the thirty-second edition of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). The main goal of TREC is to create the evaluation infrastructure required for

Overview of the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task

Author(s)
Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Tetsuya Sakai, Zhumin Chu, Hiromi Arai, Ian Soboroff, Nicola Ferro, Maria Maistro
This paper provides an overview of the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task. FairWeb-1 is an English web search task which seeks more than an ad-hoc web search task. Our