Information retrieval

News and Updates

Working With Workspace Words: NIST Helps Compose Technical Language Processing Tutorial at PHM 23

December 1, 2023

NIST helped to foster awareness, debate, and education at the Technical Language Processing (TLP) Tutorial of the 15 th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and

Two first responders stand at the open back of an emergency vehicle, looking at a computer screen, with firetrucks in the background.

Spotlight: Gathering Intel From Social Media for Emergency Response

June 30, 2022

When someone needs help, fire departments and ambulance crews need to know what the problem is and where to go ASAP. One answer is to use artificial

Illustration shows magnifying glass over networked icons for digital materials like email, social media, and others.

NIST and OSTP Launch Effort to Improve Search Engines for COVID-19 Research

April 15, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and

Projects and Programs

A digital object is composed of Data, Metadata, Protocols & Operations, and Persistent Identifiers.

Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

Ongoing

With increasing use of data-driven methodologies, concerns around data discovery, data access, and data interoperability have come to the forefront. Communities

Text Analysis Conference

Ongoing

There has been a growing recognition of the importance of community-wide evaluations for research in information technologies. The Text Analysis Conference is a

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)

Ongoing

The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and U.S. Department of Defense, was started in

Content-Based Access to Unstructured Information

Ongoing

This project uses community evaluations to build the infrastructure required to evaluate system effectiveness on information access tasks. In particular, the

Publications

Overview of the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task

February 13, 2024

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

The BETTER Cross-Language Information Retrieval Datasets

July 27, 2023

Author(s)

Ian Soboroff

The IARPA BETTER (Better Extraction from Text Through Enhanced Retrieval) program held three evaluations of information retrieval (IR) and information

Extracting Mathematical Concepts from Text

October 12, 2022

Author(s)

Jacob Collard, Valeria de Paiva, Brendan Fong, Eswaran Subrahmanian

We investigate some different systems for extracting mathematical entities from texts in the mathematical field of category theory, as a first step for

Discovery of digital forensic dataset characteristics with CASE-Corpora

July 11, 2022

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson

The digital forensics community has generated training and reference data over the course of decades. However, significant challenges persist today in the usage

Awards

2022 Ron Brown Excellence Award Ellen Voorhees

Ellen Voorhees Receives Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Glasgow

Congratulations to Ellen Voorhees (IAD) for receiving an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Glasgow in recognition of

Ellen Voorhees Wins Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award

Dr. Ellen M. Voorhees was announced as the recipient of the Ron Brown Excellence Award in Innovation as part of the 73rd Annual Department