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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

Publications

Human Preferences as dueling Bandits

Author(s)
Xinyi Yan, Chengxi Luo, Charles Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ellen M. Voorhees, Pablo Castells
The dramatic improvements in core information retrieval tasks engendered by neural rankers create a need for novel evaluation methods. If every ranker returns

Too many Relevants: Whither Cranfield Test Collections?

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin
This paper presents the lessons regarding the construction and use of large Cranfield-style test collections learned from the TREC 2021 Deep Learning track. The

Overview of TREC 2021

Author(s)
Ian Soboroff
TREC 2021 is the thirtieth edition of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). The main goal of TREC is to create the evaluation infrastructure required for large

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