Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Summary
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 1992 as part of the TIPSTER Text program.
Description
Its purpose was to support research within the information retrieval community by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies. In particular, the TREC workshop series has the following goals:
- to encourage research in information retrieval based on large test collections;
- to increase communication among industry, academia, and government by creating an open forum for the exchange of research ideas;
- to speed the transfer of technology from research labs into commercial products by demonstrating substantial improvements in retrieval methodologies on real-world problems; and
to increase the availability of appropriate evaluation techniques for use by industry and academia, including development of new evaluation techniques more applicable to current systems.
Additional Resources :
Publications - TREC facilitates research by creating datasets, methodologies, forums, and the infrastructure needed to do research on large text datasets. Here are the complete proceedings of more than 30 years of TREC.
TRECVID - In 2001 and 2002 the TREC series sponsored a video "track" devoted to research in automatic segmentation, indexing, and content-based retrieval of digital video. Beginning in 2003, this track became an independent evaluation (TRECVID) with a workshop taking place just before TREC.
TAC - Organized by the Retrieval Group of the Information Access Division (IAD) in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Initiated in 2008, TAC grew out of NIST's Document Understanding Conference (DUC) for text summarization, and the Question Answering Track of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). TAC is sponsored by NIST and other U.S. government agencies and is overseen by an Advisory Committee consisting of representatives from government, industry, and academia.
General Information
Email: trec [at] nist.gov (trec[at]nist[dot]gov)