Voorhees, E.
and Harman, D.
(1997),
Information Technology: The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference [TREC-5], Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Accessed April 25, 2026)
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Information Technology: The Fifth Text REtrieval Conference [TREC-5]
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Abstract
This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in the remainder of the proceedings. It defines the common retrieval tasks performed in TREC-5, the test collections used, and the evaluation methodology. The overview of the retrieval results summarizes the main themes learned from the experiments.Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 500-238
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500-238
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NIST Pubs
Keywords
information retrieval, search engines
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Created November 1, 1997, Updated October 16, 2008