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Ian Soboroff (Fed)

Group Leader

Dr. Ian Soboroff is a computer scientist and leader of the Retrieval Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Retrieval Group organizes the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), and the TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID). These are all large, community-based research workshops that drive the state-of-the-art in information retrieval, video search, web search, information extraction, text summarization and other areas of information access. He has co-authored many publications in information retrieval evaluation, test collection building, text filtering, collaborative filtering, and intelligent software agents. His current research interests include building test collections for social media environments and nontraditional retrieval tasks.

Publications

TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain Track Overview

Author(s)
Ian Soboroff, Hui Yang, John Frank
Search tasks for professional searchers, such as law enforcement agencies, police officers, and patent examiners, are often more complex than open domain Web

Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024

Author(s)
Leif Azzopardi, Charles Clarke, Paul Kantor, Bhaskar Mitra, Johanne Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Ian Soboroff
The First Search Futures Workshop, in conjunction with the Fourty-sixth European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, looked into the future of

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 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
Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022