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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

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

What Makes a Good Podcast Summary?

Author(s)
Rezvaneh Rezapour, Sravana Reddy, Rosie Jones, Ian Soboroff
Abstractive summarization of podcasts is motivated by the growing popularity of podcasts and the needs of their listeners. Podcasting is a markedly different

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
Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022