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The Development and Evolution of TREC and DUC

Published

Author(s)

Donna K. Harman

Abstract

The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) has been running for 11 years now, with 93 participants in the last round of evaluation. This paper chronicles the changes in TREC over that time, emphasizing the evolution in the tasks that were evaluated rather than discussing the results of the specific evaluations. The development of the new Document Understanding Conference (DUC) is also discussed, including the evaluation issues that have surfaced during its first two years.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval
Conference Dates
September 1, 2001
Conference Title
Automatic Text Summarization and Ques
tion Answering

Keywords

DUC, TREC

Citation

Harman, D. (2002), The Development and Evolution of TREC and DUC, Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50785 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created October 1, 2002, Updated February 17, 2017