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IT--The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference, TREC 2003
Published
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman
Abstract
This chapter provides an executive summary of the TREC workshop series and the remainder of thevolume. It explains the motivation for TREC and highlights TREC's accomplishments in improving retrievaleffectiveness and fostering technology transfer.
Citation
IT--The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference, TREC 2003
Publisher Info
TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005,
Voorhees, E.
and Harman, D.
(2004),
IT--The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference, TREC 2003, TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005, , [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=151595
(Accessed October 18, 2025)