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The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9)

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Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9) held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 13-16, 2000. TREC-9 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research in text retrieval. This year's conference consisted fo different seven tasks, including a task on question answering and a tesk on web searching. The paper describes the basics of how TREC is orgainized, summarizes the main results of each of the TREC-9 tasks, and reports on initial plans for TREC 2001.
Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 500-249
Report Number
500-249
NIST Pub Series
Special Publication (NIST SP)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.500-249

Keywords

information retrieval, search engines, text retrieval, TREC

Citation

Voorhees, E. and Harman, D. (2001), The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9), Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.500-249 (Accessed April 23, 2024)

Created October 1, 2001, Updated November 10, 2018