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Overview of the TREC 2002 Novelty Track

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Donna K. Harman

Abstract

The novelty track was a new track in TREC-11. The basic task was as follows: given a TREC topic and an ordered list of relevant documents (ordered by relevance ranking), find the relevant and novel sentences that should be returned to the user from this set. There were 13 groups that participated in this new task.
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duplicate detection, information retrieval, passage retrieval, TREC

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Harman, D. (2003), Overview of the TREC 2002 Novelty Track, Other, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50760 (Accessed October 15, 2025)

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Created April 1, 2003, Updated November 8, 2016
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