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Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track

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Author(s)

D Hawking, Ellen M. Voorhees, Nick Craswell, Peter Bailey

Abstract

The TREC-8 Web Track defined ad hoc retrieval tasks over a 100 gigabyte collection of spidered Web documents (Large Web Task) and a selected 2 gigabyte subset of those documents (Small Web Task). Here, the guidelines and resources for both tasks are described and results presented and analyzed.
Citation
Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track

Keywords

search engines, text retrieval, TREC, world wide web

Citation

Hawking, D. , Voorhees, E. , Craswell, N. and Bailey, P. (2000), Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track, Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=151494 (Accessed October 3, 2024)

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Created October 31, 2000, Updated October 12, 2021