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Overview of the TREC-2012 Microblog Track

June 2, 2014
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Jimmy Lin, Craig Macdonald
The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation meth- odologies for information seeking behaviours in microblogging en- vironments such as Twitter. It was first introduced in 2011, address- ing a real-time adhoc search task, whereby the user

Building Better Search Engines by Measuring Search Quality

March 3, 2014
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Paul D. Over, Ian Soboroff
Search engines help users locate particular information within large stores of content developed for human consumption. For example, users expect web search engines to direct searchers to web sites based on the content of the site rather than the site

Overview of the TREC 2011 Microblog Track

August 15, 2013
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, Jimmy Lin
The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation methodologies for information seeking behaviors in microblogging environments such as Twitter. It was first introduced in 2011, addressing a real-time adhoc search task, whereby the user wishes to

Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets

December 10, 2012
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Dean P. McCullough, Jimmy Lin, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Richard McCreadie
Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) to support the academic study of Twitter as a real-time information source

Overview of the TREC-2010 Blog Track

August 15, 2012
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
The Blog track aims to investigate the information seeking behavior in the blogosphere. The track was initiated in 2006, and has used an incremental approach in tackling several search tasks by their level of difficulty. In TREC 2010, the track has

Information Retrieval on the Blogosphere

July 30, 2012
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Rodrygo Santos, Craig Macdonald, Richard McCreadie, Iadh Ounis
Blogs have recently emerged as a new open, rapidly evolving and reac- tive publishing medium on the Web. Rather than managed by a central entity, the content on the blogosphere—the collection of all blogs on the Web—is produced by millions of independent

Overview of the TREC 2011 Web Track

November 15, 2011
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Nick Craswell, Charles L. Clarke, Gordon Cormack
The TREC Web Track explores and evaluates Web retrieval technology over large collections of Web data. In its current incarnation, the Web Track has been active for two years. For TREC 2010, the track includes three tasks: 1) an adhoc retrieval task, 2) a

A Comparative Analysis of Cascade Measures for Novelty and Diversity

February 10, 2011
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Charles L. Clarke, Nick Craswell, Azin Ashkan
Traditional editorial effectiveness measures, such as nDCG, remain standard for Web search evaluation. Unfortunately, these traditional measures can inappropriately reward re- dundant information and can fail to reflect the broad range of user needs that

The Effect of Assessor Errors on IR System Evaluation

July 19, 2010
Author(s)
Ben Carterette, Ian Soboroff
Recent efforts in test collection building have focused on scaling back the number of necessary relevance judgments and then scaling up the number of search topics. Since the largest source of variation in a Cranfield-style experiment comes from the topics

Test Collection Diagnosis and Treatment

June 15, 2010
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff
Test collections are a mainstay of information retrieval research. Since the 1990s, large reusable test collections have been developed in the context of community evaluations such as TREC, NTCIR, CLEF, and INEX. Recently, advances in pooling practice as

Blog Track Research at TREC

June 1, 2010
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo Santos, Iadh Ounis
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TREC 2006, the Blog track has led to much research in this growing field, and

Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track

May 3, 2010
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
In TREC 2009, the Blog track has been markedly revamped with the use of a new and larger sample of the blogosphere, cal led Blogs08, which has a 13-month timespan covering a period ranging from 14th January 2008 to 10th February 2009, and the introdu c-

Overview of the TREC 2008 Blog Track

January 12, 2010
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
The Blog track explores the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. The track was introduced in 2006 [1], with a main pilot search task, namely the opinion-finding task. In TREC 2007 [2], the track investigated two main tasks inspired by the