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PUBLICATIONS

Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)

Published

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

Abstract

This article summarizes the history, results, and impact of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), a workshop series designed to support the information retrieval community by building the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of retrieval technology.
Citation
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

Keywords

conferences, evaluation, information retrieval, test collections, TREC
Data and informatics
Created December 9, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017