The TREC-2002 Filtering Track Report

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April 1, 2003

Author(s)

S E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff

Abstract

The TREC¿11 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents in an incoming stream. It consists of three major subtasks; adaptive filtering, batch filtering, and routing. In adaptive filtering, the system begins with only a topic statement and a small number of positive examples, and must learn a better profile from on-line feedback. Batch filtering and routing are more traditional machine learning tasks where the system begins with a large sample of evaluated training documents. This report describes the track, presents some evaluation results, and provides a general commentary on lesions learned form this year¿s track.

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adaptive filtering, batch filtering, evaluation, routing, TREC

Citation

Robertson, S. and Soboroff, I. (2003), The TREC-2002 Filtering Track Report, OTHER, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50769 (Accessed October 11, 2025)