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PUBLICATIONS

The TREC Ad Hoc Experiments

Published

Author(s)

Donna K. Harman

Abstract

Ad hoc retrieval is the prototypical search engine task: searching a static set of documents with a previouslyunseen query. The ad hoc task was one of the first two tasks tackled in TREC and was run for eight years, representing hundreds of experiments. The wide range of experiments provide a rich store of ideas, many of which have become part of the accepted best practices for information retrieval.
Citation
The TREC Ad Hoc Experiments
Publisher Info
TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005,
Pub Type
Books

Keywords

information retrieval, TREC

Citation

Harman, D. (2005), The TREC Ad Hoc Experiments, TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005, (Accessed September 30, 2023)

Created April 1, 2005, Updated February 17, 2017