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TREC: Continuing Information Retrieval's Tradition of Experimentation

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Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

Abstract

This article provides a high-level overview of the history, results and impact of NIST's Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). The article will appear in a special issue of the Communications of the ACM devoted to experimentation in computer science.
Citation
Communications of the Acm

Keywords

information retrieval evaluation, information/knowledge management, Text REtrieval Conference

Citation

Voorhees, E. (2007), TREC: Continuing Information Retrieval's Tradition of Experimentation, Communications of the Acm, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51229 (Accessed November 14, 2024)

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Created November 26, 2007, Updated February 17, 2017