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Information technology /Data and informatics

Information retrieval

News and Updates

Blog Posts

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Seek and You Will (Probably) Find: Helping Mine COVID-19 Research Data

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How Can NIST Help: Collaborating at a Distance to Defeat COVID-19

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Information Retrieval: How NIST Helps You Find That Video Online

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Projects and Programs

AI for Building Systems Innovation (AIBSI) Program

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy advances in measurement science that will improve building operations to ensure cyber-secure facilities, system reliability, occupant comfort/safety and lower operating costs through AI-enabled building systems. What is the problem? Buildings are complex systems of...

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)

Ongoing
Its purpose was to support research within the information retrieval community by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies. In particular, the TREC workshop series has the following goals: to encourage research in information retrieval based...

Publications

The 34th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2025)

Author(s)
Ian Soboroff, George Awad
TREC 2025 is the thirty-fourth edition of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). The main goal of TREC is to create the evaluation infrastructure required for...

Don't Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments

Author(s)
Ian Soboroff
Making the relevance judgments for a TREC-style test collection can be complex and expensive. A typical TREC track usually involves a team of six contractors...

Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024

Author(s)
Leif Azzopardi, Charles Clarke, Paul Kantor, Bhaskar Mitra, Johanne Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Ian Soboroff
The First Search Futures Workshop, in conjunction with the Fourty-sixth European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, looked into the future of...

Awards

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Ellen Voorhees receives Gerald Salton Award

Congratulations to Ellen Voorhees on receiving the Gerard Salton Award at the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). The Gerard Salton Award is presented every three years to an individual who has made “...
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