Overview - Robust 2004

Proceedings | Data | Results | Runs | Participants

The goal of the Robust track is to improve the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. In addition, the track brings back a classic, ad hoc retrieval task in TREC that provides a natural home for new participants. An ad hoc task in TREC investigates the performance of systems that search a static set of documents using previously-unseen topics. For each topic, participants create a query and submit a ranking of the top 1000 documents for that topic.

Track coordinator(s):

• E.M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Track Web Page: https://trec.nist.gov/data/robust/04.guidelines.html

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