Overview - Legal 2007

Proceedings | Data | Results | Runs | Participants

TREC 2007 was the second year of the Legal Track, which focuses on evaluation of search technology for discovery of electronically stored information in litigation and regulatory settings. The track included three tasks: Ad Hoc (i.e., single-pass automatic) search, Relevance Feedback (two-pass search in a controlled setting with some relevant and nonrelevant documents manually marked after the first pass) and Interactive (in which real users could iteratively refine their queries and/or engage in multi-pass relevance feedback).

Track coordinator(s):

• S. Tomlinson, Open Text Corporation
• D. W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park
• J. R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration
• P. Thompson, Dartmouth College

Tasks:

• main: Adhoc Task
• interactive: Interactive and Relevance Feedback

Track Web Page: http://trec-legal.umiacs.umd.edu/

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