Overview - Legal 2008

Proceedings | Data | Results | Runs | Participants

TREC 2008 was the third 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):

• D. W. Oard, University of Maryland, College Park
• B. Hedin, H5
• S. Tomlinson, Open Text Corporation
• J. R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration

Tasks:

• adhoc: Adhoc
• feedback: Relevance Feedback
• interactive: Interactive

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

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