Overview - Microblog 2012

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The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation methodologies for information seeking behaviours in microblogging environments such as Twitter. It was first introduced in 2011, addressing a real-time adhoc search task, whereby the user wishes to see the most recent relevant information to the query. In 2012, the realtime adhoc task was changed slightly, and a new filtering task was added. The filtering task models a standing query where the user wishes to see relevant tweets as they are posted.

Track coordinator(s):

• Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow
• Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland

Tasks:

• adhoc: Real-time Adhoc Task
• filtering: Filtering Task

Track Web Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20120604072950/http://sites.google.com/site/microblogtrack/

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