Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 1994¶
Adhoc¶
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The ad hoc task investigates the performance of systems that search a static set of documents using new topics. This task is similar to how a researcher might use a library — the collection is known but the questions likely to be asked are not known.
Track coordinator(s):
- Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Routing¶
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In TREC the routing task is represented by using known topics and known relevant documents for those topics, but new data for testing. The participants are given a set of known (or training) topics, along with a set of documents, including known relevant documents for those topics. The topics consist of natural language text describing a user's information need. The topics are used to create a set of queries (the actual input to the retrieval system) which are then used against the training documents.
Track coordinator(s):
- Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)