Overview of the TREC 2008 Legal Track

Abstract

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). This paper describes the design of the three tasks and presents the official results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA512711

Entities

People

  • Bruce Hedin
  • Douglas W. Oard
  • Jason R. Baron
  • Stephen Tomlinson

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Agreements
  • Commerce
  • Corporations
  • Dictionaries
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Law
  • Negotiations
  • Probability
  • Sampling
  • Standards
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Teamwork
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Information Retrieval
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics