Overview of the TREC 2014 Federated Web Search Track

Abstract

The TREC Federated Web Search track facilitates research on federated web search, by providing a large realistic data collection sampled from a multitude of online search engines. The FedWeb 2013 Resource Selection and Results Merging tasks are again included in FedWeb 2014, and we additionally introduced the task of vertical selection. Other new aspects are the required link between the Resource Selection and Results Merging tasks, and the importance of diversity in the merged results. After an overview of the new data collection and relevance judgments, the individual participants results for the tasks are introduced, analyzed, and compared.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA618761

Entities

People

  • Djoerd Hiemstra
  • Dolf Trieschnigg
  • Dong Nguyen
  • Ke Zhou
  • Thomas Demeester

Organizations

  • Ghent University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Cold War
  • Data Analysis
  • Frequency
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Judgment
  • Language
  • Machine Learning
  • Online Systems
  • Precision
  • Skin Cancer
  • Social Media
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Information Retrieval
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.