Overview of the TREC-2014 Microblog Track

Abstract

This year represents the fourth iteration of the TREC Microblog track, which has been running since 2011. The track continued using the evaluation as a service model [8, 7], in which participants had access to the document collection only through an API. In addition to the temporally-anchored ad hoc retrieval task, which has been running since the inception of the track, we introduced a new task called tweet timeline generation (TTG), where the goal is to produce concise summaries about a particular topic for human consumption. Although this overview covers both tasks, more emphasis is placed on the tweet timeline generation task, which necessitated the development of a new evaluation methodology. We refer the reader to previous track overview papers [8, 12, 9] for details on the setup of the ad hoc task.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA624913

Entities

People

  • Garrick Sherman
  • Jimmy Lin
  • Miles Efron
  • Yulu Wang

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Computer Science
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Histograms
  • Illinois
  • Information Science
  • Judgment
  • Lessons Learned
  • Maryland
  • Online Communications
  • Pilot Studies
  • Precision
  • Social Media
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Information Retrieval
  • Systems Analysis and Design