The Text Retrieval Conferences (TRECs)

Abstract

There have been four Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs); TREC-1 in November 1992, TREC-2 in August 1993, TREC-3 in November 1994 and TREC-4 in November 1995. The number of participating systems has grown from 25 in TREC-1 to 36 in TREC-4, including most of the major text retrieval software companies and most of the universities doing research in text retrieval (see table for some of the participants). The diversity of the participating groups has ensured that TREC represents many different approaches to text retrieval, while the emphasis on individual experiments evaluated in a common setting has proven to be a major strength of TREC.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA631833

Entities

People

  • Donna Harman

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Application Software
  • Computers
  • Data Fusion
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Operating Systems
  • Semantic Models
  • Standards

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