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The TREC Test Collections

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Author(s)

Donna K. Harman

Abstract

The creation of a set of large, unbiased test collections has been critical to the success of TREC. This chapteris the documentation for the TREC collections. It reviews the motivation for building the collections, describes the methods used to create them, and provides analysis of the collection components
Citation
The TREC Test Collections
Publisher Info
TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005,

Keywords

information retrieval, test collections, TREC

Citation

Harman, D. (2005), The TREC Test Collections, TREC Chapter to be published in: TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, 2005, (Accessed December 26, 2024)

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Created April 1, 2005, Updated February 17, 2017