Overview of the seventh text retrieval conference (trec-7) [on-line]

The seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7) was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on November 9{11, 1998. The conference was co-sponsored by NIST and the Information Technology O ce of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of the TIPSTER Text Program. TREC-7 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research in text retrieval. For analyses of the results of previous workshops, see Sparck Jones [7], Tague-Sutcli e and Blustein [9], and Harman [2]. In addition, the overview paper in each of the previous TREC proceedings summarizes the results of that TREC. The TREC workshop series has the following goals: