The Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs)

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.

[1]  Kui-Lam Kwok,et al.  TREC-5 English and Chinese Retrieval Experiments using PIRCS , 1996, TREC.

[2]  Mohand Boughanem,et al.  Mercure at TREC6 , 1997, TREC.

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[4]  Karen Spärck Jones,et al.  NLP Track at TREC-5 , 1996, TREC.

[5]  Peter Bailey,et al.  ANU/ACSys TREC-5 Experiments , 1996, TREC.

[6]  James Allan,et al.  Recent Experiments with INQUERY , 1995, TREC.

[7]  Donna K. Harman,et al.  Overview of the Fourth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-4) , 1995, TREC.

[8]  Chris Buckley,et al.  Using Query Zoning and Correlation Within SMART: TREC 5 , 1996, TREC.

[9]  David Hawking,et al.  Overview of TREC-7 Very Large Collection Track , 1997, TREC.

[10]  Chris Buckley,et al.  TREC 6 High-Precision Track , 1997, TREC.

[11]  James Allan,et al.  Automatic Query Expansion Using SMART: TREC 3 , 1994, TREC.

[12]  Hinrich Schütze,et al.  Xerox TREC-5 Site Report: Routing, Filtering, NLP, and Spanish Tracks , 1996, TREC.

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[17]  Ellen M. Voorhees,et al.  Report on the TREC-5 Confusion Track , 1996, TREC.

[18]  Carol Peters,et al.  Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Track Overview , 1997, TREC.

[19]  Charles L. A. Clarke,et al.  Interactive Substring Retrieval (MultiText Experiments for TREC-5) , 1996, TREC.

[20]  Natasa Milic-Frayling,et al.  CLARIT Compound Queries and Constraint-Controlled Feedback in TREC-5 Ad-Hoc Experiments , 1996, TREC.

[21]  Peter Schäuble,et al.  ETH TREC-6: Routing, Chinese, Cross-Language and Spoken Document Retrieval , 1997, TREC.

[22]  James Allan,et al.  Aspect windows, 3-D visualizations, and indirect comparisons of information retrieval systems , 1998, SIGIR '98.

[23]  Jianhua Dong,et al.  Ad Hoc Experiments Using EUREKA , 1996, TREC.

[24]  Fredric C. Gey,et al.  Term importance, Boolean conjunct training, negative terms, and foreign language retrieval: probabilistic algorithms at TREC-5 , 1996, TREC.

[25]  Ross Wilkinson,et al.  MDS TREC6 Report , 1997, TREC.

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[27]  Larry Fitzpatrick,et al.  Automatic feedback using past queries: social searching? , 1997, SIGIR '97.

[28]  Donna K. Harman,et al.  Overview of the Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2) , 1994, HLT.

[29]  Kui-Lam Kwok,et al.  A new method of weighting query terms for ad-hoc retrieval , 1996, SIGIR '96.

[30]  David D. Lewis,et al.  The TREC-5 Filtering Track , 1996, TREC.

[31]  Karen Spärck Jones.  Reflections on TREC , 1995, Inf. Process. Manag..

[32]  Stephen E. Robertson,et al.  Okapi at TREC-3 , 1994, TREC.

[33]  Amit Singhal,et al.  Pivoted document length normalization , 1996, SIGIR 1996.

[34]  Eric W. Brown,et al.  The GURU System in TREC-6 , 1997, TREC.

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[36]  James Allan,et al.  INQUERY Does Battle With TREC-6 , 1997, TREC.

[37]  David A. Hull.  The TREC-6 Filtering Track: Description and Analysis , 1997, TREC.

[38]  Charles L. A. Clarke,et al.  Passage-Based Refinement (MultiText Experiements for TREC-6) , 1997, TREC.

[39]  Stephen E. Robertson,et al.  Okapi at TREC-6 Automatic ad hoc, VLC, routing, filtering and QSDR , 1997, TREC.

[40]  Kui-Lam Kwok,et al.  TREC-2 Document Retrieval Experiments using PIRCS , 1993, TREC.

[41]  Eric W. Brown,et al.  Fast evaluation of structured queries for information retrieval , 1995, SIGIR '95.

[42]  Ross Wilkinson,et al.  Chinese Document Retrieval at TREC-6 , 1997, TREC.

[43]  Ellen M. Voorhees.  The TREC-5 Database Merging Track , 1996, TREC.

[44]  Alan F. Smeaton,et al.  Spanish and Chinese Document Retrieval in TREC-5 , 1996, TREC.

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[46]  Claire Cardie,et al.  Using clustering and SuperConcepts within SMART: TREC 6 , 1997, Inf. Process. Manag..

[47]  Paul Over,et al.  TREC-7 Interactive Track Report , 1998, TREC.

[48]  Amit Singhal.  AT&T at TREC-6 , 1997, TREC.