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Question answering in TREC

Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM'01, 2001
Traditional text retrieval systems return a ranked list of documents in response to a user's request. While a ranked list of documents can be an appropriate response for the user, frequently it is not. Usually it would be better for the system to provide the answer itself instead of requiring the user to search for the answer in a set of documents. The
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Reflections on TREC

1994
This paper discusses the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC) programme as a major enterprise in information retrieval research. It reviews its structure as an evaluation exercise, characterises the methods of indexing and retrieval being tested within it in terms of the approaches to system performance factors these represent; analyses the test results ...
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TREC-Style Evaluations

2013
TREC-style evaluation is generally considered to be the use of test collections, an evaluation methodology referred to as the Cranfield paradigm. This paper starts with a short description of the original Cranfield experiment, with the emphasis on the how and why of the Cranfield framework. This framework is then updated to cover the more recent "batch"
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The TREC robust retrieval track

ACM SIGIR Forum, 2005
The robust retrieval track explores methods for improving the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. The retrieval task in the track is a traditional ad hoc retrieval task where the evaluation methodology emphasizes a system's least effective topics. The most promising approach to improving poorly performing topics
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TREC interactive with Cheshire II

Information Processing & Management, 2001
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Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)

2017
This entry summarizes the history, results, and impact of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), a workshop series designed to support the information retrieval community by building the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of retrieval ...
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TREC and Interactive Track Environments

2008
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is sponsored by three agencies—the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Department of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the U.S. intelligence community’s Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)—to promote text retrieval research based on large test ...
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Can we Save the rectum by watchful waiting or TransAnal surgery following (chemo)Radiotherapy versus Total mesorectal excision for early REctal Cancer (STAR‐TREC)? Protocol for the international, multicentre, rolling phase II/III partially randomized patient preference trial evaluating long‐course concurrent chemoradiotherapy versus short‐course radiotherapy organ preservation approaches

Colorectal Disease, 2022
Simon Bach
exaly  

TREC: An overview

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2006
Donna K. Harman, Ellen M. Voorhees
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State-of-the-art in biomedical literature retrieval for clinical cases: a survey of the TREC 2014 CDS track

Information Retrieval, 2015
Kirk Roberts, Dina Demner-Fushman, Ellen Voorhees   +2 more
exaly