Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) trec6

Presentation to the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) November 19-21, 1997 Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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Overview of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) TREC-6 Program Committee TREC-6 Track Co-ordinators TREC-6 Participants TREC Goals Trends in TREC TREC-6 Task Query Construction Guidelines Document Sources (Main tasks) Document Sources (Tracks) Topic Creation Sample topics (adhoc) TREC Topic Lengths Relevance Judgements Pooling Graphic Overlap of Submitted Results Assessor picture Relevant Document Distribution TREC-6 Adhoc and Routing Consistency/Completeness Summary TREC-6 Adhoc Results Best Automatic Adhoc Long Topics Best Automatic Adhoc Very Short Topics Best Automatic Adhoc Very Short vs. Long Topics TREC-3 vs. TREC-5 vs. TREC-6 Adhoc Automatic Long Adhoc Progress Best Manual Adhoc TREC-6 vs. TREC-5 Adhoc Manual TREC-6 Routing Results Best Routing Chinese Track Chinese Results Cross-Language Track Cross-Language Results as shown in visual presentation Cross-Language Results as received in conference handouts Filtering Track Filtering Results High-Precision Track High-Precision Results Interactive Track Interactive Results Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track Spoken Document Retrieval Results Very Large Corpus (VLC) Track - revised Very Large Corpus Results Differences in Absolute Performance Systems are not degrading! Hypothesis I: Absolute Recall More Accurate Now Hypothesis I-A: Influence of Manual (Feedback) Systems Hypothesis I-A: Influence of Manual Feedback) Systems Hypothesis I-B: Influence of Relevant Documents Retrieved by Only One System Hypothesis I-B: Influence of Relevant Documents Retrieved by Only One System Additional Hypotheses Some topics are just plain harder! Retrieval Results Sensitive to Topic Creation Strategy Electronic Information Access Cross-Language Results - revised 01/20/98
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Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6)