A Brief History of TREC
1992: first TREC conference
- started by Donna Harman and Charles Wayne as 1 of 3 evaluations in DARPA�s TIPSTER program
- first 3 CDs of documents from this era, hence known as the �TIPSTER� CDs
- open to IR groups not funded by DARPA
- two tasks: ad hoc retrieval, routing
- 2GB of text, 50 topics
- primarily an exercise in scaling up systems