Report on TREC-2 (Text REtrieval Conference): 30 August–2 September, Gaithersburg, USA

The 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR 2005), celebrated in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on 21-23 March 2005, was jointly organized by the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and the University of Granada (Spain),...

WOSC AND IIGSS JOINT CONFERENCE, PITTSBURGHThe Twelfth Congress of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, and the Fourth Workshop of the International Institute of General Systems Studies were held as a joint event in Pittsburgh, ...

Text retrieval systems have historically been refined through experimentation on test collections. In 1990 NIST was asked to build a very large test collection for use in evaluation of text retrieval technology in the DARPA TIPSTER project. This ...