NOVEMBER CONFERENCE TACKLES TEXT RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

摘要

Everyone knows that "looking for a needle in a haystack" is tough work. However, when the needles are single bits of information and the haystack is the enormous collection of data available via the Internet, one needs help to do the search.That's where text retrieval systems-the tools used to track down and isolate those needles-come in. Developing more powerful, faster and easier-to-use text retrieval systems to meet the demands of the Information Age requires a coordinated research effort. Therefore, NIST and the Defense Department have held the Text Retrieval Conference (known as TREC) since 1992 to provide the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies. The 10th TREC will be held on Nov. 13-16, 2001, at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD.