Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9) (9th). Held in Gaithersburg, Maryland on November 13-16, 2000.

摘要

This paper provides an overview of the ninth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-9) held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 12-16, 2000. TREC-9 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research in text retrieval. This year's conference consisted of different seven tasks, including a task on question answering and a task on web searching. The paper describes the basics of how TREC is organized, summarizes the main results of each of the TREC-9 tasks, and reports on initial plans for TREC 2001.