TREC 2002 Interactive Track Report
William Hersh, Paul Over · 1999
This report is an introduction to the work of the TREC-8 Interactive Track with its goal of investigating interactive information retrieval by examining the process as well as the results. Seven research groups ran a total of 14 interactive information retrieval (IR) system variants on a shared problem: a question-answering task, six statements of information need, and a collection of 210,158 articles from the Financial Times of London 1991-1994. This report summarizes the shared experimental framework, which for TREC-8 was designed to support analysis and comparison of system performance only within sites. The report refers the reader to separate discussions of the experiments performed by each participating group - their hypotheses, experimental systems, and results. The papers from each of the participating groups and the raw and evaluated results are available via the TREC home page (trec.nist.gov). 1 Introduction For TREC-8 the high-level goal of the Interactive Track remained ...