Report on the TREC-9 experiment : Link-based retrieval and distributed collections
Jacques Savoy, Yves Rasolofo · Text REtrieval Conference · 2000
The web and its search engines have resulted in a new paradigm, generating new challenges for the IR community which are in turn attracting a growing interest from around the world. The decision by NIST to build a new and larger test collection based on web pages represents a very attractive initiative. This motivated us at TREC-9 to support and participate in the creation of this new corpus, to address the underlying problems of managing large text collections and to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness of hyperlinks.