Overview of the fifth text REtrieval conference (TREC-5)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman · 1996
This paper serves as an introduction to the research described in detail in the remainder of the volume. The next section defines the common retrieval tasks performed in TREC-5. Sections 3 and 4 provide details regarding the test collections and the evaluation methodology used in TREC. Section 5 provides an overview of the retrieval results. The final section summarizes the main themes learned from the experiments.