The Very Large Collection and Web Tracks (Preprint version)
David Hawking, Nick Craswell · 2004
Together, the TREC Very Large Collection (VLC) Track and its successor the Web Track have run for seven years, after an initial VLC pre-track. During that time five new test collections have been created, five different types of retrieval task have been studied, a large number of important issues have been addressed, and new methods have been tried, not only for retrieval, but also for test collection