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cs.IR2025★ 15 cited

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track

Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz +4

This is the fourth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels…

cs.IR2025

Overview of the TREC 2023 deep learning track

Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz +5

This is the fifth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human-annotated training labels a…

cs.IR2024★ 9 cited

A Large-Scale Study of Relevance Assessments with Large Language Models: An Initial Look

Shivani Upadhyay, Ronak Pradeep, Nandan Thakur +5

The application of large language models to provide relevance assessments presents exciting opportunities to advance information retrieval, natural language processing, and beyond,…

cs.IR2024★ 7 cited

LLM-Assisted Relevance Assessments: When Should We Ask LLMs for Help?

Rikiya Takehi, Ellen M. Voorhees, Tetsuya Sakai +1

Test collections are information-retrieval tools that allow researchers to quickly and easily evaluate ranking algorithms. While test collections have become an integral part of IR…

cs.IR2022

Corrected Evaluation Results of the NTCIR WWW-2, WWW-3, and WWW-4 English Subtasks

Tetsuya Sakai, Sijie Tao, Maria Maistro +7

Unfortunately, the official English (sub)task results reported in the NTCIR-14 WWW-2, NTCIR-15 WWW-3, and NTCIR-16 WWW-4 overview papers are incorrect due to noise in the official…

cs.IR2022★ 4 cited

Can Old TREC Collections Reliably Evaluate Modern Neural Retrieval Models?

Ellen M. Voorhees, Ian Soboroff, Jimmy Lin

Neural retrieval models are generally regarded as fundamentally different from the retrieval techniques used in the late 1990's when the TREC ad hoc test collections were construct…

cs.IR2021★ 6 cited

Podcast Metadata and Content: Episode Relevance andAttractiveness in Ad Hoc Search

Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones, Gareth F. Jones +6

Rapidly growing online podcast archives contain diverse content on a wide range of topics. These archives form an important resource for entertainment and professional use, but the…

cs.IR2021

Searching for Scientific Evidence in a Pandemic: An Overview of TREC-COVID

Kirk Roberts, Tasmeer Alam, Steven Bedrick +6

We present an overview of the TREC-COVID Challenge, an information retrieval (IR) shared task to evaluate search on scientific literature related to COVID-19. The goals of TREC-COV…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

TREC Deep Learning Track: Reusable Test Collections in the Large Data Regime

Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz +3

The TREC Deep Learning (DL) Track studies ad hoc search in the large data regime, meaning that a large set of human-labeled training data is available. Results so far indicate that…

cs.IR2020★ 27 cited

How to Measure the Reproducibility of System-oriented IR Experiments

Timo Breuer, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr +4

Replicability and reproducibility of experimental results are primary concerns in all the areas of science and IR is not an exception. Besides the problem of moving the field towar…

cs.IR2020★ 30 cited

TREC-COVID: Constructing a Pandemic Information Retrieval Test Collection

Ellen Voorhees, Tasmeer Alam, Steven Bedrick +6

TREC-COVID is a community evaluation designed to build a test collection that captures the information needs of biomedical researchers using the scientific literature during a pand…