TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain Track Overview

TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain Track Overview

The main goal of TREC dynamic domain track is to explore and evaluate systems for interactive information retrieval, which reflects real-world search scenarios. Due to the importance of learning from user interactions, this track has been held for the second year. The name of the track contains two parts. “Dynamic” means that the search system dynamically adapts the provided ranking to the user...

University of Glasgow at TREC 2015: Experiments with Terrier in Contextual Suggestion, Temporal Summarisation and Dynamic Domain Tracks

In TREC 2015, we focus on tackling the challenges posed by the Contextual Suggestion, Temporal Summarisation and Dynamic Domain tracks. For Contextual Suggestion, we investigate the use of user-generated data in location-based social networks (LBSN) to suggest venues. For Temporal Summarisation, we examine features for event summarisation that explicitly model the entities involved in the event...

Laval University and Lakehead University at TREC Dynamic Domain 2015: Combination of Techniques for Subtopics Coverage

— This paper describes the joint submission by Laval University and Lakehead University to the TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain track. We submitted four runs for the main track and one run for the judged-only track. In our view, the Dynamic Domain process can be separated into two phases: a traditional static information retrieval phase to generate an initial set of documents, followed by a dynamic inf...

ECNU at TREC 2015: LiveQA Track

This paper reports on East Normal China University’s participation in the TREC 2015 LiveQA track. An overview is presented to introduce our community question answer system and discuss the technologies. This year, the Trec LiveQA track expands the traditional QA track, focusing on “live” question answering for the real-user questions. At this challenge, we built a real-time community question a...

Overview of the TREC - 2015 Microblog Track ( Notebook Draft )