Overview of the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track

Thomas Demeester; Rudolf Berend Trieschnigg; Dong-Phuong Nguyen; Djoerd Hiemstra

Overview of the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track

Thomas Demeester, Rudolf Berend Trieschnigg, Dong-Phuong Nguyen, Djoerd Hiemstra

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Abstract

The TREC Federated Web Search track is intended to promote research related to federated search in a realistic web setting, and hereto provides a large data collection gathered from a series of online search engines. This overview paper discusses the results of the first edition of the track, FedWeb 2013. The focus was on basic challenges in federated search: (1) resource selection, and (2) results merging. After an overview of the provided data collection and the relevance judgments for the test topics, the participants’ individual approaches and results on both tasks are discussed. Promising research directions and an outlook on the 2014 edition of the track are provided as well.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 22nd Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2013)
Place of Publication	Gaithersburg
Publisher	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Pages	-
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	not assigned
Publication status	Published - Nov 2014
Event	Twenty-second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC-22 2013 - Gaithersburg, United States Duration: 19 Nov 2013 → 22 Nov 2013 Conference number: 22

Publication series

Name	NIST Special Publications
Publisher	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Number	302
Volume	500

Conference

Conference	Twenty-second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC-22 2013
Abbreviated title	TREC
Country/Territory	United States
City	Gaithersburg
Period	19/11/13 → 22/11/13

Keywords

EWI-25346
METIS-309679
IR-93294

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http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec22/papers/FEDERATED.OVERVIEW.pdf

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Demeester, T, Trieschnigg, RB, Nguyen, D-P & Hiemstra, D 2014, Overview of the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track. in Proceedings of the 22nd Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2013). NIST Special Publications, no. 302, vol. 500, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, pp. -, Twenty-second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC-22 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States, 19/11/13. <http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec22/papers/FEDERATED.OVERVIEW.pdf>

Overview of the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track. / Demeester, Thomas; Trieschnigg, Rudolf Berend; Nguyen, Dong-Phuong et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2013). Gaithersburg: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014. p. - (NIST Special Publications; Vol. 500, No. 302).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic

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