The TREC terabyte retrieval track

ABSTRACT

The Terabyte Retrieval Track of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) provides an opportunity to test retrieval techniques and evaluation methodologies in the context of a terabyte-scale corpus. Given the size of the corpus, the track also provides a vehicle for participants to investigate query and indexing speeds. This brief summary outlines track activities to date and previews our plans for TREC 2005. For complete information, the reader should consult the full version of this report [1].

REFERENCES

• 1: C. L. A. Clarke, N. Craswell and I. Soboroff. Overview of the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, November, 2004. NIST Special Publication 500-261. See trec.nist.gov.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Retrieval models

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.4 Systems
          Subjects: Textual databases
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing
          Subjects: Linguistic processing

General Terms:
Algorithms, Performance