Other

1999

@misc{TREC1999,
	vgclass =	{other},
	title =	{{T}ext {RE}trieval {C}onference ({TREC})},
	howpublished =	{web page:\\ \texttt{http://trec.nist.gov/}},
	year =	{1999},
	url =	{http://trec.nist.gov/},
	abstract =	{The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), co-sponsored by the
	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Defense
	Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was started in 1992 as part
	of the TIPSTER Text program. Its purpose was to support research within
	the information retrieval community by providing the infrastructure
	necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies.
	In particular, the TREC workshop series has the following goals: 
	\begin{itemize}
			  \item to encourage research in information retrieval based on
			  large test collections; 
			  \item to increase communication among industry, academia, and
			  government by creating an open forum for the exchange of
			  research ideas; 
			  \item to speed the transfer of technology from research labs
			  into commercial products by demonstrating substantial
			  improvements in retrieval methodologies on real-world
			  problems; and 
			  \item to increase the availability of appropriate evaluation
			  techniques for use by industry and academia, including
			  development of new evaluation techniques more applicable to
			  current systems. 
	\end{itemize}},
}