Overview of the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track

Thomas Demeester; Dolf Trieschnigg; Dong Nguyen; Djoerd Hiemstra

Overview of the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track

Thomas Demeester, Dolf Trieschnigg, Dong Nguyen, Djoerd Hiemstra

School of Informatics

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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	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2013
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Published - 2013

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