2020

TREC-COVID: Constructing a Pandemic Information Retrieval Test Collection

Voorhees, Ellen, Alam, Tasmeer, Bedrick, Steven et al.

Understand

TREC-COVID is a community evaluation designed to build a test collection that captures the information needs of biomedical researchers using the scientific literature during a pandemic.

  • One of the key characteristics of pandemic search is the accelerated rate of change: the topics of interest evolve as the pandemic progresses and the scientific literature in the area explodes.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to capture this progression as it happens.
  • TREC-COVID, in creating a test collection around COVID-19 literature, is building infrastructure to support new research and technologies in pandemic search.

Built on

  • Improving retrieval performance by relevance feedback

    Gerard Salton and Chris Buckley · 1997

    Earlier work this paper cites.

  • The philosophy of information retrieval evaluation

    Ellen M. Voorhees · 2002

    Earlier work this paper cites.

  • TREC Genomics special issue overview

    William Hersh and Ellen Voorhees · 2009

    Earlier work this paper cites.

Similar

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    Ellen M. Voorhees and William Hersh · 2012

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  • Overview of the TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track

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  • Overview of the TREC 2017 Precision Medicine Track

    Kirk Roberts, Dina Demner-Fushman, Ellen M. Voorhees, William R. Hersh, Steven Bedrick, Alexandar Lazar, and Shubham Pant · 2017

    Cited alongside, same era.

Then

  • On building fair and reusable test collections using bandit techniques

    Ellen M. Voorhees · 2018

    Later among the works it cites.

  • Cord-19: The covid-19 open research dataset

    Original

    Lucy Lu Wang, Kyle Lo, Yoganand Chandrasekhar, Russell Reas, Jiangjiang Yang, Darrin Eide, Kathryn Funk, Rodney Kinney, Ziyang Liu, William. Merrill, Paul Mooney, Dewey A. Murdick, Devvret Rishi, Jerry Sheehan, Zhihong Shen, Brandon Stilson, Alex D. Wade, Kuansan Wang, Christopher Wilhelm, Boya Xie, Douglas M. Raymond, Daniel S. Weld, Oren Etzioni, and Sebastian Kohlmeier · 2020

    Closest in time.

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