SIGIR Workshop on Interactive Retrieval at T R E C and Beyond William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, hersh@ohsu.edu Paul Over, National Institute of Standards and Technology, over@nist.gov Attendees: Nick Belkin, Aurelien Benel, Pia Borlund, Matthew Carey, Efthimis Efthimiadis, Ayse Goker, Donna Harman, Dajing He, Bill Hersh, Peter Ingwersen, Ray Larson, Anton Leuski, Robert McArthur, Gheorge Muresan, Paul Over, Mark Sanderson, Ross Wilkinson, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Joe Zhou The annual Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) has become a major event in information retrieval (IR) research. Over the last few years, its main focus has changed from the common ad hoc and routing tasks to tracks focused on special interests, such as cross-language retrieval, question answering, and large database/Web retrieval. In each of the tracks, a common task and test collection is developed each year for all participating groups to undertake. One problem the tracks have is a paucity of face-to-face meetings, since the only certain time each track actually meets is at the annual TREC meeting. For many tracks, this time is too early to work out all the details of the coming yearg track, and most additional work is done via email. The TREC Interactive Track has been operating
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