Work within the TREC Programme has concentrated on generalising, not particularising. Now is the time to think about particularising, that is, to address not further generalisation across information-seeking contexts but context-driven particularisation. This note develops this argument from an analysis of TREC work, applying notions taken from discussions of evaluation for language and information processing in general.
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