Open AccessTREC-COVID: Building a Pandemic Retrieval Test Collection
Author(s) -
Ellen M. Voorhees,
Evangelos Kanoulas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the european association for health information and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-8131
pISSN - 1841-0715
DOI - 10.32384/jeahil17466
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , benchmark (surveying) , computer science , information retrieval , search engine , test (biology) , data collection , geography , statistics , virology , mathematics , medicine , cartography , paleontology , disease , pathology , biology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Assessing how good is a search engine has been an active area of development for more than three decades. During the COVID-19 pandemic however the rate of change in what people are interested in, and the availableinformation online has introduced further challenges for search. TREC-COVID introduces a benchmark collectionto evaluate search engines and provide the means to improve them under the special circumstances of a pandemic.