Searching for scientific evidence in a pandemic : An overview of TREC-COVID

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We present an overview of the TREC-COVID Challenge, an information retrieval (IR) shared task to evaluate search on scientific literature related to COVID-19. The goals of TREC-COVID include the construction of a pandemic search test collection and the evaluation of IR methods for COVID-19. The challenge was conducted over five rounds from April to July 2020, with participation from 92 unique teams and 556 individual submissions. A total of 50 topics (sets of related queries) were used in the evaluation, starting at 30 topics for Round 1 and adding 5 new topics per round to target emerging topics at that state of the still-emerging pandemic. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the structure and results of TREC-COVID. Specifically, the paper provides details on the background, task structure, topic structure, corpus, participation, pooling, assessment, judgments, results, top-performing systems, lessons learned, and benchmark datasets.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:121

Enthalten in:

Journal of biomedical informatics - 121(2021) vom: 01. Sept., Seite 103865

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Roberts, Kirk [VerfasserIn]
Alam, Tasmeer [VerfasserIn]
Bedrick, Steven [VerfasserIn]
Demner-Fushman, Dina [VerfasserIn]
Lo, Kyle [VerfasserIn]
Soboroff, Ian [VerfasserIn]
Voorhees, Ellen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Lucy Lu [VerfasserIn]
Hersh, William R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Information retrieval
Journal Article
Pandemics
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
TREC-COVID

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Date Completed 09.09.2021

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103865

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327917571