Seventh Text Retrieval Conference (trec-7) Proceedings

This report constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7) held in Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 9-11, 1998. The conference was co-sponsored by NIST & DARPA, & was attended by 150 people. Fifty-six groups including participants from 13 different countries & 19 companies were represented. The conference was the 7th in an on-going series of workshops to evaluate new technologies in text retrieval. The workshop included plenary sessions, discussion groups, a poster session, & demonstrations. Covers: filtering, high precision, interactive, query, spoken document retrieval, & very large corpus. Illustrated.Voorhees, E. M. is the author of 'Seventh Text Retrieval Conference (trec-7) Proceedings', published 1999 under ISBN 9780756706166 and ISBN 0756706165.