Searching for Scientific Evidence in a Pandemic: An Overview of TREC-COVID

no code implementations • 19 Apr 2021 • Kirk Roberts, Tasmeer Alam, Steven Bedrick, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kyle Lo, Ian Soboroff, Ellen Voorhees, Lucy Lu Wang, William R Hersh

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.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

TREC-COVID: Constructing a Pandemic Information Retrieval Test Collection

no code implementations • 9 May 2020 • Ellen Voorhees, Tasmeer Alam, Steven Bedrick, Dina Demner-Fushman, William R Hersh, Kyle Lo, Kirk Roberts, Ian Soboroff, Lucy Lu Wang

TREC-COVID is a community evaluation designed to build a test collection that captures the information needs of biomedical researchers using the scientific literature during a pandemic.

Information Retrieval Retrieval