Web Adhoc Track

Overview

The purpose of this track is to evaluate adhoc search methods on a Web collection. The dataset that is used imitates Web documents and Web queries.

For this track the standard procedure is used.

Test Collection

Task Description for Participating Systems

Each participant is granted access to the BY.web and KM.ru collections and the set of queries. The number of queries in the set is 29231. The set was formed as follows:

• all queries from ad hoc search in the web collection tracks of previous ROMIP cycles
• a selection of queries from the logs of Yandex search engines.
  Selection procedure: start from log of queries with at least one result document, remove all queries with search operators and "adult" queries, select every 100th query.
• a selection of queries from the logs of KM.ru search engine
• a selection of queries from BY logs of 2008.

Expected result is an ordered list of document URLs. Maximum list size is 100 per query.

If processing of both collections is not possible then participant may return results based on search in one of the collections only (i.e. either from KM.RU or By.web).

Evaluation Methodology

• instructions for assessors:
  Assessors evaluate document relevance to the query basing on the extended description of the user information need.
• evaluation method: pooling (pool depth is 50)
• relevance scale:
  
  • yes / probably yes / perhaps yes / no / impossible to evaluate
  • yes / no / impossible to evaluate
• official metrics:
  
  • precision
  • recall
  • TREC 11-point precision/recall graph
  • bpref

Data Formats

• collections
• queries
• results