Overview of the TREC 2009 Web Track

By C. Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff. Text Retrieval Conference, 2009

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The Effect of Content-Equivalent Near-Duplicates on the Evaluation of Search Engines (2020, methodology): “1 Thus validated, we go on to apply it to a selection of ad hoc retrieval tracks succeeding the one originally studied by Bernstein and Zobel: the Terabyte Track (2004) (2005) (2006) [6, 7, 12] , the Web Track (2009-2014) [8] [9] [10] [11] 13, 14] , and the recent Common Core Track (2017-2018) [1, 2”
MS MARCO: Benchmarking Ranking Models in the Large-Data Regime (2021, methodology): “Similar strategies of finetuning on MS MARCO and evaluating on Robust04, GOV2 [10], and ClueWeb [11] have been employed in other recent studies [30, 37, 40, 91, 92], sometimes in combination with weak”
Efficient and effective spam filtering and re-ranking for large web datasets (2010, methodology): “The first of these tasks is the ad hoc task of the Web Track (Clarke et al. 2009).”
To Clean or Not to Clean (2018, methodology): “The community must have faced this issue during the early years of the TREC Web Track [16, 19, 22, 23, 42], but the research focus was primarily on link analysis and differential weighting for different parts of Web pages, rather than on parsing per se [22, 23, 42, 47].”