TREC-1&2: Comments
- “TREC does not at all represent the kind of retrieval activities for which Okapi was designed [evaluation of highly interactive bibliographic search systems with untrained users]. However, our approach to TREC has been to try to arrive at some compromise between the aims of Okapi and those of TREC.” Robertson, Walker, Beaulieu, Gull & Lau.
- Need more realistic rules for interactive searching.
- Need more participants !