Conducted by:
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) workshop series encourages research in information retrieval and related applications by providing a large test collection, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested in comparing their results. Details about TREC can be found at the TREC web site, http://trec.nist.gov.

You are invited to participate in TREC 2024. TREC 2024 will consist of a set of tasks known as “tracks”. Each track focuses on a particular subproblem or variant of the retrieval task as described below. Organizations may choose to participate in any or all of the tracks. Training and test materials are available from NIST for some tracks; other tracks will provide instructions for dataset download.

Dissemination of TREC work and results other than in the (publicly available) conference proceedings is welcomed, but the conditions of participation specifically preclude any advertising claims based on TREC results. All retrieval results submitted to NIST are published in the Proceedings and are archived on the TREC web site with the submitting organization identified.

TREC participants are added to the TREC Slack instance, and the primary mode of communication in TREC is Slack.  There is a general mailing list (trecXXXX@nist.gov) but this is used for major announcements only.  Some tracks have mailing lists which you should follow if you are interested in those tracks.

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