Thanks everyone for submitting runs to one of the TREC Federated Web Search tasks. We had roughly the same number of participants as last year; not bad, although our goal was to grow. Interestingly, our automatic submission system received an amazing 917 runs.
We discussed the future of the FedWeb track, and we decided that we will not propose a FedWeb 2015 track as coordinators. We were unable to secure funding. Combined with the fact that we created the FedWeb collection for three years in a row (although the first time independently of TREC), we believe it is best to properly finish the TREC this year, but not to run again next year. Read more…
Thomas Demeester, Dong Nguyen, Dolf Trieschnigg, Ke Zhou, and Djoerd Hiemstra