FedWeb Greatest Hits

Presenting the New Test Collection for Federated Web Search

by Thomas Demeester (Ghent University), Dolf Trieschnigg, Ke Zhou (Yahoo!), Dong Nguyen, and Djoerd Hiemstra

This paper presents FedWeb Greatest Hits, a large new test collection for research in web information retrieval. As a combination and extension of the datasets used in the TREC Federated Web Search Track, this collection opens up new research possibilities on federated web search challenges, as well as on various other problems.

The paper will be presented at the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015) in Florence, Italy on 18-22 May 2015.

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To obtain the dataset go to: http://fedwebgh.intec.ugent.be.