Overview of the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track

The Terabyte Track explores how adhoc retrieval and evaluation techniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections. For TREC 2004, our first year, 50 new adhoc topics were created and evaluated over a a 426GB collection of 25 million documents taken from the .gov Web domain. A total of 70 runs were submitted by 17 groups. Along with the top documents, each group reported average query times, indexing times, index sizes, and hardware and software characteristics for their systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Charles L. A. Clarke, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff
• Keywords: Adhoc Retrieval, Average Query Times, Terabyte Track, TREC 2004, TREC 2008