Robertson, S.E.; Walker, S.; Beaulieu, M. - In: Journal of Documentation 53 (1997) 1, pp. 20-34
A brief review of the history of laboratory testing of information retrieval systems focuses on the idea of a general‐purpose test collection of documents, queries and relevance judgements. The TREC programme is introduced in this context, and an overview is given of the methods used in TREC....