Greg Newby wrote:
>I'll be doing my 6th year as a TREC participant this year, in
>case anyone has questions about it. It's pretty fun - you get
>to see how your system ideas really work in practice, head-to-head
>with other systems.
Neat! Sounds exciting. On a tangent, do you think there's any hope of getting a
NIST TIPSTER-like program going again, or is it pretty much up to the private
sector? I suppose that would be for the best anyway, but it seems a shame to
lose out on pooling resources...I wonder how In-Q-Tel will come into play
here.
>This is the premier international forum for experimental information
>retrieval research, where most of the action is. We *do* get
>participants from the NSA and FBI quite regularly, as well as Lexis,
>Oracle and other companies. Unfortunately, these folks are not as
>forthcoming with their specific methods etc. as the academic people
>are.
Yep, no surprise there. From your vantage point, has this kind of "proprietary"
focus slowed down advances in research? Interesting tradeoffs, I'm sure...
>If you're keen on information retrieval, also consider ACM SIGIR, an
>annual conference. This year's is September 9-12 in the big easy:
>http://www.sigir2001.org/
-- Greg
Thanks! I was particularly glad to see the "volunteer" option, now it's at
least in the realm of possibility. :)
~Faustine.
