On May 21, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Stephen Green wrote:
Grant Ingersoll wrote:
Cool, hadn't seen that.
Hi folks. Long time lurker (in RSS), first time mailer. I just
wanted to say that (obviously) I think this is a great idea and we
should try to push it a little further along. I posted a bit more
about it in my blog this morning:
http://blogs.sun.com/searchguy/entry/open_source_trec_trecmentum
The practical upshot: I'd be more than happy to participate in this
and to try to get data sources and queries from Sun or elsewhere.
I'd also be up for trying to find some place to host the collections
and maybe even try to figure out some way that we could get
computing resources to run the evaluations. No guarantees on that
(I'm sure a Sun Lawyer's ears are burning somewhere right now, just
for me having said that!), but I'm willing to tilt at that windmill.
I don't think we want to be in the collection business. It is a lot
of work and a serious amount of legal issues. I am just proposing we
come up w/ questions and judgments for already existing, freely
available collections. There are plenty of them out there, we just
need some scripts, etc. to make it easy for people to download like we
do already with Wikipedia.
TREC had a huge impact on the academic and commercial IR communities
and I think an OSTREC (see, it's already got a cool acronym!) could
benefit all of us (it would give us bragging rights if nothing
else :-)
Cool name, don't care much about bragging rights, just want to spur on
further improvements in scoring, etc.
-Grant
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