TREC 2012

As part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), the Contextual Suggestion Track deals with complex information needs which are highly dependent on context and user interests.

Track Organizers

Track Guidelines

View the guidelines

Contexts, Profiles, and Examples

34 profiles, 50 contexts, and 49 examples are available:

Profiles, contexts, and examples

Suggestion File Validation

XML Schema and validator script

To check that your submissions validate there is a bash script available.

Download both files then run (xmllint is required):

> ./valid.sh XML_FILE context2012.xsd

This will check that the submission file contains the correct tags and attributes, it will also make sure that suggestion tags have unique combinations of profile, context and rank.