Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets

Authors

  • Dean McCullough National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Jimmy Lin University of Maryland
  • Craig Macdonald University of Glasgow
  • Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow
  • Richard McCreadie University of Glasgow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i1.14341

Abstract

Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) to support the academic study of Twitter as a real-time information source. We formalize an information seeking task — real-time search — and offer a methodology for measuring system effectiveness. At the TREC 2011 Microblog Track, 58 research groups participated in the first ever evaluation of this task. We present data from the effort to illustrate and support our methodology.

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Published

2021-08-03

How to Cite

McCullough, D., Lin, J., Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., & McCreadie, R. (2021). Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6(1), 579-582. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i1.14341

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012): Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Section

Poster Papers