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Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets

Authors

Dean McCullough,Jimmy Lin,Craig Macdonald,Iadh Ounis,Richard McCreadie

National Institute of Standards and Technology,University of Maryland,University of Glasgow,University of Glasgow,University of Glasgow


Proceedings:

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6

Volume

Issue:

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

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Poster Papers

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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.

DOI:

10.1609/icwsm.v6i1.14341


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