TREC-COVID: Building a Pandemic Retrieval Test Collection

Abstract

Assessing how good is a search engine has been an active area of development for more than three decades. During the COVID-19 pandemic however the rate of change in what people are interested in, and the availableinformation online has introduced further challenges for search. TREC-COVID introduces a benchmark collectionto evaluate search engines and provide the means to improve them under the special circumstances of a pandemic.