The Session track is running for a fourth time in 2013. The Session track has two primary goals: (1) to test whether systems can improve their performance for a given query by using previous user interactions with a retrieval system (including previous queries, clicks on ranked results, dwell times, etc.), and (2) to evaluate system performance over an entire query session instead of a single query.

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Coordinators: Ben Carterette (University of Delaware, US)
Evangelos Kanoulas (Google Zurich)
Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia)
Paul Clough (University of Sheffield, UK)

Latest News

December 17, 2012 The track will run again at TREC 2013 with some major differences from 2012. Stay tuned.
August 7, 2012 Minor clarifications to the track guidelines.
August 7, 2012 Data has been released; see the TREC Active Participants page.
June 7, 2012 Official 2012 guidelines have been posted here.
February 2, 2012 The 2012 track will likely be similar in form to the 2011 track. While we work on data, feedback on last year's guidelines is greatly appreciated!
June 6, 2011 Minor updates to guidelines.
May 23, 2011 Draft guidelines posted. Feedback welcome.
May 23, 2011 2010 guidelines available as well.