TREC-COVID: Rationale and Structure of an Information Retrieval Shared Task for COVID-19.

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2020
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TREC-COVID is an information retrieval (IR) shared task initiated to support clinicians and clinical research during the COVID-19 pandemic. IR for pandemics breaks many normal assumptions, which can be seen by examining nine important basic IR research questions related to pandemic situations. TREC-COVID differs from traditional IR shared task evaluations with special considerations for the expected users, IR modality considerations, topic development, participant requirements, assessment process, relevance criteria, evaluation metrics, iteration process, projected timeline, and the implications of data use as a post-task test collection. This article describes how all these were addressed for the particular requirements of developing IR systems under a pandemic situation. Finally, initial participation numbers are also provided, which demonstrate the tremendous interest the IR community has in this effort.
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Authors Roberts, Kirk;Alam, Tasmeer;Bedrick, Steven;Demner-Fushman, Dina;Lo, Kyle;Soboroff, Ian;Voorhees, Ellen;Wang, Lucy Lu;Hersh, William R;
Journal Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Year 2020
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ocaa091
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Keywords
cytokine covid-19 sars-cov-2 il-2r/lymphocyte ratio clinical progression

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