Artifact Dataset

Corpus

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/corpus/

A collection of documents, passages, web pages, items, or other retrievable units used for search, retrieval, training, or evaluation.

Also called

Document Corpus
Document Collection

Scope

In IR evaluation, the corpus is the searchable collection component of a test collection. The bare term collection is ambiguous: it may mean a corpus or searchable document collection, while test collection usually means the full evaluation package with corpus, topics or queries, and relevance judgments.

Observed terms

Collection academic
Search Collection academic

Part of

Test Collection

Not equivalent to

Corpus is not BEIR. A corpus is a collection of retrievable items; BEIR is a benchmark suite aggregating multiple evaluation datasets.
Corpus is not Qrels. A corpus contains retrievable items; qrels contain relevance judgments for query-item pairs.
Corpus is not Test Collection. A corpus is the searchable collection; a test collection also includes queries or topics and relevance judgments.

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ID

Canonical ID
https://id.searchplex.net/corpus/
Scheme
Searchplex ID
Machine
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