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Test Collection

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/test-collection/

An information-retrieval evaluation resource consisting of a document or item collection, a set of topics or queries, and relevance judgments.

Scope

In Cranfield-style and TREC-style evaluation, a test collection provides the fixed materials needed for offline retrieval evaluation. It is broader than qrels alone and may be packaged as part of a benchmark suite.

Related

Not equivalent to

  • Test Collection is not BEIR. BEIR is a benchmark suite aggregating multiple retrieval datasets and test collections; a test collection is a general evaluation-resource pattern.
  • Test Collection is not Qrels. Qrels are the relevance-judgment component of a test collection, not the entire evaluation collection.

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