Ellen Voorhees

Information retrieval test collections—benchmark search tasks consisting of a corpus, a query set, relevance judgments, and associated evaluation metrics—are foundational infrastructure for off-line evaluation of search systems. High-quality test collections accelerate development of effective search algorithms and facilitate technology transfer, but building large-scale, representative test collections is challenging.

Women in tech are noticeably underrepresented, and women in the search space are even more rare. Join us for a multi-perspective panel discussion featuring women working in the Search field.