TREC Genomics Track at UIC

We considered that a query of this year’s Genomics track consists of two parts, target and qualification. A target refers to any instance of a certain entity type and the qualification refers to the condition that the target needs to satisfy in order to be qualified as an answer to the query. For example, the target and qualification of the query “What [ANTIBODIES] have been used to detect protein TLR4?” are “an instance of ANTIBODIES” and “have been used to detect protein TLR4”, respectively. The relevance of a document to a query was measured by to what degree the document contains a target and satisfies the qualification.