Mahak Test Collection

            Welcome!

             Mahak is a freely available test collection for evaluation Farsi information retrieval systems.  Mahak contains  3007 documents gathered  

              from   ISNA news agency, 216 extracted queries and list of relevant documents for each  query calculated using various methods.

           News:

                July 2007 -> Our 2nd paper on Mahak test collection has been submitted!

                June 2007 -> A new version of Mahak -including comparison of qrel construction methods- is available here.                  

                Jan. 2007-> Reference paper of Mahak:

                             K. Sheykh Esmaili, H. Abolhassani, M. Neshati, E. Behrangi, A. Rostami and M. Mohammadi Nasiri "Mahak: A Test Collection for Evaluation of

                             Farsi Information Retrieval Systems", To appear in Proceedings of 5th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications

                             (AICCSA-07), Amman, Jordan, May 2007.                    

                April 2006 -> The first release of Mahak is now ready. Get it!.

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