TREC 2009 This week

The annual TREC meeting is this week in Maryland. The proceedings won't be available until February, but you can get hints about what is happened (but no eval results) by following on Twitter, #trec09. Some highlights:

• The ClueWeb09 Wiki has been updated with the webgraph, redirects, and language identification information
  
  
• A Lucene BM25F implementation
  
  
• Jimmy Lin presented the Ivory MapReduce search system.
  

Keep up the news Ian and Iadh!