This repository contains the collection of queries for the paper "A Test Collection for Evaluating Retrieval of Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews".
Update September 2023: Variants of this collection (i.e., different topic sets used in papers) can now be found in the variants directory.
The following files have been made available:
systematic_reviews.json
: A list of urls pointing to the systematic reviews used in this collection.citations.json
: A list of citations that correspond to the systematic reviews. Thedocument_id
refers to theid
insystematic_reviews.json
. Theincluded
field is true if the study was included in the review.queries_unannotated.json
: A list of queries as they appear in their respective systematic reviews. Thedocument_id
refers to theid
insystematic_reviews.json
. Theannotator_id
refers to who collected the query.queries_annotated.json
: A list of queries that have been manually transformed. Thedocument_id
refers to theid
insystematic_reviews.json
. Theannotator_id
refers to who annotated the query with PICO.queries_elastic_bool.json
andqueries_elastic_pico.json
: Both files are lists of Elasticsearch queries in the same format asqueries_annotated.json
.
If you use this collection in your own work, please cite it as:
@inproceedings{scells2017collection,
Author = {Scells, Harrisen and Zuccon, Guido and Koopman, Bevan and Deacon, Anthony and Geva, Shlomo and Azzopardi, Leif},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval},
Organization = {ACM},
Title = {A Test Collection for Evaluating Retrieval of Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews},
Year = {2017}
}