The study of interactive information retrieval (IR) has been a small but co
nstant part of the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC 1-8) from the beginning
. The main arena for such work has been the Interactive Track (TREC 3-8). T
his report presents a bibliography of those efforts together with a summary
of the evolving experimental framework within which the studies took place
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