A Test Collection for Matching Patient to Clinical Trials

The following is an information retrieval test collection that contains: * 204,855 publicly available clinical trails was crawled from ClinicalTrials.gov. * 60 topics made up of three types: patient case descriptions, patient case summaries and assessor provided ad-hoc queries, totalling an average of 10.2 queries per topic. * 4,000 assessor provided relevance assessment for topic, trial pairs. Further details about the test collection can be found in the following publication: B. Koopman and G. Zuccon. *A test collection for matching patient trials*. In Proceedings of the 39th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, Pisa, July 2016.