# TREC Question Answering Track

TREC Question Answering Track is an AI benchmark; this page records what it measures and traces its data, grader, and scores to primary sources.

Evaluates systems that return concise answers to fact-based questions from large text collections.

## Details

- Address: Online, Global
- Website: [trec.nist.gov/](<https://trec.nist.gov/>)
- Tags: Science
- Category: Reasoning
- Status: Retired
- Data licence: unknown
- Data access: gated
- Grader: exact
- Organization: NIST
- Released: 1999-11
- Paper: [trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec8/papers/qa\_report.pdf](<https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec8/papers/qa_report.pdf>)
- Leaderboard: [trec.nist.gov/data/qamain.html](<https://trec.nist.gov/data/qamain.html>)
- Top-score provenance: unknown
- ABI family: No

## Questions

### Where is TREC Question Answering Track?

TREC Question Answering Track is at Online, Global.

### How do I contact TREC Question Answering Track?

To contact TREC Question Answering Track, visit https://trec.nist.gov/.

## Source

From [Benchmark primary sources](https://aibenchmarkindex.com/about), license CC0-1.0, checked 2026-10-15.

Last updated October 15, 2026.

## Links

- This benchmark on the [web page](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online/trec-question-answering-track>)
- [Reasoning in Online](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online/category/reasoning.md>)
- [More benchmarks in Online](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online.md>)

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