sömaterial
Sömaterial is a compound noun used in Swedish-language technical writing to describe materials used in searching or information retrieval tasks. The term is not a standard entry in major dictionaries and tends to appear in specific contexts such as research papers, system documentation, or tutorials about search technologies. In this usage, sömaterial encompasses datasets, query logs, relevance judgments, ontologies, labeled corpora, evaluation plans, and other artifacts that researchers and developers use to design, test, or evaluate search engines and information retrieval systems.
The word combines sö- as a form related to sök, meaning to search, with material, reflecting items
In practice, sömaterial includes test collections and benchmarks, training and validation datasets, query sets, clicked or