The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) workshop series encourages
research in information retrieval and related applications by
providing a large test collection, uniform scoring procedures,
and a forum for organizations interested in comparing their
results. Now in its 22nd year, the conference has become
the major experimental effort in the field. Participants in
the previous TREC conferences have examined a wide variety
of retrieval techniques and retrieval environments,
including cross-language retrieval, retrieval of web documents,
multimedia retrieval, and question answering. Details about TREC
can be found at the TREC web site, http://trec.nist.gov.
You are invited to participate in TREC 2013. TREC 2013 will
consist of a set of tasks known as "tracks". Each track focuses
on a particular subproblem or variant of the retrieval task as
described below. Organizations may choose to participate in any or
all of the tracks. Training and test materials are available from
NIST for some tracks; other tracks will use special collections that
are available from other organizations for a fee.
Dissemination of TREC work and results other than in the (publicly
available) conference proceedings is welcomed, but the conditions of
participation specifically preclude any advertising claims based
on TREC results. All retrieval results submitted to NIST are
published in the Proceedings and are archived on the TREC web site.
The workshop in November is open only to participating groups that
submit retrieval results for at least one track and to selected
government invitees.
Schedule:
Schedule:
As soon as possible -- submit your application to participate in
TREC 2013 as described below.
Submitting an application will add you to the active participants'
mailing list. On Feb 20, NIST will announce a new password
for the "active participants" portion of the TREC web site.
Beginning March 1
Document disks used in some existing TREC collections distributed
to participants who have returned the required forms.
Please note that no disks will be shipped before March 1.
July--August
Results submission deadline for most tracks.
Specific deadlines for each track will be included in
the track guidelines, which will be finalized in the spring.
September 30 (estimated)
relevance judgments and individual
evaluation scores due back to participants.
Nov 19--22
TREC 2013 conference at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md. USA
Task Description
Below is a brief summary of the tasks. Complete descriptions of
tasks performed in previous years are included in the Overview
papers in each of the TREC proceedings (in the Publications section
of the web site).
The exact definition of the tasks to be performed in each track for
TREC 2013 is still being formulated. Track discussion takes place
on the track mailing list or wiki. To join a track mailing list,
follow the instructions for the track as detailed below.
For questions about the track, post your question to the track mailing list
once you join.
TREC 2013 will contain eight tracks.
Contextual Suggestion Track
The Contextual Suggestion track investigates search techniques for
complex information needs that are highly dependent on context
and user interests.
Track coordinators:
Charles L A Clarke, University of Waterloo
Adriel Dean-Hall, University of Waterloo
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Paul Thomas, CSIRO
Track Web Page:
http://sites.google.com/site/treccontext/
Mailing list:
Send a mail message to listproc (at) nist.gov
such that the body consists of the line
subscribe trec-context <FirstName> <LastName>
Crowdsourcing Track
The Crowdsourcing track investigates emerging crowd-based
methods for search evaluation and/or developing hybrid automation+crowd
search systems.
Track coordinators:
Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research
Matt Lease, University of Texas at Austin
Mark Smucker, University of Waterloo
Track Web Page:
https://sites.google.com/site/treccrowd
Mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/trec-crowd
Federated Web Search Track
The Federated Web Search track investigates techniques for the selection
and combination of search results from a large number of real on-line
web search services.
Track coordinators:
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
Thomas Demeester, Ghent University, IBBT
Dolf Trieschnigg, University of Twente
Dong Nguyen, University of Twente
Track Web Page:
http://sites.google.com/site/trecfedweb/
Mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/trec-fedweb
Knowledge Base Acceleration Track
This track looks to develop techniques to dramatically improve
the efficiency of (human) knowledge base curators by having the system
suggest modifications/extensions to the KB based on its monitoring of
the data streams.
Track coordinators:
John R. Frank, MIT, Diffeo
Max Kleiman-Weiner, MIT, Diffeo
Dan Roberts, MIT, Diffeo
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Track Web Page:
http://trec-kba.org/
Track Mailing List:
http://groups.google.com/group/trec-kba
Microblog Track
The Microblog track examines the nature of real-time information needs
and their satisfaction in the context of microblogging environments
such as Twitter.
Track coordinators:
Miles Efron, University of Illinois
Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland
Track Web Page:
https://sites.google.com/site/microblogtrack/
Mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/trec-microblog
Session Track
The Session track aims to provide the necessary resources in the
form of test collections to simulate user interaction and help evaluate
the utility of an IR system over a sequence of queries and user
interactions, rather than for a single "one-shot" query.
Track coordinators:
Ben Carterette, University of Delaware
Evangelos Kanoulas, Google Zurich
Mark Sanderson, RMIT University
Paul Clough, University of Sheffield
Track Web Page:
http://ir.cis.udel.edu/sessions
Mailing list:
Use the link given on the track web page to join
the email list.
Temporal Summarization Track
The goal of the Temporal Summarization track is to develop systems that
allow users to efficiently monitor the information associated with an
event over time.
Track coordinators:
Javad Aslam, Northeastern University
Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research
Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Northeastern University
Virgil Pavlu, Northeastern University
Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia
Track Web Page:
http://www.trec-ts.org/
Mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/temporalsummarization2013
Web Track
The goal of the Web track is to explore and evaluate Web
retrieval technologies that are both effective and reliable.
Track coordinators:
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research
Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research
Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research
Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo
Track Web Page:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trec-web-2013/
Mailing list:
Send a mail message to listproc (at) nist.gov
such that the body consists of the line
subscribe trec-web <FirstName> <LastName>
Conference Format
The conference itself will be used as a forum both for presentation
of results (including failure analyses and system comparisons),
and for more lengthy system presentations describing retrieval
techniques used, experiments run using the data, and other issues
of interest to researchers in information retrieval.
All groups will be invited to present their results in a joint
poster session. Some groups may also be selected to present
during plenary talk sessions.
Application Details
Organizations wishing to participate in TREC 2013 should respond
to this call for participation by submitting an application.
Participants in previous TRECs who wish to participate
in TREC 2013 must submit a new application.
To apply, submit the online application at
http://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html
The application system
will send an acknowledgement to the email address
supplied in the form once it has processed the form.
Any questions about conference participation should be sent
to the general TREC email address, trec (at) nist.gov.
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