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. Details about TREC
can be found at the TREC web site, http://trec.nist.gov.
You are invited to participate in TREC 2022. TREC 2022 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
with the submitting organization identified.
Schedule:
Schedule:
As soon as possible -- submit your application to participate in
TREC 2022 as described below.
Submitting an application will add you to the active participants'
mailing list. On Feb 22, NIST will announce a new password
for the "active participants" portion of the TREC web site.
We accept applications to participate until late May, but
applying earlier means you can be involved in track discussions.
Processing applications requires some manual effort on our end.
Once your application is processed (at most a few business days),
the "Welcome to TREC" email message with
details about TREC participation will be sent to the email address
provided in the application.
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.
Some tracks tracks are likely to have a spring submission deadline,
so be sure to subscribe to the track lists described below.
September 30 (estimated)
Relevance judgments and individual
evaluation scores due back to participants.
Nov 14--18
TREC 2022 conference at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md. USA if in-person meeting can be held. Otherwise, a virtual conference during this week.
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 2022 is still being formulated. Track discussion takes place
on the track mailing list (or other communication medium). To join
the discussion,
follow the instructions for the track as detailed below.
TREC 2022 will contain seven tracks. Five of the tracks ran in TREC 2021; the Incident Streams, News, and Podcast tracks have ended, and two new tracks, CrisisFACTS and NeuCLIR, are starting.
Clinical Trials Track
The goal of the new Clinical Trials track is to focus research on the
clinical trials matching problem: given a free text summary of a patient
health record, find suitable clinical trials for that patient.
Anticipated timeline: TBD
Track coordinators:
Dina Demner-Fushman, U.S. National Library of Medicine
William Hersh, Oregon Health and Science University
Kirk Roberts, University of Texas Health Science Center
Ellen Voorhees, NIST
Track Web Page:
http://www.trec-cds.org/
Mailing list:
Google group, name: trec-cds
Conversational Assistance Track
The main aim of Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT) is to advance research
on conversational search systems. The goal of the track is to create
reusable benchmarks for open-domain information centric conversational dialogues.
Anticipated timeline: Topics released in late Spring, results due in August
Track coordinators:
Leif Azzopardi, University of Strathclyde
Jeff Dalton, University of Glasgow
Mohammed Alian Nejadi, University of Amsterdam
Paul Ogbonoko, University of Glasgow
Johanne Trippas, University of Melbourne
Svitlana Vakulenko, University of Amsterdam
Track Web Page:
Conversational Assistance track web page
Mailing list:
Google group, name: trec-cast
Track Slack:
treccast.slack.com
Twitter: @treccast
CrisisFACTS Track
The CrisisFACTS track focuses on temporal summarization for first responders in emergency situations. These summaries differ from traditional summarization in that they order information by time and produce a series of short updates instead of a longer narrative.
Anticipated timeline: Results due in July/August
Track coordinators:
Cody Buntain, University of Maryland
Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow
Track Web Page:
CrisisFACTS track web page
Mailing list:
Google group, name: trec-is
Deep Learning Track
The Deep Learning track focuses on IR tasks where a large training set is available, allowing us to compare a variety of retrieval approaches including deep neural networks and strong non-neural approaches, to see what works best in a large-data regime.
Anticipated timeline: Results due in early August
Track coordinators:
Daniel Campos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nick Craswell, Microsoft
Jimmy Lin, University of Waterloo
Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft
Emine Yilmaz, University College London
Track Web Page:
Deep Learning track web page
Fair Ranking Track
The Fair Ranking track focuses on building two-sided systems that offer fair exposure to ranked content producers while ensuring high results quality for ranking consumers.
Anticipated timeline: Training queries in June/July, evaluation queries in July, results due at the beginning of August
Track coordinators:
Michael Ekstrand, Boise State University
Isaac Johnson, Wikimedia Foundation
Graham McDonald, University of Glasgow
Amifa Raj, Boise State University
Track Web Page:
Fair Ranking track web page
Mailing list:
Google group, name: fair-trec
Health Misinformation Track
The Health Misinformation track aims to (1) provide a venue for research on
retrieval methods that promote better decision making with search engines,
and (2) develop new online and offline evaluation
methods to predict the decision making quality induced by search results.
Consumer health information is used as the domain of interest in the track.
Anticipated timeline: TBD
Track coordinators:
Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo
Maria Maistro, University of Copenhagen
Mark Smucker, University of Waterloo
Track Web Page:
Health Misinformation track web page
Mailing list:
Google group, name: trec-health-misinformation-track
NeuCLIR Track
Cross-language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has been studied at TREC and subsequent evaluation forums for more than twenty years, but recent advances in the application of deep learning to information retrieval (IR) warrant a new, large-scale effort that will enable exploration of classical and modern IR techniques for this task.
Anticipated timeline: Document collection available in January, evaluation topics and baseline results in June, final submissions in July
Track coordinators:
Dawn Lawrie, Johns Hopkins University
Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow
James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University
Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland
Luca Soldaini, Amazon Alexa AI
Eugene Yang, Johns Hopkins University
Track Web Page:
NeuCLIR track web page
Mailing list:
Google group, name: neuclir-participants
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 (assuming in-person meeting is possible).
Some groups may also be selected to present
during plenary talk sessions.
Application Details
Organizations wishing to participate in TREC 2022 should respond
to this call for participation by submitting an application.
Participants in previous TRECs who wish to participate
in TREC 2022 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 acknowledgment 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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