Guidelines and timeline for 2011

The timeline for the 2011 edition of the track has been set.
The guidelines are available at this address: http://bit.ly/entity2011-guidelines. Please follow the mailing list for the related discussion.

Final guidelines, timeline, survey

Guidelines for the 2010 Entity track have been finalized. See this page (or as PDF).

The timeline has also been updated. All dates are a few weeks later than they would normally be (by TREC standards). The pilot task will involve community judgment, the exact timeline for that is yet to be announced.

We would like to invite you to fill out a small survey — it will take only 3 minutes of your time, and it doesn’t impose any obligations on you. This survey would help us organizers to get a feel for what to expect in terms of participation, and if there is need that requires us to share some more resources (e.g., software setup).
Take the survey.

Draft guidelines available

The first edition the Entity track, in 2009, has featured a related entity finding (REF) task. This year, REF runs as the main task of the track. A number of changes has been made to the previous edition. In addition, the track introduces a second challenge, entity list completion (ELC), which will run as a pilot task.

The draft guidelines are available at this page (or as PDF).

Your comments on the draft are welcomed and encouraged.

Tags: draft guidelines