Overview - Temporal Summarization 2014

Proceedings | Data | Runs | Participants

News events such as protests, accidents or natural disasters represent a unique information access problem where traditional approaches fail. For example, immediately after an event, the corpus may be sparsely populated with relevant content. Even when, after a few hours, relevant content becomes available, it is often inaccurate or highly redundant. At the same time, crisis events demonstrate a scenario where users urgently need information, especially if they are directly affected by the event. The goal of this track is to develop systems for efficiently monitoring the information associated with an event over time. Specifically, we are interested in developing systems which can broadcast short, relevant, and reliable sentencelength updates about a developing event.

Track coordinator(s):

• Javed Aslam, Northeastern University
• Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Northeastern University
• Virgil Pavlu, Northeastern University
• Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research
• Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow
• Tetsuya Sakai, Waseda University

Track Web Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170618023232/http://www.trec-ts.org/

---