Overview - Real-time Summarization 2017

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The TREC 2017 Real-Time Summarization (RTS) Track is the second iteration of a community effort to explore techniques, algorithms, and systems that automatically monitor streams of social media posts such as tweets on TwiŠer to address users’ prospective information needs. These needs are articulated as “interest profiles”, akin to topics in ad hoc retrieval. In real-time summarization, the goal is for a system to deliver interesting and novel content to users in a timely fashion. We refer to these messages generically as “updates”.

Track coordinator(s):

• Jimmy Lin, University of Waterloo
• Salman Mohammed, University of Waterloo
• Royal Sequiera, University of Waterloo
• Luchen Tan, University of Waterloo
• Nimesh Ghelani, University of Waterloo
• Mustafa Abualsaud, University of Waterloo
• Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow
• Dmitrijs Milajevs, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Ellen Voorhees, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

Tasks:

• a: Push notifications
• b: Email digests

Track Web Page: https://trecrts.github.io/

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