Overview - News 2018

Proceedings | Data | Results | Runs | Participants

The News track is a new track for TREC 2019, focused on information retrieval in the service of helping people read the news. In cooperation with the Washington Post, we released a new collection of 600,000 news articles, and crafted two tasks related to how news is presented on the web.

Track coordinator(s):

• Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Shudong Huang, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Tasks:

• background: Background Linking
• entity: Entity Ranking

Track Web Page: http://trec-news.org/

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