Overview - Real-time Summarization 2018

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The TREC 2018 Real-Time Summarization (RTS) Track is the third iteration of a community e‚ort to explore techniques, algorithms, and systems that automatically monitor streams of social media posts such as tweets on Twi‹er to address users’ prospective information needs. ‘ese needs are articulated as “interest pro€les”, akin to topics in ad hoc retrieval. In our formulation of real-time summarization, the goal is for a system to deliver relevant and novel content to users in a timely fashion. We refer to these messages generically as “updates”.

Track coordinator(s):

• Royal Sequiera, University of Waterloo
• Luchen Tan, University of Waterloo
• Jimmy Lin, University of Waterloo

Tasks:

• a: Real-time updates
• b: Email digests

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

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