Overview - Incident Streams 2020

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Between 2018 and 2019, the Incident Streams track (TREC-IS) has developed standard approaches for classifying the types and criticality of information shared in online social spaces during crises, but the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 has shifted the landscape of online crises substantially. While prior editions of TREC-IS have lacked data on large-scale public-health emergencies as these events are exceedingly rare, COVID-19 has introduced an over-abundance of potential data, and significant open questions remain about how existing approaches to crisis informatics and datasets built on other emergencies adapt to this new context.

Track coordinator(s):

• Cody Buntain, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow
• Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Tasks:

• 2020A-task1: All High-Level Information Type Classification
• 2020A-task2: Selected High-Level Information Type Classification
• 2020A-task3: COVID-19-Specific Information-Type Classification
• 2020b-task1: All High-Level Information Type Classification
• 2020b-task2: Selected High-Level Information Type Classification
• 2020b-task3: COVID-19-Specific Information-Type Classification

Track Web Page: https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~richardm/TREC_IS/

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