Overview - News 2020

Proceedings | Data | Runs | Participants

The News track focuses on information retrieval in the service of helping people read the news. In 2018, in cooperation with the Washington Post, we released a new collection of nearly 600,000 news articles, and crafted two tasks related to how news is presented on the web: background linking and entity ranking. For 2020, we added more documents to the collection and retired the entity ranking task in favor of a new wikification task.

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
• wikification: Wikification

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

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