TREC 2018 News Track

Shudong Huang, Ian Soboroff, Donna Harman
2018 European Conference on Information Retrieval  
While more and more people are relying on social media for news feeds, serious news consumers still resort to well-established news outlets for more accurate and in-depth reporting and analyses. They may also look for reports on related events that have happened before and other background information in order to better understand the event being reported. Many news outlets already create sidebars and embed hyperlinks to help news readers, often with manual efforts. Technologies in IR and NLP
more » ... ready exist to support those features, but standard test collections do not address the tasks of modern news consumption. To help advance such technologies and transfer them to news reporting, NIST, in partnership with the Washington Post, is starting a new TREC track in 2018 known as the News Track. Motivation News content has long been part of information retrieval test collections, but the search tasks that those collections measure is ad hoc search. Ad hoc search is a task where the user is seeking any and all information about a topic of interest. As such, articles are judged to be relevant to a topic if they mention the Copyright c 2018 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
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