Est. 2018
The TREC News Track features modern search tasks in the news domain. In partnership with The Washington Post, we are developing test collections that support the search needs of news readers and news writers in the current news environment. It's our hope that the track will foster research that establishes a new sense for what "relevance" means for news search.
Given a news story, retrieve other news articles that provide important context or background information. Build these links into an "explainer" box where links are grouped by what kind of context they offer. The goal is to help a reader understand or learn more about the story or main issues in the current article using the best possible sources.
Given a news story, identify short passages in the article that should be hyperlinked to either another article, or a Wikipedia article, in order to provide in-context access to information that would help contextualize or fill in background on the story being read.
The TREC Washington Post Collection can be obtained here
The current version of the track guidelines, v1.1, is now available (5/25/2021). Key dates are now set: Topics will be out on April 30th, 2020, and runs are due June 4th.
Active participant discussion is happening on Slack.
We have a question-and-answer forum where you can ask questions and (wait for it) get answers. This is primarily intended for general information; if you're planning to participate, you need to register for TREC and join the Slack channel for active participant information.