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       <H2>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</H2>

       <H3>TEXT RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE (TREC) 2011</H3>

                      <B>February 2011 - November 2011</B>

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      Conducted by:

      <BR><A HREF="http://www.nist.gov">National Institute of Standards

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The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) workshop series encourages

research in information retrieval and related applications by

providing a large test collection, uniform scoring procedures,

and a forum for organizations interested in comparing their

results.  Now in its twentieth year, the conference has become

the major experimental effort in the field.  Participants in

the previous TREC conferences have examined a wide variety

of retrieval techniques and retrieval environments,

including cross-language retrieval, retrieval of web documents,

multimedia retrieval, and question answering.  Details about TREC

can be found at the TREC web site, <A HREF="http://trec.nist.gov">http://trec.nist.gov</A>.

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<DT>You are invited to participate in TREC 2011.  TREC 2011 will

consist of a set of tasks known as "tracks".  Each track focuses

on a particular subproblem or variant of the retrieval task as

described below.  Organizations may choose to participate in any or

all of the tracks.  Training and test materials are available from

NIST for some tracks; other tracks will use special collections that

are available from other organizations for a fee.

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<DT>Dissemination of TREC work and results other than in the (publicly

available) conference proceedings is welcomed, but the conditions of

participation specifically preclude any advertising claims based

on TREC results.  All retrieval results submitted to NIST are

published in the Proceedings and are archived on the TREC web site.

The workshop in November is open only to participating groups that

submit retrieval results for at least one track and to selected

government invitees.





<B><H3>Schedule:</B></H3>



  <B>Schedule:

  As soon as possible -- submit your application to participate in

        TREC 2011 as described below.</B><BR>

    Submitting an application will add you to the active participants'

    mailing list.  On Feb 23, NIST will announce a new password

    for the "active participants" portion of the TREC web site.



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   <B>Beginning March 1</B><BR>

    Document disks used in some existing TREC collections distributed

    to participants who have returned the required forms.

    Please note that no disks will be shipped before March 1.



<BR><BR>

   <B>July--August</B><BR>

 Results submission deadline for most tracks

     Specific deadlines for each track will be included in

     the track guidelines, which will be finalized in the spring.

   

<BR><BR>

   <B>September 30 (estimated)</B><BR>

relevance judgments and individual

        evaluation scores due back to participants.



<BR><BR>

   <B>Nov 15-18</B><BR>

TREC 2011 conference at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md. USA







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<B><H3>Task Description</B></H3>


Below is a brief summary of the tasks.  Complete descriptions of
tasks performed in previous years are included in the Overview
papers in each of the TREC proceedings (in the Publications section
of the web site).<BR><BR>

The exact definition of the tasks to be performed in each track for
TREC 2011 is still being formulated.  Track discussion takes place
on the track mailing list.  To be added to a track mailing list,
follow the instructions for contacting that mailing list as
given below.  For questions about the track, send mail to the
track coordinator (or post the question to the track mailing list
once you join).<BR><BR>

TREC 2011 will contain eight tracks.  The Chemical IR,
Entity, Legal, Session, and Web tracks will continue from TREC 2010.
TREC 2011 will add tracks on microblogs, crowd sourcing, and
medical records.<BR><BR>









<B><H4><center>Chemical IR Track</B></H4></center>

The Chemical IR track addresses challenges in building

large chemical testbeds to evaluate, in a realistic scenario,

the state of the art in chemical information retrieval and

extraction tools.

<BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B><BR>

Juliane Fluck, juliane.fluck (at) scai.fraunhofer.de<BR>

Jimmy Huang, jhuang (at) yorku.ca<BR>

Mihai Lupu, mihai.lupu (at) ir-facility.org<BR>

John Tait, john.tait (at) ir-facility.org<BR>

Jianhan Zhu, jianhanzhu (at) gmail.com<BR>

<B>Track Web Page:</B><BR>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=https://wiki.ir-facility.org/index.php/TREC_Chemistry_Track">wiki.ir-facility.org/index.php/TREC_Chemistry_Track</A><BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B><BR>

submit a request to subscribe to the trec-chem (at) @ir-facility.org

    mailing list using the form at:

    <a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=https://wiki.ir-facility.org/index.php/Mailing_List_Archives">https://wiki.ir-facility.org/index.php/Mailing_List_Archives</A><BR><BR>





<B><H4><center>Crowdsourcing Track</B></H4></center>



The Crowdsourcing track will investigate emerging crowd-based 

methods for search evaluation and/or developing hybrid automation+crowd 

search systems.





<BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B>

Matt Lease, ml (at) ischool.utexas.edu<BR>

David Lewis, crowdtrack11 (at) DavidDLewis.com<BR>

<B>Track Web Page:</B>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

https://sites.google.com/site/treccrowd2011">https://sites.google.com/site/treccrowd2011</A><BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://groups.google.com/group/trec-crowd">http://groups.google.com/group/trec-crowd</A><BR>

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<B><H4><center>Entity Track</B></H4></center>

The overall aim of this track is to perform entity-oriented search tasks

in the World Wide Web.  These tasks are better answered by returning

specific objects instead of just any type document.

<BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B>

Krisztian Balog, k.balog (at) uva.nl<BR>

Pavel Serdyukov, P.Serdyukov (at) tudelft.nl<BR>

Arjen P. de Vries, arjen (at) acm.org<BR>

<B>Track Web Page:</B>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://ilps.science.uva.nl/trec-entity/">http://ilps.science.uva.nl/trec-entity/</A><BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B>

visit <a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://groups.google.com/group/trec-entity">http://groups.google.com/group/trec-entity</A> to apply for membership.

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<B><H4><center>Legal Track</B></H4></center>

The goal of the legal track is to develop search technology

    that meets the needs of lawyers to engage in effective discovery

    in digital document collections.<BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B>

Gordon V. Cormack, gvcormac (at) uwaterloo.ca<BR>

Maura R. Grossman, MRGrossman (at) wlrk.com<BR>

Bruce Hedin, bhedin (at) h5.com<BR>

Douglas W. Oard, oard (at) umd.edu<BR>

<B>Track Web Page:</B>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://trec-legal.umiacs.umd.edu">http://trec-legal.umiacs.umd.edu</A><BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B>

Contact oard (at) umd.edu to be added to the list.<BR><BR>





<B><H4><center>Medical Records Track</B></H4></center>

The goal of the Medical Records track is to foster research on

providing content-based access to the free-text fields of 

electronic medical records.<BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B>

Ellen Voorhees, ellen.voorhees (at) nist.gov<BR>

Richard Tong, rtong (at) tgncorp.com<BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B>

 <a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://groups.google.com/group/trec-med">http://groups.google.com/group/trec-med</A>

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<B><H4><center>Microblog Track</B></H4></center>

The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation

    methodologies for information seeking behaviors in

    microblogging environments.<BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B>

Iadh Ounis, Jimmy Lin, and Craig Macdonald, 

	trec-microblog-organisers (at) googlegroups.com<BR>

<B>Track Web Page:</B>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://sites.google.com/site/trecmicroblogtrack/">http://sites.google.com/site/trecmicroblogtrack/</A><BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B>

 <a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://groups.google.com/group/trec-microblog">http://groups.google.com/group/trec-microblog</A><BR><BR>



<B><H4><center>Session Track</B></H4></center>

The Session track aims to provide the necessary resources in thexi

form of test collections to simulate user interaction and help evaluate

th e utility of an IR system over a sequence of queries and user

interactions, rather than for a single "one-shot" query.<BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B>

Ben Carterette, carteret (at) cis.udel.edu<BR>

Paul Clough, p.d.clough (at) sheffield.ac.uk<BR>

Evangelos Kanoulas, e.kanoulas (at) sheffield.ac.uk<BR>

Mark Sanderson, mark.sanderson (at) rmit.edu.au<BR>

<B>Track Web Page:</B>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://ir.cis.udel.edu/sessions">http://ir.cis.udel.edu/sessions</A><BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B>

Use the link given on the track web page to join

the email list.<BR><BR>



<B><H4><center>Web Track</B></H4></center>



The Web track explores Web-specific retrieval tasks,

including diversity and efficiency tasks, over collections of

up to one billion Web pages. <BR>

<B>Track coordinators:</B>

Charles Clarke, claclark (at) plg.uwaterloo.ca<BR>

Nick Craswell, nickcr (at) microsoft.com<BR>

<B>Track Web Page:</B>

<a href="http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=

http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~trecweb">http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~trecweb</A><BR>

<B>Mailing list:</B>

Send a mail message to listproc (at) nist.gov

        such that the body consists of the line

        subscribe trec-web &lt;FirstName&gt; &lt;LastName&gt;



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<B><H3>Conference Format</B></H3>

The conference itself will be used as a forum both for presentation

of results (including failure analyses and system comparisons),

and for more lengthy system presentations describing retrieval

techniques used, experiments run using the data, and other issues

of interest to researchers in information retrieval. 

All groups will be invited to present their results in a joint

poster session.  Some groups may also be selected to present

during plenary talk sessions.



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<B><H3>Application Details</B></H3>

Organizations wishing to participate in TREC 2011 should respond

to this call for participation by submitting an application.

Participants in previous TRECs who wish to participate

in TREC 2011 must submit a new application.

To apply, follow the instructions at

<A HREF="http://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html">

<B><H3>http://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html</A></B></H3>

to submit an online application.  The application system

will send an acknowledgement to the email address

supplied in the form once it has processed the form.

<BR><BR>

Any questions about conference participation should be sent

to the general TREC email address, trec (at) nist.gov.

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The TREC Conference series is sponsored by

NIST's<BR><a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov"> Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)</a><BR>

<a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov/div894">Information Access Division (IAD)</a><BR>

<a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov/div894/894.02"> Retrieval Group</a>







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