TREC Entity

Yes, things have been quiet lately on the TREC Entity homepage. Now that training topics have been made available, I sincerely hope that this is about to change. We are in the process of developing test topics and finalizing the guidelines, so make sure your voice is heard if you want something different…

The first year of the track will investigate the problem of related entity finding. Given the name and homepage of an entity, as well as the type of the target entity, find related entities that are of target type. Entity types are limited to people, organizations, and products. Participating systems need to return homepages of related entities, and, optionally, a string answer that represents the entity concisely (i.e., the name of the entity).

The draft guidelines are available at this page.