TREC Conversational Assistance Track

Information about the TREC Conversational Assistance Track

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

A reminder that the topics Y4 are available Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT) : https://t.co/KM8u6T61G6

New this year: (1) Different topic format, (2) Mixed-Initiative system responses (3) Complex discourse structures.
@JeffD @JTrippas @maliannejadi @leifos @ogbonokopaul

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

All the past judgments and topic files are in the website github repository (including the 2021 judgments).

https://t.co/9fytr2NHhD

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

The guidelines information for CAsT Y4 are available: https://t.co/WOL4wA8zGs. The collections are all available, including deduping for MS MARCO V2.

The mixed initiative deadline is August 15th. The main task deadline is August 31th.

Be sure to register!

#TREC2022

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

Get ready to participate in CAsT Y4. Be sure to register - https://t.co/59JJeq8U9F

#trec2022 #ConversationalAI

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And a reminder that the submission deadline is August 18th (AOE).

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

Last week we posted updates to https://t.co/WOL4wA8zGs with additional resources and tools (https://t.co/QznMHc5XwQ) for 2021, including automatic baseline runs and converted corpora.

See a summary and ask questions on the mailing list: https://t.co/hYEQ8fJanZ

#trec2021

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

We've been working on baselines and topic development. The #TREC2021 evaluation topics will be released very soon, hopefully in time for your July 4th BBQ. Stay tuned to social media of your choice.

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A reminder that to participate in CAsT you MUST register. The registration form:
https://t.co/z2e4Td8cv5

The official deadline for CAsT 2021 submission will be August 18th.

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

We'll be having an virtual open planning session for Y3 Thursday 18th of February. Please join us!

It will be held 5:00pm - 6:00pm GMT (London).

Zoom link:
https://t.co/0ocV3KP91S

Magic word for meeting is "trec".

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

We're exciting to be planning for the TREC Conversational Assistance Track in #trec2021. We would like your help and feedback to make next year more relevant for your research.

https://t.co/5Jsx4bcm88

#trec2020 #conversationalai
#SCAI_Workshop #EMNLP2020

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We look forward to seeing all participants at the TREC virtual conference. For CAsT teams - please send us a talk title, a brief abstract, and the name of the presenter ASAP (by October 20th) so that we can arrange a talk slot.

#treccast #trec2020

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

We're excited to announce that TREC Conversational Assistance Track will continue in 2021. Please attend TREC (virtually this year) and participate in our planning discussion for next year.

#trec2020 #trec2021

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

Today is the TREC CAsT submission deadline for #TREC2020. We look forward to your submissions! Please contact us on the mailing list if you encounter any last minute issues. The exact deadline is today the 19th 'roughly' AOE - 'early morning' Eastern (NIST time) on the 20th.

[Mohammad Aliannejadi @maliannejadi]

Today at 10:05 PDT,19:05 CET @earissola will present our work on TREC CAsT at #CHIIR2020,with @Dull_Dude there to answer your questions.Don't miss the very first paper on @treccast 😉 where we study the evolution of its conversations and how it can be modeled.
#SIGIR2020 #NLProc

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There's still time to participate in TREC CAsT 2020 - the deadline for submission is August 19th. Find us at #sigir2020 to discuss and also see a bunch of papers using CAsT-19 data.

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

Congratulations to the authors of the #sigir2020 best short paper on Conversational Query Rewriting with TREC CAsT:

Few-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting
https://t.co/2QzDrIMC07

Code:
https://t.co/NAR1s2LzsA

This is the baseline rewriter used in CAsT Y2.

[TREC Conversational Assistance Track @treccast]

Come join us in two hours for information on the CAsT-19 dataset short paper discussion.

https://t.co/YqzuFLcXEN

#sigir2020

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TREC CAsT Year 2 is well under way. There are lots of updates on our website https://t.co/2I4VUC0z5J including the 2020 evaluation topics, baseline GPT-2 + BERT runs, and a web UI with BERT to explore. Reminder that the submission deadline is August 19th. #treccast #trec2020

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There will be lots of research on #conversationalsearch at #sigir2020. We're happy to announce that this includes a short paper on the CAsT dataset construction - "CAsT-19: A Dataset for Research on Conversational Information Seeking" w/ @JeffD @JamieCallan and @XiongChenyan

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In case you missed it, the TREC Conversational Track overview is available in the TREC proceedings and on arXiv. With @JeffD @JamieCallan and @XiongChenyan
https://t.co/6ZWfn6NBs7

Start preparing for TREC CAsT 2020!

#trec2019 #trec2020