TREC 2014 Contextual Suggestion Track: Call for participation

Third Contextual Suggestion Track

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2014)

November 18-21, Gaithersburg MD, USA

Submissions Due: July 21, 2014


* Call for Participants

The Contextual Suggestion track considers a complex information need, 
highly dependent on context, which nonetheless can be simply expressed. 
  The track focuses on one situation: a user with a mobile device with 
limited interaction but some sort of user profile; who is in a strange 
town; and who is looking for something to do.  There is no explicit 
query: the implicit query is �here I am, what should I do?�.

Given a profile (likes and dislikes of attractions) and a context (new 
city) pair, participants should return a ranked list of up to 50 ranked 
suggestions.  Each suggestion should be appropriate to the profile 
(based on the user�s preferences) and the context (according to the 
___location).  Profiles correspond to the stated preferences of real 
individuals, who will return to judge proposed suggestions.

Participating groups will be given:
- A set of profiles for each user (like and dislikes for 100 attractions 
in two cities).
- A set of geographical contexts (50 randomly selected US cities) that 
the system should target.

In order to find candidate suggestions, a system may use:
- URLs from the open Web
- ClueWeb12 <http://lemurproject.org/clueweb12/>
- ClueWeb12 B13 (7% of all of ClueWeb12)

Additionally, participants may use other available resources, such as 
Google Places, etc.  Training data is available in the form of judged 
profile+context pairs from the TREC 2012 and 2013 version of this track.


* We Need Your Help!

Help us define the best methods of suggesting attractions:

- Sign up now!
- Start investigating the problem with the contexts (available already) 
and profiles (available on June 2).
- Submit suggestions by July 21.
- Participate in the track workshop in November.


* Further details

See the Contextual Suggestion Track guidelines at 
https://sites.google.com/site/treccontext/trec-2014/

Sign up for TREC'14 at http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/call2014.html

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