Announcing the upcoming TREC 2020 Podcasts Track!
This year, TREC will include a track based on podcasts, in cooperation with Spotify, who will supply a data set of about 100,000 podcast episodes with audio, transcripts, and metadata.
The Task
Task 1: Ad hoc retrieval - given a query return fixed-length segments relevant to that query
Task 2: Summarization - given a podcast episode return a short text summary
Releases
Dataset: early April
Task Guidelines: late April
You can find more information here: https://sites.google.com/view/podcastsdataset/home, or let us know if you’d like to join one of the virtual Q&A sessions listed below:
Friday March 27th: 1pm UTC [ 9am NYC, 6am US-PDT, 9pm China ]
Friday March 27th: 8pm UTC [ 4pm NYC, 1pm US-PDT, 4am China ]
To join one of the sessions or ask any questions, please email trec-podcasts-organizers@googlegroups.com.
Please sign up for the track at https://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html
Rosie Jones, Spotify
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University
Maria Eskevich, CLARIN ERIC
Aasish Pappu, Spotify
Ann Clifton, Spotify
Ben Carterette, Spotify
Jussi Karlgren, Spotify
Sravana Reddy, Spotify