TREC Podcasts Track is announcing its tasks for 2021, its second year!

Register to participate at NIST: ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.ope… read more about the track at trecpodcasts.github.io and about the data set at podcastsdataset.byspotify.com

The Podcasts Track at TREC is ready to go for its 2021 edition! Join the fun! The two tasks are on podcast retrieval and on podcast summarisation. There are interesting challenges in working with audio first material, but we provide transcripts as well! trecpodcasts.github.io

Last year's overview paper on the Podcasts Track is here: arxiv.org/abs/2103.15953 by Rosie Jones Ben Carterette Ann Clifton Maria Eskevich Gareth J. F. Jones @jussikarlgren Aasish Pappu (ఆశీష్ పప్పు) श्रवण कुमार श्रवण कुमार Yongze Yu

Deadline for this year's submissions now set to September 3, 2021! trecpodcasts.github.io/participant-in…

Participant instructions are now updated and submission format clarified. trecpodcasts.github.io/participant-in…

Segment search test queries are now out! They can be found from the participants' web site at: trec.nist.gov/act_part/track…

There’s still time to participate in the TREC 2021 Podcasts track! We’ve released 50 new test topics for the segment retrieval task in addition to the 50 from last year. See our web site for details trecpodcasts.github.io and contact us if you need to register!

There will be a workshop on Audio Collection Human Interaction at this years CHIIR conference on March 14. Everyone should come! speechretrievalworkshop.github.io