TrecGroup

• Set GROUP = jtminor, wlewis2, danjj, josh3, zhengbo, ulor, ShaunaEggers, bertrama
• Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TrecGroup

Production Schedule

Task	Date	Available?
Tune-Up & Format Check	July 19-26	SE, JTM, DJ, WL
Test Run	July 27-28	SE, JTM, DJ, WL
Summer General Meeting	June 16, 1 p.m.	JTM, BN, DJ
Results	October 10	SE, JTM, DJ, WL
Receive 2006 Questions	July 26	SE, JTM, DJ, WL
Publish Test Run to Mail List	June 23	JTM, BN, DJ, WL
Last Possible Moment	11:59 pm Aug 2	WL
Integration Days	June 12-16	JTM, BN, DJ, WL
Implementation Planning Fest (Get down to the nitty gritty.)	June 12	SE, JTM ,BN, DJ, WL
Email Feedback / Eval / Suggestions	June 23 - July 19	JTM, BN, DJ, WL
Conference	November 14-17	SE, DJ, WL
Combination Meeting	July 17, 5 p.m.
Check-in Meeting	June 2	Party People
Check-in Meeting	July 10, 5 p.m.
573 Project Due	June 1	JJ

Some useful links:

• TREC Homepage
• TREC Mailing List
• TREC QA data from past years and some background material
• TREC Question Answering data (through 2005)
• TREC active participants page (password protected)
• TREC past years result data (partially password protected)
• Stanford NLP tools compendium
• NLP tools for IR
• Lucene Project Homepage

Databases of Named Entities

• Countries and Currencies
• Names from the 1990 US Census
• Cities
• Companies
• Famous People

Please post your March 10 research below...

Related topics: TWikiUsers, TWikiGroups, TWikiAccessControl

-- JoshuaMinor - 13 Mar 2006

• AnaphoraResolution.doc:

• tagger.doc: Tagger

• TRECQA2005.pdf: Overview of some QA Systems, TREC 2005