TrecGroup

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

Production Schedule

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