TAC KBP 2013 Entity Linking Track

Overview

The entity linking task is to link name mentions of entities in a document collection to entities in a reference KB, or to new named entities discovered in the collection. The document collection will comprise a combination of newswire articles and posts to blogs, newsgroups, and discussion fora. Given a query that consists of a document with a specified name mention of an entity, the task is to determine the correct node in the reference KB for the entity, adding a new node for the entity if it is not already in the reference KB. Entities can be of type PER (person), ORG (organization), or GPE (geopolitical entity).

In addition to monolingual English entity linking, cross-lingual entity linking tasks will be offered in Chinese (Chinese and English documents, English reference KB) and Spanish (Spanish and English documents, English reference KB).

Schedule

April	Track guidelines posted
By early June	Distribution of document collections
June 15	Deadline for registration for track participation
September 9-16	English Entity Linking evaluation window
September 16-23	Cross-Lingual Spanish and Chinese Entity Linking evaluation windows
By late September	Release of individual evaluated results to participants
September 30	Deadline for short system descriptions
September 30	Deadline for workshop presentation proposals
mid October	Notification of acceptance of presentation proposals
November 8	Deadline for system reports (workshop notebook version)
November 18-19	TAC KBP 2013 workshop in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
February 15, 2014	Deadline for system reports (final proceedings version)

Track Coordinator