KBP 2020 RUFES Schedule

• September 2, 2020: Release task spec
• September 15, 2020: Release ontology
• September 15, 2020: Release development source corpus (100,000 unannotated Washington Post documents for embedding learning and development)
• November 1, 2020: Registration deadline
• November 15, 2020: Release sample annotations on 50 documents
• December 1, 2020: Release eval source corpus (100,000 Washington Post documents)
• December 7-December 20, 2020: Evaluation Windows
• December 7-December 11, 2020 (Evaluation Window 1): Systems generate output for the entity types that are in the KBP 2020 RUFES ontology.
• December 13, 2020: Humans provide feedback for system output.
• December 13-December 20, 2020 (Evaluation Window 2): Systems incorporate human feedback and produce improved output.
• December 23, 2020: Release scores to individual participants
• January 5, 2021: Participants short system description and oral presentation proposals due at NIST (for coordinators' overview paper)
• January 10, 2021: Notification of acceptance of oral presentation proposals
• January 15, 2021: Coordinator's overview paper & Participants' full workshop papers due at NIST
• January 25-26, 2021: Thirteenth TAC Workshop (online)
• March 1, 2021: System description paper camera ready (final proceedings version)