KBP 2020 RUFES Schedule

• September 2, 2020: Release task spec
• September 15, 2020: Release ontology
• November 12, 2020: Release development source corpus (100,000 unannotated Washington Post documents for embedding learning and development)
• December 7, 2020: Release sample annotations on 50 documents
• January 10, 2021: Registration deadline
• January 11, 2021: Release eval source corpus (100,000 Washington Post documents)
• January 11 - January 30, 2021: Evaluation Windows
• January 11 - January 22, 2021 (Evaluation Window 1): Systems generate output for the entity types that are in the KBP 2020 RUFES ontology.
• January 24, 2021: Humans provide feedback for system output.
• January 24 - January 31, 2021 (Evaluation Window 2): Systems incorporate human feedback and produce improved output.
• February 2, 2021: Release scores to individual participants
• February 4, 2021: Participants short system description and oral presentation proposals due at NIST (for coordinators' overview paper)
• February 8, 2021: Notification of acceptance of oral presentation proposals
• February 10, 2021: Coordinator's overview paper & Participants' full workshop papers due at NIST
• February 22-23, 2021: Thirteenth TAC Workshop (online)
• March 15, 2021: System description paper camera ready (final proceedings version)