Fifteenth Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2023)

The Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is a series of evaluation workshops organized to encourage research in Natural Language Processing and related applications, by providing a large test collection, common evaluation procedures, and a forum for organizations to share their results. TAC comprises sets of tasks known as "tracks," each of which focuses on a particular subproblem of NLP. TAC tracks focus on end-user tasks, but also include component evaluations situated within the context of end-user tasks.

The Fifteenth Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2023) has three tracks:

• Plain Language Adaptation of Biomedical Abstracts (PLABA)
  The goal of the PLABA track is to adapt biomedical abstracts for the general public using plain language.
  Track coordinators: Brian Ondov (brian.ondov@nih.gov) and Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@mail.nih.gov)
  Home page: https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/plaba2023/
  Group / mailing list: plaba2023@googlegroups.com
  


• Recognizing Ultra Fine-grained EntitieS (RUFES)
  The goal of the KBP RUFES track is to extract and corefer mentions of entities with fine-grained types in text.
  Track coordinator: Hoa Dang (hoa.dang@nist.gov) and Shudong Huang (shudong.huang@nist.gov)
  Home page: https://tac.nist.gov/2023/KBP/RUFES/
  Group / mailing list: tac-kbp@list.nist.gov
  


• Claim Relation Understanding and Extraction (CRUX)
  The goal of the CRUX track is to develop and evaluate technologies that extract structured information from a variety of unstructured multilingual multimodal sources in order to extract explicit alternative claims about situations and events in noisy, conflicting, and potentially deceptive information environments.
  Track coordinator: Yi Fung (yifung2@illinois.edu)
  Home page: https://tac.nist.gov/2023/KBP/CRUX/
  Group / mailing list: tac-crux2023@googlegroups.com
  

TAC 2023 Schedule
April - September 2023	Track evaluation windows (varies by track)
September 15, 2023	Deadline for registration for TAC 2023 track participation
By mid October 2023	Release of individual evaluated results to participants
October 15, 2023	Deadline for short system descriptions
October 15, 2023	Deadline for workshop presentation proposals
October 20, 2023	Notification of acceptance of presentation proposals
November 1, 2023	Deadline for system reports (workshop notebook version)
November 13, 2023	TAC 2023 workshop in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (co-located with TREC/TRECVID 2023)
March 15, 2024	Deadline for system reports (final proceedings version)

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