TDT 2003 is the sixth in a series of open evaluations that have investigated several aspects of developing algorithms for the automatic organization of news stories by the real-world events that they describe. Researchers who are interested in the following topics are encouraged to find out more about TDT 2003: high accruracy retrieval of documents, text filtering, cross-language issues, machine translation, speech recognition, text segmentation, compensating for degraded quality text, novelty detection, or other similar topics.

TDT evaluation tasks for 2003 are currently expected to be

• New event detection
• Story link detection
• Topic detection
• Topic Tracking

The preliminary call for participation is available in either MS-word or PDF.

The folks at CIIR from UMass have prepared a TDT 2003 Evaluation Information Primer. The site is a quick start guide to the evaluation and is a good place to start before diving in to the Evaluation Plan.

EVALUATION PROJECT STATUS

Data for the evaluation are provided by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). It can be either purchased as a member of the LDC, or provided free for the evaluation with some restrictions. See the TDT resources web page for additional information.

Joining the TDT mailing list will keep you abreast of recent information. See the contact information below for instructions.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions regarding the TDT corpora and obtaining access to it should be directed to ldc@ldc.upenn.edu