A reminder that the topics Y4 are available Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT) : New this year: (1) Different topic format, (2) Mixed-Initiative system responses (3) Complex discourse structures. @JeffD @JTrippas @maliannejadi @leifos @ogbonokopaul.

All the past judgments and topic files are in the website github repository (including the 2021 judgments).

The guidelines information for CAsT Y4 are available: The collections are all available, including deduping for MS MARCO V2. The mixed initiative deadline is August 15th. The main task deadline is August 31th. Be sure to register!. #TREC2022.

Get ready to participate in CAsT Y4. Be sure to register - #trec2022 #ConversationalAI.

And a reminder that the submission deadline is August 18th (AOE).

Last week we posted updates to with additional resources and tools ( for 2021, including automatic baseline runs and converted corpora. See a summary and ask questions on the mailing list: . #trec2021.

We've been working on baselines and topic development. The #TREC2021 evaluation topics will be released very soon, hopefully in time for your July 4th BBQ. Stay tuned to social media of your choice.

A reminder that to participate in CAsT you MUST register. The registration form:. The official deadline for CAsT 2021 submission will be August 18th.

We'll be having an virtual open planning session for Y3 Thursday 18th of February. Please join us! . It will be held 5:00pm - 6:00pm GMT (London). Zoom link: . Magic word for meeting is "trec".

We're exciting to be planning for the TREC Conversational Assistance Track in #trec2021. We would like your help and feedback to make next year more relevant for your research. #trec2020 #conversationalai.#SCAI_Workshop #EMNLP2020.

We look forward to seeing all participants at the TREC virtual conference. For CAsT teams - please send us a talk title, a brief abstract, and the name of the presenter ASAP (by October 20th) so that we can arrange a talk slot. #treccast #trec2020.

We're excited to announce that TREC Conversational Assistance Track will continue in 2021. Please attend TREC (virtually this year) and participate in our planning discussion for next year. #trec2020 #trec2021.

Today is the TREC CAsT submission deadline for #TREC2020. We look forward to your submissions! Please contact us on the mailing list if you encounter any last minute issues. The exact deadline is today the 19th 'roughly' AOE - 'early morning' Eastern (NIST time) on the 20th.

RT @maliannejadi: Today at 10:05 PDT,19:05 CET @earissola will present our work on TREC CAsT at #CHIIR2020,with @Dull_Dude there to answer….

There's still time to participate in TREC CAsT 2020 - the deadline for submission is August 19th. Find us at #sigir2020 to discuss and also see a bunch of papers using CAsT-19 data.

Congratulations to the authors of the #sigir2020 best short paper on Conversational Query Rewriting with TREC CAsT:. Few-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting. Code:. This is the baseline rewriter used in CAsT Y2.

Come join us in two hours for information on the CAsT-19 dataset short paper discussion. #sigir2020.

TREC CAsT Year 2 is well under way. There are lots of updates on our website including the 2020 evaluation topics, baseline GPT-2 + BERT runs, and a web UI with BERT to explore. Reminder that the submission deadline is August 19th. #treccast #trec2020.

There will be lots of research on #conversationalsearch at #sigir2020. We're happy to announce that this includes a short paper on the CAsT dataset construction - "CAsT-19: A Dataset for Research on Conversational Information Seeking" w/ @JeffD @JamieCallan and @XiongChenyan.

In case you missed it, the TREC Conversational Track overview is available in the TREC proceedings and on arXiv. With @JeffD @JamieCallan and @XiongChenyan. Start preparing for TREC CAsT 2020!. #trec2019 #trec2020.