*** The Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task
(TRACS) at WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025 ***
**** Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/shared_task ***
The Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at
WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025 addresses the challenge of automatically linking
astronomical publications to observational facilities. Telescope
bibliographies are crucial for measuring scientific impact, enabling data
discovery, and supporting reproducibility, but remain largely curated by
hand. TRACS provides a dataset of annotated scientific papers and invites
participants to build systems that detect telescope references, group
papers by facility, and classify data usage into science, instrumentation,
mention, or false positives. A key focus is generalization to new
telescopes, ensuring broad applicability to the rapidly evolving
astronomical landscape.
**** Register here: https://tinyurl.com/tracs-wasp-aacl2025
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Join the challenge on ***Kaggle:
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/tracs-wasp-2025 ***
*** Important Dates ***
CfP + Registration starts
August 27, 2025
Train and Validation Data Release
August 31, 2025
Test Set Release
August 31, 2025
Registration Ends
October 10, 2025
System Run and Output Submission
October 13, 2025
System Paper Submission
October 20, 2025
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Notification
November 3, 2025
Camera Ready Submission
November 11, 2025
***Organizers***
- Felix Grezes
<https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/fgrezes.html>, Center for
Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
- Tirthankar Ghosal
<https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal>, National Center
for Computational Sciences | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Kelly Lockhart
<https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/klockhart.html>, Center
for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
- Alberto Accomazzi
<https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/aaccomazzi.html>, Center
for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
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Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/>
Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC)
<https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal>
National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
&
Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI)
<https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/>
University of Tennessee Knoxville
United States
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