Schedule

Tentative 2026 Schedule:

  17 Feb

• NIST sends out Call for Participation in TREC 2026

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  1 March

• Final versions of TREC 2025 papers are due

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   1 Apr

• Final Guidelines for tracks are complete

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  25 May - 19 June

• VQA: Annotations for VQA testing dataset starts

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  6 July

• VQA: Testing data available for answer generation (AG) task

  3 August

• VQA: Submission page open. Submit "answer generation (AG)" runs Here

  10 August

• VQA: Submission page closes (all "answer generation (AG)" runs need to be submitted by August 10)

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  17 Aug

• VQA: Testing data available for multiple choice (MC) task.

  31 Aug

• VQA: Submission page open. Submit "multiple choice (MC)" runs Here

  14 Sep

• VQA: Submission page closes (all "multiple choice (MC)" runs need to be submitted by September 14)

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  28 Sep

• VQA: AG and MC tasks results are released back to teams.

  12 Oct

• Speaker proposals due at NIST

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   30 Oct

• Workshop Agenda available

   2 Nov

• TREC 2026 Workshop registration closes at 5:00 PM Washington, DC time

   9 Nov

• Workshop notebook papers due at NIST
• Copyright form due back to NIST (see Notebook papers for instructions)

  16 Nov - 20 Nov

• TREC 2026 workshop in Maryland, USA.

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   1 March 2027

• Final versions of TRECVID 2026 papers due at NIST