[CfP] Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025

[Tirthankar Ghosal]

*** 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 ***

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, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
• Tirthankar Ghosal, National Center for Computational Sciences | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
• Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA

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Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal

Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC)

National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

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Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI)

University of Tennessee Knoxville

United States

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