Corpora: Final Call for Participation -- IREX (Japanese IR & IE contest)

Satoshi Sekine (sekine@cs.nyu.edu)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:26:04 -0500 (EST)

This is the final call for participation of IREX
(IR&IE contest for Japanese language).
We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement.

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IREX
Information Retrieval and Extraction Exercise
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/irex/index-e.html

(IR & IE Contest for Japanese language)

<Schedule>
March 15, 1999: Registration deadline
April 5-12, 1999: IR Evaluation
April 13, 1999: Freeze your NE system
May 13-17, 1999: NE evaluation (test documents will be selected
from April 14-May 12, 1999 articles)
September 1-3, 1999: Workshop

<Original Data>
You can retrieve IREX Package
(ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/sekine/IREX990214.tar.gz)
which includes
- IR & NE task definitions
- IR dryrun topic and answer (6 topics; about 1000 judges each)
- NE dryrun data (36 articles) training data (46 articles)
- NE CRL data (10,000 sentences)
- IR tools
- NE tools

<Mainichi Shinbun (newspaper)>
If you would like to participate to IR or to get the NE data,
you have to have Mainichi Shinbun CDROM (94 and 95).
See the homepage for the detail.

<Language>
Most documents are writen in Japanese.