[Corpora-List] Unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes -- Challenge 2005

From: Mikko Kurimo (mikkok@james.hut.fi)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 11:56:23 MET DST

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    (I believe this competition call may interest some people in corpora.)

    http://www.cis.hut.fi/morphochallenge2005/
    email: morphochallenge2005@james.hut.fi

    Unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes -- Challenge 2005

    Part of the EU Network of Excellence PASCAL Challenge
    Program. Participation is open to all.

    The objective of the Challenge is to design a statistical machine
    learning algorithm that segments words into the smallest
    meaning-bearing units of language, morphemes. Ideally, these are basic
    vocabulary units suitable for different tasks, such as text
    understanding, machine translation, information retrieval, and
    statistical language modeling.

    The scientific goals are:

        * To learn of the phenomena underlying word construction in
    natural languages
        * To discover approaches suitable for a wide range of languages
        * To advance machine learning methodology

    The results will be presented in the Challenge workshop in April.

    Program Committee:

    Levent Arslan, Boğaziçi University
    Samy Bengio, IDIAP
    Tolga Cilogu, Middle-East Technical University
    John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
    Kadri Hacioglu, Colorado University
    Chun Yu Kit, City University of Hong Kong
    Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University
    Jan Nouza,Technical University of Liberec
    Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology
    Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College

    Please read the rules and see the schedule. The datasets are available
    for download.

    We are looking forward to an interesting competition!

        Mikko Kurimo, Mathias Creutz and Krista Lagus
        Neural Networks Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology
        The organizers

    http://www.cis.hut.fi/morphochallenge2005/
    email: morphochallenge2005@james.hut.fi

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