CoNLL Shared Task 2007
Second and Final Call for Participation
The shared task of the Conference on Computational Natural
Language Learning (CoNLL) 2007 will for the second year
running be devoted to dependency parsing. Unlike in 2006,
there will be two separate tracks:
1. Multilingual Track: The first track of the shared task
will be organized in the same way as the 2006 task (see
http://nextens.uvt.nl/~conll/) with annotated training
and test data from a wide range of languages, which should
be processed with one and the same parsing system. The
languages this year will be Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese,
Czech, English, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, and Turkish.
2. Domain Adaptation Track: The second track of the shared
task will investigate techniques for adapting current parsing
technologies to domains outside of the data from which they
were trained. The single language for this track will be
English and the data will consist of 1) a large annotated
training set of news related text, 2) a small annotated
development data set of non-news text, 3) one or more small
test data sets of non-news text, 4) large unlabeled
corpora extracted from the domains of the training,
development and test data.
The shared task will be part of the joint EMNLP-CoNLL conference
to be held in conjunction with ACL-07 in Prague, June 28-30, 2007.
The important dates for the shared task are as follows (please
note that some dates have been shifted slightly since the first
call):
Registration of participants January 20, 2007
Release of training (and development) data January 29, 2007
Release of test data March 26, 2007
Submission of test runs March 30, 2007
Submission of papers April 14, 2007
Notification of acceptance April 25, 2007
Submission of final version of papers May 9, 2007
EMNLP-CoNLL conference June 28-30, 2007
In order to receive future calls and other information about
the shared task, participants should register their intent to
participate, in either or both of the two tracks, by sending
an e-mail to conll07st@uvt.nl. Although the deadline for
registration is not until January 20, 2007, we recommend
participants to register as early as possible, in order not
to miss any information.
The website for the CoNLL shared task 2007 will be
http://depparse.uvt.nl/depparse-wiki/SharedTaskWebsite.
This site will be updated continually, so please make sure
to check it out from time to time.
Questions about the CoNLL shared task 2007 can be sent to
conll07st@uvt.nl.
The organizers
Joakim Nivre
Johan Hall
Sandra Kübler
Ryan McDonald
Jens Nilsson
Sebastian Riedel
Deniz Yuret
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