[Corpora-List] EVALITA 2007 Second Call for Participation

From: Manuela Speranza (manspera@itc.it)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2007 - 14:29:42 MET

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                               EVALITA 2007

                   Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian

                          http://evalita.itc.it

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    EVALITA 2007 - Second Call for Participation

    We are pleased to announce that the registration to EVALITA 2007
    is now open. We take this opportunity to launch a second call for
    participation.

    EVALITA is a new initiative devoted to the evaluation of Natural
    Language Processing tools for Italian.
    The general objective of EVALITA is to promote the development of
    language technologies for the Italian language, providing a shared
    framework where different systems and approaches can be evaluated
    in a consistent manner.

    We invite participation, both from academic institutions and
    industrial organizations, in five tasks, all for Italian:

    - Part of Speech Tagging
    - Parsing
    - Word Sense Disambiguation
    - Temporal Expression Recognition and Normalization
    - Named Entity Recognition

    As with other international evaluation campaigns, participants
    will be provided with training data and will have the chance to
    test their systems with the evaluation metrics and procedures to
    be used in the formal evaluation.
    More detailed information will be provided in the guidelines of each
    single task (available after mid march) and on the EVALITA website:
    http://evalita.itc.it

    The results of the evaluation will be disseminated at the final
    workshop, which will be organized in conjunction with AI*IA 2007
    and will take place on September 10th at Villa Mondragone, a XVI
    century "Villa Tuscolana" located between Frascati and Monte Porzio
    Catone, only 20 km from Rome.
    Participants will be asked to write a technical report which will
    be published in the workshop proceedings and will have the
    opportunity to describe their systems at the final workshop.

    Participation to EVALITA is free of charge. The final workshop
    will have a registration fee due to organization costs.
    In order to register to one or more of the EVALITA 2007 tasks,
    please fill the on-line form at:
    http://evalita.itc.it/registration.html

    Timeline

    15th Feb 2007: on-line registration opens
    1st March 2007: development data and detailed guidelines
                     available to participants
    20th May 2007: test data available; registration closes
    1st June 2007: system results due to organizers
    15th June 2007: assessment returned to participants
    1st Aug 2007: technical reports due to organizers
    10th Sept 2007: final workshop, Rome

    Coordination:
    Bernardo Magnini (ITC-irst) and Amedeo Cappelli (ISTI-CNR and CELCT)

    Task Organization:
    - PoS Tagging: Fabio Tamburini (Uni. Bologna)
    - Parsing: Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo
       (Uni. Torino) and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Uni. Roma "Tor Vergata")
    - Word Sense Disambiguation: Nicoletta Calzolari and Francesca
       Bertagna (CNR-ILC, Pisa)
    - Temporal Expressions: Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi and Rachele
       Sprugnoli (CELCT, Trento)
    - Named Entity Recognition: Manuela Speranza (ITC-irst, Trento)

    Local Organization:
    Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Uni. Roma "Tor Vergata")

    Contact: Manuela Speranza - manspera@itc.it

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