*CLEF-QAst evaluation campaign *
*Second call for participation *
QAst is a new CLEF-QA track that aims to provide an evaluation framework
for Question Answering technology (currently just factual QA)
on speech transcripts, both manual and automatic. A detailed description
of this track is available here: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast
<http://www.lsi.upc.edu/%7Eqast>
The pilot track is organized jointly by the Technical University of
Catalonia (UPC <http://www.upc.es/>), the Evaluations and Language
resources Distribution Agency (ELDA <http://www.elda.org/>)
and the Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de
l'Ingénieur (LIMSI <http://www.limsi.fr/>).
The participation is free of charge.
Important dates:
30 January 2007: development set released
15 June 2007: evaluation set released
30 June 2007: submission deadline
20 August 2007: paper submission deadline
19-21 September 2007: workshop
If you are interested in participating please send an email to Jordi
Turmo (*turmo_AT_lsi.upc.edu*) with "QAst" in the subject line.
Best regards,
QAst organizers
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