Corpora: CFP: Senseval-2 -- Toulouse -- July 5-6

[Phil Edmonds]

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       *** DO YOU HAVE A WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEM? ***

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                              SENSEVAL-2

                   Second International Workshop on
             Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems

                    www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2

                       JULY 5-6, 2001, TOULOUSE

                         An ACL SIGLEX Event
  Also supported by EURALEX, ELSNET, and EPSRC (grant GR/RO2337/01)

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The purpose of SENSEVAL is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
such programs with respect to different words, different varieties of
language, and different languages.

THE COMPETITION

Do you have a word sense disambiguation system?  Is it the best one?
You can find out by competing in Senseval-2.  The competition window
runs from May 18 - June 18, so there is still plenty of time to
participate. See the schedule on the website for details
(http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2).  You must register your system
first (if you haven't already).


WORKSHOP:    5-6 July 2001 -  Toulouse, France

The SENSEVAL-2 Workshop will be held on July 5-6, in conjunction with
ACL/EACL 2001 in Toulouse, France.  Its purpose is to examine the
results of the competition, to discuss the state-of-the-art in
sense-tagging, and to suggest directions for the future of SENSEVAL.

 * Register here: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
 * Early registration: by May 24 (lower registration fee)
 * Late registration: May 25 - June 24
 * After June 24th, registration will be on site only

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM  (as of May 22)

Day 1 (July 5)  Senseval-2 Project Meeting

 - is open to only those directly involved: competitors, organizers,
   sponsors, etc. (email senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk if you're not sure.)

Day 2 (July 6)  Senseval-2 Workshop

 - open to all

 Session 1: Introduction and summary of results

 Session 2: Panel: Making sense distinctions

            Do systems have problems with the same sense distinctions
            that people do - or which examples will the systems never
            get - where will the glass ceiling be?

 Lunch

 Session 3: Panel: Using WSD in real applications

            Panelists from companies working in Machine Translation,
            Information Extraction and Information Retrieval will
            address the questions:
              - Why does your company use/not use current WSD
                technology?
              - What aspects of current/recent WSD work look
                helpful/unhelpful to the needs of your company's
                applications?

 Session 4: Panel: Standardizing and linking Wordnets

            Standardizing and linking Wordnets with particular
            attention to word sense inventory, representation, and
            distinction.

            Panelists: Christiane Fellbaum, Nicoletta Calzolari,
                       Philip Resnik, Julio Gonzalo, Karel Pala.

 Session 5: Wrap-up
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CONTACTS

Website:

  www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2

Discussion list:

  For current information and discussion join senseval-discuss at sharp.co.uk
  (send mail to Phil Edmonds <phil at sharp.co.uk> to join/leave)


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Scott Cotton         University of Pennsylvania
Phil Edmonds         Sharp Laboratories of Europe
Adam Kilgarriff      ITRI, University of Brighton
Martha Palmer        University of Pennsylvania

For questions about SENSEVAL-2 please
email to senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk