[Corpora-List] EVALITA 2009 Call for Interest

[Manuela Speranza]

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                                 EVALITA 2009

                 Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian

                               http://evalita.fbk.eu

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EVALITA 2009 - Call for Interest
October 2008


Following the success obtained by Evalita 2007 
(http://evalita.fbk.eu/2007),
we are pleased to announce Evalita 2009, the second evaluation campaign
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, on six tasks:
- Part of Speech Tagging
- Parsing
- Lexical Substitution
- Entity Recognition
- Anaphora Resolution
- Textual Entailment

As with other international evaluation campaigns, guidelines describing
the different tasks will be distributed among the participants. 
Participants
will also 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. The results of the evaluation will be disseminated at
the final workshop which will be organized in Reggio Emilia in conjunction
with AI*IA 2009 (to be confirmed).

More detailed information is available on the Evalita website at
http://evalita.fbk.eu.
To indicate your intention to participate in one or more tasks at 
Evalita 2009,
please go to the Call for Interest at the Evalita website and fill in 
the form.

Important dates (check for updates at http://evalita.fbk.eu)
1st  January   2009: on-line registration opens
1st  February 2009: development data available to participants
20th  May 2009: test data available; registration closes
1st  June 2009: system results due to organizers
15th  June 2009: assessment returned to participants
6 th  July 2009: technical reports due to organizers
September 2009: final workshop, Reggio Emilia (to be confirmed)

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

Task Organization:
- PoS-Tagging: Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi (Uni. Pisa)
- Parsing: Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo (Uni. 
Torino)
          Felice dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni 
(Uni. Pisa - ILC-CNR, Pisa)
- Lexical Substitution: Antonio Toral (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
- Entity Recognition: Luisa Bentivogli, Manuela Speranza (FBK-irst, 
Trento),
          Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi, Rachele Sprugnoli (CELCT, Trento)
- Anaphora Resolution: Massimo Poesio (Uni. Trento), Malvina Nissim, Fabio
          Tamburini (Uni. Bologna)
- Textual Entailment: Johan Bos (Uni. Roma "La Sapienza"), Marco 
Pennacchiotti
          (Saarland University), Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Uni. Roma "Tor 
Vergata")

Contact: Manuela Speranza, manspera at fbk.eu (FBK-irst, Trento)

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