[Corpora-List] Opening of CALBC Challenge II

[hornbostel CALBC]

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Dear list members, 	

The CALBC Challenge II is open (second and final cycle).

CALBC aims to integrate the annotations from different named entity 
recognition systems to create a large, annotated corpus for the 
automatic analysis of biomedical literature. Therefore your help is 
needed. Through the CALBC challenges, we gather community submissions to 
build a large, annotated corpus holding about one million Medline 
immunology-related abstracts. Participation is open to any team that is 
willing to submit annotations obtained with their own named entity 
recognition system. The annotations of all participating systems will be 
automatically integrated with additional metadata to develop a 'Silver 
Standard Corpus' (SSC). The SSC will therefore have a broader scope than 
any single system. The scale of the corpus means that manual curation is 
not possible and all harmonisation steps have to be performed automatically.

For further information on the CALBC project, see www.calbc.eu   
For a Challenge overview, see http://flyer.calbc.eu

Participants must sign up to the CALBC mailing list by sending a request 
to public at calbc.eu. The sign-up confirmation also contains the 
participant log-in details for the submission site where the challenge 
data can be downloaded. Participants will receive an assessment of their 
results against the silver standard corpus (SSC) through a fully 
automated analysis.  There will be a workshop in March 2011 to discuss 
the challenge outcome.

Schedule:
September 13th 2010: CALBC Challenge II started
October 19th 2010: CALBC training data available
December 15th, 2010: Challenge II closes
March 2011: Second and final CALBC Workshop
June 30th, 2011: Final harmonized corpus available

We hope you have the time and capacity to take part and wish you all 
good luck!

Kind regards,

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, U.K

Kerstin Hornbostel
Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab


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