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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Apologies
for multiple postings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>ResPubliQA exercise</span></b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Consolas'> at the </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>MULTILINGUAL QUESTION ANSWERING
TRACK AT CLEF 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>NEW:
The Final Guidelines of the ResPubliQA exercize are now available on the
website!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>We
are glad to announce that a NEW EXERCISE will be proposed this year within the
Question Answering track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>For
more information and updates visit the new ResPubliQA website at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'>http://celct.isti.cnr.it/ResPubliQA/index.php<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:CMR10'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>We invite participation, both
from academic institutions and industrial organizations, on this new task. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Guidelines describing
the task are distributed among the participants and are downloadable from the
ResPubliQA website.<span style='color:blue'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><a
href="http://celct.isti.cnr.it/ResPubliQA/Documents"><span lang=EN-US>http://celct.isti.cnr.it/ResPubliQA/Documents</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>Training data </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>have also been made available to </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>participants in order to test the
systems with procedures to be used in the formal evaluation campaign. </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'>http://celct.isti.cnr.it/ResPubliQA/Downloads</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>The results of the evaluation will be
disseminated at the final workshop which will be organized in Corfu in
conjunction with ECDL 2009.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Consolas;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:windowtext'>ResPubliQA 2009:
TASK OVERVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas'>TASK DESCRIPTION: Systems receive natural language questions as
input, and must return one paragraph containing the answer from the document
collection. No exact answer is required neither multiple responses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas'>DOCUMENT COLLECTION: The subset of JRC-Acquis documents that have
parallel aligned translations into all the languages involved will be used,
namely Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
and Spanish. The sub-collection is available at the ResPubliQA website <a
href="http://celct.isti.cnr.it/ResPubliQA/Downloads"><span lang=EN-GB
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>http://celct.isti.cn</span><span
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>r.it/ResPubliQA/Downloads</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='margin-left:46.2pt;text-align:justify'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas'>QUESTIONS: a pool o</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Consolas;color:windowtext'>f</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Consolas'> 500 independent questions (factoid, definition,
reason, purpose and procedure) is provided<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;
mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>NO LIST questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Consolas'>N</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Consolas'>O</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Consolas'> topic related questions (questions linked to the same
topic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>NO NIL questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>ANSWERS: one of the
following two responses must be returned<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:35.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
.05pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>a) one
single paragraph containing the candidate answer. Multi-paragraph answers are
not considered in this task<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:35.4pt;text-align:justify'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>b) the string NOA to
indicate that the system prefers not to answer the question. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Systems that give no answers
(NOA) instead of wrong answers will be rewarded by the evaluation measure.
Answer Validation techniques (including Machine Learning) are expected to be
used for taking this final decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>LANGUAGES INVOLVED: Basque (EU),
Bulgarian (BG), Dutch (NL), English (EN), French (FR), German (DE), Italian
(IT), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO) and Spanish (ES).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>A monolingual English (EN) task
will also be activated this year, as both the exercize and the collection are
different from TREC. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Basque has been included
exclusively as a source language, as there is no Basque collection available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>SCHEDULE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<pre style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas;color:windowtext'>Registration Open: February 4, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas;color:windowtext'>Final Track Guidelines: February 2, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas;color:windowtext'>Test Sets Release: May 25, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Consolas;color:windowtext'>Submissions of Runs by Participants: June 5, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
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<p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
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2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='text-align:
justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>CLEF Workshop (in Corfu, Greece): 30 September – 02 October 2009<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>The participants will have 5 DAYS to upload their submissions, starting from the moment when the questions are downloaded, and not later than June 5, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>UNED (coordinator)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Spanish Distance Learning University, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Anselmo Peñas<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technology, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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font-family:Consolas'>Pamela Forner and Danilo Giampiccolo <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>University of Limerick, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Richard Sutcliffe<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romania<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Iñaki Alegria<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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