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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>***Apologies for multiple postings. Please distribute to whom may be concerned.**** </span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'>================================================<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span lang=EN-US>Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'>================================================<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt'>QA4MRE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>held in conjunction with CLEF 2011,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>September 19-22, Amsterdam, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>NEW!! One Pilot Task added<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>We are pleased to announce that beside the Main task, one pilot tasks is offered this year at QA4MRE 2011:<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas;color:windowtext'>Processing Modality and Negation for Machine Reading<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>In this task we aim at evaluating whether systems understand extra-propositional aspects of meaning like modality and negation. Modality is a grammatical category that allows to express aspects related to the attitude of the speaker towards her statements. Modality understood in a broader sense is also related to the expression of certainty, factuality, and evidentiality. Negation is a grammatical category that allows to change the truth value of a proposition. Modality and negation interact to express extra-propositional aspects of meaning. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>More info at: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:Consolas'><a href="http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/BiographTA/qa4mre.html"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/BiographTA/qa4mre.html</span></a></span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>===============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Teams are solicited for QA4MRE at CLEF 2011<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn1' href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference>[1]</span></a>, an evaluation campaign of Machine Reading systems through Question Answering and Reading Comprehension Tests. Systems should be able to extract knowledge from given texts and use this knowledge to answer questions. The task focuses on the reading of single documents, where correct answers require some inference and the consideration of previously acquired background knowledge. For more information visit </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://celct.fbk.eu/QA4MRE/"><span lang=EN-US>http://celct.fbk.eu/QA4MRE/</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>. <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'>The results of the evaluation campaign will be disseminated at the final workshop which will be organized in conjunction with the CLEF 2011 conference, 19–22 September in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Test data<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Participating systems will be given two or three topics as input. Associated with each topic, the organization will provide a reference corpus consisting of about 30,000 un-annotated documents related to the topic. These documents should be used by the systems to acquire the reading capabilities and the background knowledge needed to answer a test on the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>The test for each topic will consist of one single document and a set of multiple choice questions having five options each. The participating systems will be required to answer the questions by choosing in each case one answer from the five alternatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Languages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>Document collections and reading tests will be available in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and Romanian.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>The document collections created in the different languages will be available to all participants. Thus, the learning of knowledge could be in one language or several.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>The tests will be exactly the same in all languages, using parallel translations.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Evaluation will be performed automatically by comparing the answers given by systems to the ones given by humans. No manual assessment will be required.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Each test will receive an evaluation score between 0 and 1 using c@1. This measure, already tried in previous CLEF QA Tracks, encourages systems to reduce the number of incorrect answers and maintain the number of correct ones by leaving some questions unanswered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tentative Schedule<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Guidelines and Samples of tests: end of January;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Release of topics and reference corpus: end of March;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Test set release: beginning of June;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Run submissions: middle of June;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Results to the participants: 1st of July;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Submission of Notebook Papers: according to the CLEF 2011 schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>General Coordination</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Anselmo Peņas, UNED NLP & IR Group, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Technical Coordination</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pamela Forner, CELCT, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Alvaro Rodrigo, UNED NLP & IR Group, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Richard Sutcliffe, University of Limerick, Ireland <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Technical Staff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Corina Forascu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Caroline Sporleder, University of Saarland, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Programme Committee</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ken Barker, University of Texas at Austin, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> 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lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dan Moldovan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Emanuele Pianta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, and CELCT, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>John Prager, IBM, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hoa Trang Dang, NIST, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dan Tufis, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>================================</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Pamela Forner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>CELCT (web: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="http://www.celct.it/" title="http://www.celct.it"><span lang=EN-GB>www.celct.it</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Via alla Cascata 56/c </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>38100 Povo – TRENTO –</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><ns0:country-region><ns0:place><span style='color:navy'>Italy</span></ns0:place></ns0:country-region><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>email: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><a href="mailto:forner@celct.it" title="mailto:fordyce@celct.it"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>forner@celct.it</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><br></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>tel.: +39 0461 314 804</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>fax: +39 0461 314 846</span><span 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