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</strong><strong>Final call for participation and train data
release</strong><strong>
for pilot on typed similarity<br>
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Textual
Similarity (STS)</strong><strong></strong></big><br>
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*SEM 2013 SHARED TASK</strong><br>
<font color="#cc0000"><b>REGISTRATION CLOSES FEB. 15<br>
NEW: TRAIN DATA FOR PILOT ON TYPED SIMILARITY</b></font><br>
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normal;">STS
was selected by the <b><a
href="http://clic2.cimec.unitn.it/starsem2013/">*SEM
conference</a></b>
as the<b> <a
href="http://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/sem-shared-task-2013">2013
shared
task</a></b>. <br>
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style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;">Following
the success of the 2012 task on STS (</span><a
href="http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/proc/pdf/STARSEM-SEMEVAL051.pdf"
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pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
13px; line-height: normal;">Agirre
et al. 2012</a><span mce_style="color: #222222; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;">),
with 35 teams and 88 runs, we solicit participation in the
second STS
task, which will held at *SEM 2013, co-located with <a
href="http://naacl2013.naacl.org/"
mce_href="http://naacl2013.naacl.org/" style="color:
rgb(27, 87, 177); font-weight: normal;">NAACL-2013</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>conference in
Atlanta.</span></p>
<strong mce_style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
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Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"
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normal;">STS
in 2013</strong><br mce_style="color: #222222; font-family:
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<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
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<span mce_style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,
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normal;" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;">Participants
will submit systems that examine the degree of semantic
equivalence
between two sentences. The goal of the STS task is to create
a unified
framework for the evaluation of semantic textual similarity
modules and
to characterize their impact on NLP applications. We
particularly
encourage submissions from the lexical semantics,
summarization,
machine translation evaluation metric, and textual
entailment
communities.</span><br mce_style="color: #222222;
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<br mce_style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
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style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
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<span mce_style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,
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normal;" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
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normal;">The
task will follow a similar design as the SemEval pilot<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
href="http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2012/task6/"
mce_href="http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2012/task6/"
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font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; cursor:
pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
13px; line-height: normal;">last
year</a><span mce_style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
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normal;">,
but instead of providing train/test data from the same
datasets, we
will provide all the 2012 data as training data, and the
test data will
be drawn from related but different datasets. This setting
is more
realistic, and the teams which prefer to train/test on the
same
datasets can perform experiments using the 2012 data.</span><br
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font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">There
will be two tasks this year:</span></p>
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font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height:
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<li style="padding-left: 30px; background-image:
url(http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/templates/ja_purity/images/bullet.gif);
line-height: 21.6px; position: static; z-index: auto;
background-position: 18px 8px;"><span style="font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span
style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">The core
STS task</span></span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px; background-image:
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line-height: 21.6px; position: static; z-index: auto;
background-position: 18px 8px;"><span style="font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span
style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">A pilot
task on
typed-similarity between semi-structured records</span></span></li>
</ul>
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background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><span style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Core
task</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;
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text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); position: static;
z-index: auto;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;"></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
12.8px; line-height: normal;">Given
two sentences, s1 and s2, participants will quantifiably
inform us on
how similar s1 and s2 are, resulting in a similarity score.
Participants will also provide a confidence score indicating
their
confidence level for the result returned for each pair. The
output of
participant systems will be compared to the manual scores,
which range
from 5 (semantic equivalence) to 0 (no relation).</span></p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
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background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><span
style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;
line-height: normal;">The test data will
include the following datasets:</span></span></p>
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rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height:
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url(http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/templates/ja_purity/images/bullet.gif);
line-height: 21.6px; background-position: 18px 8px;"><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;
line-height: normal;">Paraphrase
sentence pairs</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px; background-image:
url(http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/templates/ja_purity/images/bullet.gif);
line-height: 21.6px; position: static; z-index: auto;
background-position: 18px 8px;"><span style="font-size:
12.8px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MT
evaluation pairs including those from HyTER graphs and
GALE HTER data</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px; background-image:
url(http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/templates/ja_purity/images/bullet.gif);
line-height: 21.6px; position: static; z-index: auto;
background-position: 18px 8px;"><span style="font-size:
12.8px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gloss
pairs</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Please
check
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/data">http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/data</a>
for the trial data and details on the core task. No new train
data will be released in 2013. The trial data contains all
2012 data.</span><br>
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rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
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background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><strong style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">Pilot
task on typed-similarity</strong></h2>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.6px; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); position: static;
z-index: auto;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;">In
addition we will hold a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>pilot
task
on typed-similarity</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>between
semi-structured records. The types of similarity to be
studied include
location, author, people involved, time, events or actions,
subject,
description.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;">Please
check<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;"><a href="http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/data"
target="_blank" style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); text-decoration:
underline; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer;">http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sts/data</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for data and details
on this
pilot task. <b><font color="#cc0000">New: train data for
the pilot
task was just released, including tool for visualizing
pairs. </font></b><br>
</span></p>
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UI',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18.4px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.6px; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><strong style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Evaluation</strong></h2>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.6px; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); position: static;
z-index: auto;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;">After
in-house theoretical and empirical analysis, we have
selected Pearson
as the main evaluation metric. The core task will be
evaluated
according to the weighted mean across the evaluation
datasets. The
pilot task will be evaluated according to the mean across
the several
similarity types.</span></p>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.8px; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong
mce_style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
normal;" style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;">Open
source pipeline for STS <br>
</strong></p>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.8px; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;">An
open source pipeline for STS will be made available
shortly. Strong
open-source baselines like DKPro can be found in the STS
wiki <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/wiki/STS">http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/wiki/STS</a>.<br>
</span></span></p>
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style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
line-height: normal;"></span></span><strong
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vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
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1: Start of evaluation period<br>
Mar 15: End of evaluation period (23:59, UTC-11)</span></p>
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