<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>[Apologies for duplication]<br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>Call for Participation SEMEVAL 2014 Task 10 -- Multilingual STS, English subtask<br><br>SEMEVAL 2014 workshop will be co-located with COLING 2014 in Dublin Ireland, <a href="http://www.coling-2014.org/">http://www.coling-2014.org/</a><br><br>Continuing on with the semantic textual similarity (STS) task from SEMEVAL 2012 and 2013 *SEM Shared Task, we are announcing the English STS as a subtask in the SEMEVAL Task 10 Multilingual STS. This year's STS-EN 2014 is an expanded version of the 2013 task with more varied data sets. Please check out the task's webpage at <a href="http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2014/task10/">http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2014/task10/</a> for more details.<br><br></div><div>Important dates to note<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Trial data ready October 30, 2013 (released)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Training data ready December 15, 2013 (released)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Test data ready March 10, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Evaluation start March 15, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Evaluation end March 30, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Paper submission due April 30, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Paper reviews due May 30, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Camera ready due June 30, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• SemEval workshop August 23-30, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>Spread the word!</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mona T. Diab, PhD<br><br>Associate Professor</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Department of Computer Science </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">School of Eng. & Applied Science</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The George Washington University</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mtdiab">http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mtdiab</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Tel.: 202 994.8109</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></span></div></span></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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