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<div><br></div><div>Call for Participation SEMEVAL 2014 Task 10 -- Multilingual STS: English & Spanish</div><div><br></div><div>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></div>
<div><br></div><div>Building on the semantic textual similarity (STS) task from SEMEVAL 2012 and 2013 *SEM Shared Task, this year's STS brings a multilingual flair, as we announce the SEMEVAL Task 10: Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity. This task features separate tracks for English and Spanish, yet teams are encouraged to participate in both evaluations. STS-EN 2014 is an expanded version of the 2013 task with more varied data sets. STS-ES 2014 follows the same setup as its sister subtask, yet it introduces a new layer of difficulty as we shift focus to Spanish and explore the challenges posed by the lower availability of electronic resources in this language (when compared to English).</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Important dates to note</div>
<div> • Trial data ready October 30, 2013 (released)</div><div><br></div><div> • Training data ready December 15, 2013 (released)</div><div><br></div><div> • Test data ready March 10, 2014</div>
<div><br></div><div> • Evaluations start March 15, 2014</div><div><br></div><div> • Evaluations end March 30, 2014</div><div><br></div><div> • Paper submission due April 30, 2014</div>
<div><br></div><div> • Paper reviews due May 30, 2014</div><div><br></div><div> • Camera ready due June 30, 2014</div><div><br></div><div> • SemEval workshop August 23-30, 2014</div>
<div><br></div><div>Spread the word!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organizers:</div><div>* STS English: Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Weiwei Guo, and German Rigau.</div><div>* STS Spanish: Carmen Banea, Claire Cardie, Rada Mihalcea, and Janyce Wiebe.</div>
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