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<b>Call for Participation</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><b style="font-family:arial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<b style="font-family:arial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Shared Task on Chinese G</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">rammatical Error Diagnosis</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></b><br>
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<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ICCE-2014 NLP-TEA Workshop (</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Nov. 30- Dec. 4 in Nara, Japan</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">)</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">CFL shared task webpage: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nlptea1/shared-task" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/nlptea1/shared-task</a><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NLP-TEA workshop website</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">: </span><a href="http://ir.itc.ntnu.edu.tw/icce2014/nlptea/index.html" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://ir.itc.ntnu.edu.tw/icce2014/nlptea/index.html</a><br>
</div><div>ICCE-2014 <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">: <a href="http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/" target="_blank">http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div>
</div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(40,55,105);line-height:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">China’s growing global influence has prompted a surge of interest in learning Mandarin </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL)</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, and this trend is expected to continue. However, whereas many computer-assisted learning tools have been developed for learning English, support for CFL learners is relatively sparse, especially in terms of </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">tools designed to automatically evaluate learners’ responses. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">The goal of this shared task is developing the computer-assisted tools to detect </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">several kinds of grammatical errors, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;font-style:italic;background-color:transparent">i.e.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">, <b>redundant word, missing word, word disorder, and word selection</b>. The input sentence contains one of defined error types. The developed tool should indicate which kind of error type is embedded in the given sentence. If the input contains no grammatical errors, the tool should return: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;font-style:italic;background-color:transparent"><b>sid, correct</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">. The output format should be </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;font-style:italic;background-color:transparent"><b>sid, error_type</b> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">if the input contains a grammatical error. Examples are shown as follows: </span></p>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:24px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"><u>Example 1</u><u>: </u><br>
Input: (sid=B2-1447-6</span><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">) 希望沒有人再被食物中毒<br></span><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> output: </span><span style="background-color:transparent">B2-1447-6</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Redundant</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><u style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Example 2</u><span style="line-height:1.5;text-decoration:underline;background-color:transparent">: <br>
</span><font style="line-height:24px"><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> Input: (sid=</span></font><span style="line-height:24px;background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">C1-1876-2</span><span style="line-height:1.5">) </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"><font style="line-height:24px">對社會國家</font><font style="line-height:24px">(有)</font><span style="line-height:24px">不同的影響<br>
</span></span><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> output: </span><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">C1-1876-2 Missing</span></span></font></font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><u style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent">Example 3</u><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent">: <br>
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> Input: (sid=A2-0775-2</span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">) 我起床很早<br>
</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> output: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">A2-0775-2 Disorder<br>
</span></span><u style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent">Example 4</u><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent">: <br>
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> Input: (sid=B1-0110-2</span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">) </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">我會穿著一個黃色的襯衫<br>
</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:27px;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">output: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:27px;background-color:transparent">B1-0110-2</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:27px;background-color:transparent"> Selection</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px"><br>
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<b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Important Dates</font></b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:27px;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Registration open for the shared task: May 5, 2014</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:27px;background-color:transparent">Release of tagged learners' corpus: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">June 12, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px;background-color:transparent">Registration close for the shared task: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px;background-color:transparent">July 15, 2014</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Release of dry run data for participants to familiarize themselves with </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">the testing process: July 21, 2014</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Release of test data for formal evaluation: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">August 4, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Return of the output for the test data for evaluation: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">August 6, 2014</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Announcement of the evaluation results for all participants: August 8, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Report of the developed techniques and their results from the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">participants: August 18, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Feedback to the report from the organizers: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">September 2, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Final camera-ready report: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">September 10, 2014</span></font></li>
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<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Liang-Chih Yu (Yuen-Ze University) </font></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15.600000381469727px">Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan University)</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15.600000381469727px">Li-Ping Chang (National Taiwan Normal University)</span></font></li></ul></div></div>
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