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style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">CLEF-QAst
evaluation campaign <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Second
call for participation </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">QAst
is a new CLEF-QA track that aims to provide an evaluation framework
for Question Answering technology (currently just factual QA) <br>
on speech transcripts,
both manual and automatic. A detailed description of this track is
available
here: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a
href="http://www.lsi.upc.edu/%7Eqast"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The pilot track is organized jointly by the Technical University of
Catalonia
(<a href="http://www.upc.es/">UPC</a>), the Evaluations and Language
resources
Distribution Agency (<a href="http://www.elda.org/">ELDA</a>) <br>
and the Laboratoire
d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (<a
href="http://www.limsi.fr/">LIMSI</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The participation is free of charge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Important dates: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:date month="1" day="30" year="2007"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"> 30 January 2007</span></st1:date><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">: development set
released <br>
</span><st1:date month="6" day="15" year="2007"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">15 June 2007</span></st1:date><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">: evaluation set
released <br>
3</span><st1:date month="6" day="30" year="2007"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">0 June 2007</span></st1:date><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">: submission
deadline</span><br>
<st1:date month="8" day="20" year="2007"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="EN-GB"> 20 August 2007</span></st1:date><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">: paper submission
deadline<br>
19-21 September 2007: workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span
style=""></span>If you are interested in participating please send an
email to Jordi Turmo (<b>turmo_AT_lsi.upc.edu</b>)
with "QAst" in the subject line. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Best
regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">QAst
organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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