20.1088, FYI: RTE-5: Call for Participation

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Subject: 20.1088, FYI: RTE-5: Call for Participation

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Date: 25-Mar-2009
From: Danilo Giampiccolo < giampiccolo at celct.it >
Subject: RTE-5: Call for Participation
 

	
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:17:24
From: Danilo Giampiccolo [giampiccolo at celct.it]
Subject: RTE-5: Call for Participation

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RTE-5: Call for Participation

http://www.nist.gov/tac/2009/RTE/RTE5_CFP.txt

FIFTH RECOGNIZING TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT CHALLENGE AT TAC 2009
			(http://www.nist.gov/tac/2009/RTE/index.html)            

              
Since 2004 RTE Challenges have promoted research in textual entailment
recognition as a task that captures major semantic inference needs across
many natural language processing applications, such as Question Answering
(QA), Information Retrieval (IR), Information Extraction (IE), and
multi-document summarization. Over the years the encouraging progresses,
both in term of number of researchers involved and results achieved, have
spurred to further investigate the phenomena involved by innovating the
challenge every year and moving it to more realistic scenarios. 

Capitalizing on the very good response obtained so far, the RTE Organizing
Committee is glad to launch the Fifth Recognizing Textual Entailment
Challenge, proposed for the second year as a track of Textual Analysis
Conference.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
 
Registration deadline:				

Pilot Development set release			3 April

Main Development Set Release: 			29 May

Main and Pilot Test Set Release: 		2 September 2009

Submissions:					9 September 2009

Release of individual evaluated results: 	18 September 2009
			


TRACK COORDINATORS AND ORGANIZERS:

Luisa Bentivogli, CELCT and FBK, Italy (Track coordinator, bentivo at fbk.it)
Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Hoa Trang Dang, NIST, USA 
Danilo Giampiccolo, CELCT, Italy (Track coordinator, giampiccolo at celct.it)
Bernardo Magnini, FBK, Italy 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





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