25.1578, Confs: Computational Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 25.1578, Confs: Computational Linguistics/UK

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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:27:33
From: Elena Cabrio [elena.cabrio at inria.fr]
Subject: 4th Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data

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4th Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data 
Short Title: QALD-4 

Date: 15-Sep-2014 - 18-Sep-2014 
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom 
Contact: Elena Cabrio 
Contact Email: elena.cabrio at inria.fr 
Meeting URL: http://greententacle.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~cunger/qald/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The test phase for the 4th Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-4) is now on.

In the context of the question answering lab at CLEF 2014 (http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/), it comprises three open challenges:

- Multilingual question answering over DBpedia
- Biomedical question answering over interlinked datasets
- Hybrid question answering over DBpedia

Training and test data as well as more information about the challenge is available on the website:

http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald/

Results have to be submitted until May 1, via the online evaluation tool.

The schedule is as follows:

Release of test data: April 1, 2014
Submission deadline:  May 1, 2014
Release of results:   May 8, 2014
Workshop:             September, 2014

We cordially invite everyone working on question answering over linked data to participate, and look forward to another exciting challenge!

Organizers:

Christina Unger
Philipp Cimiano
Vanessa Lopez
Elena Cabrio
Axel Ngonga
Sebastian Walter
Corina Forascu 

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