27.410, Calls: Computational Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 27.410, Calls: Computational Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:12:58
From: Mans Hulden [mans.hulden at colorado.edu]
Subject: SIGMORPHON 2016 Shared Task: Morphological Reinflection

 
Full Title: SIGMORPHON 2016 Shared Task: Morphological Reinflection 

Date: 11-Aug-2016 - 11-Aug-2016
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Mans Hulden
Meeting Email: mans.hulden at colorado.edu
Web Site: http://www.sigmorphon.org/sharedtask 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Finnish (fin)
                     German (deu)
                     Russian (rus)
                     Spanish (spa)
                     Turkish (tur)

Call Deadline: 20-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

Morphological analysis and generation of previously unseen word forms is a
fundamental problem in NLP, the accuracy of which is crucial for the success
of many downstream tasks. In 2016, SIGMORPHON is hosting a shared task on
morphological reinflection. In the shared task, participants will build a
system that can learn to solve reinflection problems for 10 different
languages. All submitted systems will be compared on a held-out test set.
Participants will be invited to describe their systems in a short paper for
the SIGMORPHON 2016 workshop.


Call for Papers:

Morphological analysis and generation of previously unseen word forms is a
fundamental problem in NLP, the accuracy of which is crucial for the success
of many downstream tasks.  Learning morphological inflection patterns from
labeled data is a current challenge that is addressed by a number of papers
published in various ACL-related venues.

To bring together researchers working on inference problems related to
morphology, SIGMORPHON is hosting a shared task on morphological reinflection
in 2016, held at ACL in Berlin, Germany.

In the shared task, participants will build systems that can learn to solve
different reinflection problems using labeled data. An example of English
reinflection is the conversion of ''ran'' to its present participle,
''running''. Specifically, a participant system needs to be able to (1)
produce inflected word forms from a lemma, and (2) generate a specific
inflected word form from some other labeled inflected form, and (3) generate
inflected word forms from unlabeled word forms of the same lemma. All
submitted systems will be compared on a held-out test set. Participation in
all three tasks is not mandatory.

Participants will also be invited to describe their system in a short paper
for the SIGMORPHON 2016 workshop. Additionally, the task organizers will write
an overview paper with descriptions and summaries of the different approaches
taken and their results.

Questions about the shared task can be sent to
sigmorphon-shared-task-2016-organizers at googlegroups.com. More information
about the task, including training and development data sets for the target
languages of varying morphological complexity is available at the shared task
home page:

http://www.sigmorphon.org/sharedtask

Please sign up for the shared task Google group for more information, even if
you are not sure about participating yet! Just send an email to
sigmorphon-2016-shared-task at googlegroups.com and ask to join.

Important dates: 

December 20, 2015 - Training data, evaluation scripts and baseline system
released
April 1, 2016 - Training data for surprise languages released
April 15, 2015 - Deadline for registration to participate (for leaderboard)
April 20, 2016 - Test input data released; participants run systems
April 25, 2016 - System outputs collected
April 30, 2016 - System results to participants
May 22, 2016 - Shared task system papers due
June 5, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance
June 22, 2016 - Camera-ready paper due
August 11, 2016 - Workshop

Shared Task Organizers:

Ryan Cotterell (Johns Hopkins University)
Mans Hulden (University of Colorado)
Christo Kirov (Johns Hopkins University)
John Sylak-Glassman (Johns Hopkins University)




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