27.3115, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Japan

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Subject: 27.3115, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Japan

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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:03:22
From: Marcos Zampieri [marcos.zampieri at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Discriminating between Similar Languages Shared Task 2016

 
Full Title: Discriminating between Similar Languages Shared Task 2016 
Short Title: DSL 2016 

Date: 12-Dec-2016 - 12-Dec-2016
Location: Osaka, Japan 
Contact Person: Marcos Zampieri
Meeting Email: dsl.sharedtask at gmail.com
Web Site: http://ttg.uni-saarland.de/vardial2016/dsl2016.html 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

We are organizing the third edition of the Discriminating between Similar
Languages (DSL) shared task at the VarDial workshop co-located with COLING
2016. 

In the DSL shared task participants train systems to discriminate between
similar languages, language varieties, and dialects. This year we are dividing
the DSL Shared Task into two sub-tasks: discriminating between similar
languages and national language varieties and Arabic dialect identification.

Submissions:

After the shared task participants will be invited to submit a paper to the
VarDial workshop describing their findings (8 pages + 2 for references).
Submissions should be formatted according to the COLING template.

Dates:

- Training set release: August 2nd, 2016
- Test set release: August 29th, 2016
- Results submission due: August 31st, 2016
- Results announced: September 2nd, 2016
- Paper submission deadline: September 28th, 2016
- Acceptance Notification: October 14th, 2016
- Camera-ready versions: October 30th, 2016

DSL Shared Task Organizers:

Marcos Zampieri (Saarland University and DFKI, Germany)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Shervin Malmasi (Harvard Medical School, United States)
Liling Tan (Saarland University, Germany)
Nikola Ljubešić (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia and University of Zagreb,
Croatia)
Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

VarDial 2016 website: http://ttg.uni-saarland.de/vardial2016/


Call for Participation:

To participate in the shared task, please complete the registration form
available in the shared task website.

DSL Shared Task 2016: http://ttg.uni-saarland.de/vardial2016/dsl2016.html

The sub-tasks participants can register for are described in further detail
below.

1) Sub-task 1: Discriminating between similar languages and national language
varieties.

Languages Included:

- Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
- Malay and Indonesian
- Portuguese: Brazil and Portugal
- Spanish: Argentina, Mexico, and Spain
- French: France and Canada

Two test sets:

Test set A (in-domain): newspaper texts.
Test set B (out-of-domain): social media data.

2) Sub-task 2: Arabic dialect identification.

This year, for the first time we are including a sub-task on Arabic dialect
identification. As dialects are mostly used in conversational speech, in
sub-task 2 we will provide a dataset containing ASR transcripts.

We will release training and testing data for the following Arabic dialects:
Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine, and North-African, and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

Test set C: ASR texts from Arabic dialects.




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