32.1480, Calls: Comp Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1480. Wed Apr 28 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1480, Calls: Comp Ling/Online

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:51:59
From: Ahmed AbuRa'ed [ahmed.aburaed at upf.edu]
Subject: FNS-2021 Shared Task: “Financial Narrative Summarisation”

 
Full Title: FNS-2021 Shared Task: “Financial Narrative Summarisation” 
Short Title: FNS 

Date: 15-Sep-2021 - 16-Sep-2021
Location: Lancaster, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Ahmed AbuRa'ed
Meeting Email: ahmed.aburaed at upf.edu
Web Site: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fns2021/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Structure-based Financial Narrative Summarisation (SB-FNS) aims to
demonstrate the value and challenges of applying automatic text summarisation
to financial text written in English, usually referred to as financial
narrative disclosures. The task dataset has been extracted from UK annual
reports published in PDF file format. The participants will be asked to
provide structured summaries, based on real-world, publicly available
financial annual reports of UK firms by extracting information from different
key sections. Participants will be asked to generate summaries that reflects
the analysis and assessment of the financial trend of the business over the
past year, as provided by annual reports. The evaluation of the summaries will
be performed using Rouge automatic metrics.

The shared task requires extraction from different key sections found in the
annual reports produced by UK firms listed on The London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Those sections are usually referred to as “narrative sections” or “front-end”
sections and they usually contain textual information and reviews by the
firm’s management and board of directors. Sections containing financial
statements in terms of tables and numbers are usually referred to as
“back-end” sections and are not supposed to be part of the narrative
summaries. UK annual reports are lengthy documents with around 80 pages on
average, some annual reports could span over more than 250 pages, making the
summarisation task a challenging but an academically interesting one.

For the purpose of this task we will ask the participants to produce one
summary for each annual report. The summary length should not exceed 1000
words. We advise that the summary is generated/extracted based on the
narrative sections, therefore the participating summarisers need to be trained
to detect narrative sections before creating the summaries. The MultiLing team
along with help from Barcelona’s UPF summarisation team will help in
organising the shared task including the generation of the evaluation results
and final proceedings. The MultiLing team have a rich experience in organising
summarisation tasks since 2011.


Call for participation: 

FNS-2021 Shared Task: “Financial Narrative Summarisation”, to be held at The
3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021)
Lancaster, United Kingdom [online] on 15 and 16 September 2021. A free 2 day
event.
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Participants should fill this short form (http://bit.ly/34xWCCp) to register
to the task of interest. Registration will result in subscription to the
task's mailing list. To register for multiple tasks, repeat the above
registration process for each task of interest.

Shared Task URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fns2021/    
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2021/
Participation Form: http://bit.ly/34xWCCp
_____________________________________________

Awards and Prizes:

The winning team for FNS 2021 shared task will receive an achievement
certificate and a money prize worth US$650. The team will also be given the
chance to present their work at the workshop.
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Important dates:
 - 1st Call for participation: 27 April 2021
 - 2nd Call for participation: 15 May 2021
 - Training set release: 1 June 2021
 - Blind test set release: 1 July 2021.
 - Systems submission 1 August 2021.
 - Release of results: 1 September 2021.
_____________________________________________

Contact:
For any questions on the shared task please contact us on:
fns.shared.task at gmail.com
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Shared Task Organisers:
- Ahmed AbuRa’ed (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
- Nadhem Zmandar (Lancaster University).
- Nikiforos Pittaras (NCSR, Demokritos).
- Marina Litvak (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering).
- George Giannakopoulos (SKEL Lab – NCSR Demokritos).
- Mahmoud El-Haj, General Chair (Lancaster University)




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