32.2724, Confs: Computational Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-2724. Fri Aug 20 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.2724, Confs: Computational Linguistics/USA

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:53:55
From: Carl Rubino [Carl.Rubino at iarpa.gov]
Subject: Open Automatic Speech Recognition 2021 (OpenASR21) Challenge

 
Open Automatic Speech Recognition 2021 (OpenASR21) Challenge 
Short Title: OpenASR21 

Date: 30-Aug-2021 - 02-Nov-2021 
Location: Virtual, USA 
Contact: Carl Rubino 
Contact Email: Carl.Rubino at iarpa.gov 
Meeting URL: https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openasr-challenge 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Amharic (amh)
                     Chinese, Yue (yue)
                     English (eng)
                     Guaraní, Paraguayan (gug)
                     Kurdish, Central (ckb)
                     Mongolian, Middle (xng)
                     Pashto (pus)
                     Persian, Iranian (pes)
                     Swahili (swh)
                     Tagalog (tgl)
                     Tamil (tam)
                     Vietnamese (vie)

Meeting Description: 

NIST and IARPA are pleased to announce our latest Automatic Speech Recognition
Challenge, OpenASR21, open to all. This new challenge was created out of the
IARPA MATERIAL Program, which encompasses more NLP tasks including CLIR
(cross-language information retrieval), machine translation, domain
classification, and cross-language summarization. To kickstart work in this
new challenge, NIST will distribute ASR training sets to all registered
participants for 15 lower resourced languages, to include all ten languages
from last year's OpenASR20 challenge as well as five new languages (Amharic,
Cantonese, Georgian, Farsi, Guarani, Javanese, Kazakh, Kurmanji Kurdish,
Mongolian, Pashto, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Vietnamese). New to
OpenASR21 will be case sensitive scoring on three languages (Kazakh, Swahili
and Tagalog) to help assess performance on proper nouns, and three different
training conditions detailed in the Evaluation Plan.

Please find the current evaluation plan, toolkit and other resources, and link
to registration here: 
https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openasr-challenge

Please note that the conference dates provided here are the dates for which
the NIST server will accept development submissions. The Evaluation Period
will be Nov 3-10. Challenge winners will be announced on the NIST website.
 






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