32.3020, FYI: SemEval 2022 Shared Task 1 - CoDWoE: Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings

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Subject: 32.3020, FYI: SemEval 2022 Shared Task 1 - CoDWoE: Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings

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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:48:38
From: Timothee Mickus [tmickus at atilf.fr]
Subject: SemEval 2022 Shared Task 1 - CoDWoE: Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings

 
[Apologies for cross-posting]

Do you work with text generation or word embeddings? We invite everyone to
explore if a word embedding can be transformed into a short informative text
(word definition, or gloss) and vice versa.

The CODWOE, Task 1 at SemEval 2022, aims to compare two types of semantic
descriptions: dictionary definitions and word embedding representations. Are
these two types of representation equivalent? Can we generate one from the
other? To study this question, we propose two subtracks: a definition modeling
track where participants have to generate definitions from vectors, and a
reverse dictionary track where participants have to generate vectors from
definitions. The tasks are available for English, Spanish, French, Italian and
Russian.

These two tracks display a number of interesting characteristics. These tasks
are obviously useful for explainable AI, since they involve converting
human-readable data into machine-readable data and back. They also have a
theoretical significance: both definitions and word embeddings are also
representations of meaning, and therefore involve the conversion of distinct
non-formal semantic representations. From a practical point of view, the
ability to infer word-embeddings from dictionary resources, or dictionaries
from large unannotated corpora, would prove a boon for many under-resourced
languages.

Here are the key dates participants should keep in mind:
September 3, 2021: Training data & development data made available
January 10, 2022: Evaluation data made available & evaluation start
January 31, 2022: Evaluation end
February 23, 2022: Paper submission due
March 31, 2022: Notification to authors

To get started:
register on the codalab competition:
https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/34022
join the discord server : https://discord.gg/y8g6qXakNs
join the google group: send an email to
semeval2022-dictionaries-and-word-embeddings+subscribe at googlegroups.com
download the competition data and starter code:
https://git.atilf.fr/tmickus/codwoe/-/tree/master/ 

Best regards,

CoDWoE organizers:
Timothee Mickus, ATILF, University of Lorraine / CNRS
Kees van Deemter, Utrecht University
Mathieu Constant, ATILF, University of Lorraine / CNRS
Denis Paperno, Utrecht University
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Russian (rus)
                     Spanish (spa)





 



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