34.1262, Calls: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX) @ EVALITA 2023

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Subject: 34.1262, Calls: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX) @ EVALITA 2023

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Date: 18-Apr-2023
From: Dominique Brunato [dominique.brunato at ilc.cnr.it]
Subject: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX) @ EVALITA 2023

Full Title: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX)
@ EVALITA 2023
Short Title: DisCoTEX at EVALITA 2023

Date: 07-Sep-2023 - 08-Sep-2023
Location: Parma, Italy
Contact Person: Dominique Brunato
Meeting Email: dominique.brunato at ilc.cnr.it
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 09-May-2023

Meeting Description:

TASK: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX) @
EVALITA 2023
Info: https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home
Final Workshop: September 7th-8th, 2023, Parma, Italy

Dear Linguist List members,
we are excited to invite interested parties from academia and industry
to the DisCoTEX Task, which will be held in the context of Evalita
2023.

DisCoTEX is the first shared task focused on modeling discourse
coherence for Italian real-word texts. Coherence is a key property of
any well-organized text and it plays a fundamental role in human
discourse processing as well as in a number of NLP applications.
Inspired by previous literature on coherence modeling, the DisCoTEX
task will be articulated into two subtasks:
1. Last sentence classification: this is conceived as a binary
classification task. Specifically, given a short textual passage and
an individual sentence, participants will be asked to predict whether
the sentence follows or not, thus joining it to the passage gives out
a coherent or incoherent passage.
2. Human score prediction: this is conceived as a regression task in
which participants will be asked to predict the average coherence
score assigned by human raters to short passages (either in their
original or modified version).

Participants are free to participate in either one of them or both.

More details about the task definition, source data and evaluation are
available at the task website.

Call for Participation:

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Second Call for Participation
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Given the novelty of the task and the crucial role that coherence
modeling plays in a variety of application scenarios, we expect to
attract groups from communities working on distinct fields, such as
automatic essay scoring, readability assessment and document
summarization. Moreover, we hope that beyond the competition, the task
would rise the interest of scholars working on theoretical models of
coherence from a linguistic and a cognitive perspective, as well as
those involved in the interpretability of current language models
based on deep learning networks.

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Important Dates
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7th February 2023: training data available to participants
2nd – 9 May 2023: test data available (evaluation window starts)
30th May 2023: results notification to participants
14th June 2023: technical report from participants due to task
organizers
28th June 2023: final reports from task organizers due to EVALITA
chairs
10th July 2023: review deadline
25th July 2023: camera ready version deadline
7th-8th September 2023: EVALITA workshop in Parma

Updates will be made available at the Evalita 2023 website, check it
often.

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Organizers
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Dominique Brunato*
Davide Colla**
Felice Dell'Orletta*
Irene Dini*
Daniele Paolo Radicioni**
Andrea Amelio Ravelli***

* ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio
Zampolli" (ILC-CNR), Pisa
** Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino
*** Università di Bologna, Bologna

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Contacts: discotex.evalita2023 at gmail.com

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Feel free to contact us for further information!
The DisCoTEX organizing committee

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