[Corpora-List] Second PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge Workshop - Call for Participation

[Roy Bar-Haim]

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                            The Second PASCAL
                Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
                                WORKSHOP
                    April 10, 2006    Venice, Italy

                          Call for Participation

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The workshop of the 2nd Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) PASCAL
Challenge will be held on Monday, April 10, 2006, in Venice, on the first
day of the PASCAL Challenges workshop. The workshop is scheduled right after
the EACL conference, which will be held in near by Trento on April 3-7. It
will be followed by two other PASCAL Challenges Workshops, of the
"Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes" and "Exploration versus
Exploitation" challenges.

Textual entailment recognition is a generic framework for modeling applied
semantic inference. The 2nd RTE Challenge benchmark attracted 23 submissions
from groups around the world, which have been investigating practical
semantic methods within different application areas. A rich variety of
methods were developed, ranging from lexical and syntactic matching to deep
semantic logic-based inference, while utilizing both manually developed
resources and learning-based methods. The workshop will include
presentations of the participating groups, analysis of the current challenge
and planning of future benchmarks.

For more information about the challenge visit:
http://www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/RTE2

For information about the workshop and registration visit:
http://pascal.lri.fr/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php

Registration deadline: March 20

Challenge Organisers
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel (Coordinator):
	Ido Dagan,
	Roy Bar-Haim,
	Idan Szpektor
CELCT, Trento – Italy:
	Bernardo Magnini,
	Danilo Giampiccolo
Microsoft Research, USA:
	Bill Dolan
MITRE, USA:
	Lisa Ferro

Workshop Program Committee
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Johan Bos (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University)
Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research)
Lisa Ferro (MITRE)
Bernardo Magnini (ITC-irst)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas)
Dan Moldovan (University of Texas at Dallas)
Maarten De Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Nicola Stokes (University of Melbourne)
Fabio Zanzotto (University of Milan)



SUPPORT
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The preparation and running of this challenge has been supported by the
EU-funded PASCAL Network of Excellence on Pattern Analysis, Statistical
Modelling and Computational Learning.

Challenge contact: Roy Bar-Haim <barhair at cs.biu.ac.il>