[Corpora-List] Third International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff: Registration Open

[levow at uchicago.edu]

                Registration Open

The Third International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff
Description and Important Dates

1. Introduction

This is the official announcement for the Third International
Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff, sponsored by the Special
Interest Group for Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN) of the
Association for Computational Linguistics. The bakeoff will
occur over the late spring of 2006 and the resultswill be
presented at the 5th SIGHAN Workshop, to be held at ACL-COLING
2006 in Sydney, Australia, July 22-23, 2006.

The first bakeoff, held in 2003 and presented at the 2nd
SIGHAN Workshop at ACL 2003 in Sapporo, has become the
pre-eminent measure for Chinese word segmentation evaluation
and has been cited in numerous papers. The second bakeoff held
in 2005 and presented at the 4th SIGHAN Workshop at IJCNLP-05
on Jeju Island, Korea demostrated further progress in this
task. In a change from the first two evaluations, the third
bakeoff will augment the classic Word Segmentation task with a
new Named Entity Recognition task. Corpora from
 the  following organizations will be available for use:

- Beijing Universty, China
- CKIP, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
- Linguistic Data Consortium, United States
- Microsoft Research, China
- University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado,
Boulder, United States

The full details of the segmentation and named entity tagging
task will be made available through the registration site
which will open March 15, 2006.

Participants are required to submit a short paper describing
their system and analyzing their performance, and present a
summary at the workshop. The reports will be published in the
SIGHAN workshop proceedings.

The language of the workshop is English. Papers must be
submitted and presented in English. Note that unlike the
workshop proper, there will not be a peer review process on
the bakeoff reports.

2. Important Dates

2006-03-15            Registration Open
2006-04-17            Training data made available
2006-05-15            Testing data made available
2006-05-17            Test results due back to organizers
2006-05-19            Results privately reported to participants
2006-06-2             Final reports due from participants

3. Contact Information

The bakeoff is being organized by Gina-Anne Levow of
University of Chicago and Olivia Oi Yee Kwong, City University
of Hong Kong.

The web page for the competition is:

http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu/bakeoff2006/

Questions on the bakeoff should be addressed to Gina-Anne
Levow, levow at cs.uchicago.edu