[Corpora-List] New Call for Proposals: *SEM Shared Task 2012

[Deniz Yuret]

*SEM Shared Task 2012 (*Sem Shared Task 2012)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

*SEM Shared Task 2012: Call for Proposals

ACL special interest groups SIGLEX and SIGSEM invites proposals for
the *SEM Shared Task 2012.

*SEM is the first joint conference on lexical and computational
semantics. The main goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the
growing number of NLP researchers working on different aspects of
semantic processing, which has been scattered over a large array of
small workshops and conferences. The first edition of *SEM will be a
two-day conference collocated with the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language
Technologies 2012 conference (NAACL HLT), which will take place in
Montreal, Canada.

Every year *SEM is planning to include a shared task in which training
and test data are provided by the organizers, which allows
participating systems to be evaluated and compared in a systematic
way. Descriptions of the participating systems and an evaluation of
their performance will be presented both at the conference and in the
proceedings. The same or similar shared tasks may be chosen for
several years in a row to focus the research attention of the
community on a particular semantic task. For *SEM 2012, proposals are
invited for any shared task related to lexical or computational
semantics.

Note that this shared task will be held in addition to the SemEval
tasks. SemEval task organizers are welcome to submit their task for
the shared task. If accepted, their task will be moved from SemEval to
the shared task of *SEM.

Proposals should contain the following information:
- Names and affiliations of the members of the organizing committee
(including a designated contact person)
- Description of the shared task, including its relevance for the
study of computational and lexical semantics
- Description of the process for selecting, acquiring and preparing
the data for training and evaluation, including conditions of
availability
- Description of the procedure for evaluating the performance of
participating systems, including the availability of evaluation
software
- Any other relevant information

Proposals should be in PDF format, maximum 2 pages, and sent by e-mail
to (StarSemSharedTask at cs.york.ac.uk):

Important Dates:

Shared Task Proposals due: 15 November 2011
Accept/Reject decision due: 25 November 2011

Any questions regarding the proposals can be sent to
(StarSemSharedTask at cs.york.ac.uk).

The expected timeline for the *SEM shared task 2012 is as follows:
- Dec 1: general announcement
- Dec 15: call for interest in participation
- Dec 15: task website (first version with general information,
task definition, examples and calendar)
- Dec 15: trial datasets (plus documentation and scorer)
- Jan 13: registration for the task (plus corpora licenses)
- Jan 15: training and development sets available
- Feb 21: test set available
- Mar 1: systems' outputs collected

*SEM Shared Task Committee:

*SEM General Chair: Eneko Agirre
*SEM co-chairs : Johan Bos, Mona Diab
Shared Task Co-chairs : Suresh Manandhar and Deniz Yuret

Further details will be available from the *SEM website:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem

Read more: http://aclweb.org/portal/content/sem-shared-task-2012

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