[Corpora-List] Call for Participation SEMEVAL 2015 Task 2 -- Semantic Textual Similarity

[Eneko Agirre]

[Apologies for duplication]

Call for Participation SEMEVAL 2015 Task 2 -- Semantic Textual Similarity

Semantic textual similarity (STS) has received an increasing amount of 
attention in recent years, culminating with the Semeval/*SEM tasks 
organized in 2012, 2013 and 2014, bringing together more than 60 
participating teams. Please check http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/stswiki/ for 
details on previous tasks.

Given two sentences of text, s1 and s2, the systems participating in 
this task should compute how similar s1 and s2 are, returning a 
similarity score, and an optional confidence score. The annotations and 
systems will use a scale from 0 (no relation) to 5 (semantic 
equivalence), indicating the similarity between two sentences. 
Participating systems will be evaluated using the same metrics 
traditionally employed in the evaluation of STS systems, and also used 
in previous Semeval/*SEM STS evaluations, i.e., mean Pearson correlation 
between the system output and the gold standard annotations.

In 2015 we will continue to evaluate STS systems on the following subtasks:

- *English STS*, with sentence pairs on news headlines, image captions, 
student answers, answers to question in public forums and sentences 
expressing commited belief.

- *Spanish STS*, with sentence pairs extracted from encyclopedic content 
and newswire, and text snippet pairs obtained from news headlines.

- *NEW* for 2015, we devised a *pilot subtask on interpretable STS*. 
With this pilot task we want to explore whether participant systems are 
able to explain WHY they think the two sentences are related / 
unrelated, adding an explanatory layer to the similarity score. As a 
first step in this direction, participating systems will need to*align 
the segments* in one sentence in the pair to the segments in the other 
sentence, describing what kind of *relation* exists between each pair of 
segments. This pilot subtask will provide specific trial and training data.

Please join the mailing list for updates at 
http://groups.google.com/group/STS-semeval. Check out the task's webpage 
at http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/task2/ for more details.

Important dates:

    Evaluation start: December 5, 2014 [updated due to clash with 
NAACL-2015 deadline]
    Evaluation end: December 20, 2014 [updated due to clash with 
NAACL-2015 deadline]
    Paper submission due: January 30, 2015
    Paper reviews due: February 28, 2015
    Camera ready due: March 30, 2015
    SemEval workshop: Summer 2015

Organizers:
* STS English: Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor 
Gonzalez-Agirre, Weiwei Guo, and German Rigau.
* STS Spanish: Carmen Banea, Claire Cardie, Rada Mihalcea, and Janyce Wiebe.
* STS pilot on interpretability and segment alignment: Eneko Agirre, 
Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio, Montse Maritxalar and German 
Rigau.

References:

**Eneko Agirre, Carmen Banea, Claire Cardie, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, 
Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Weiwei Guo, Rada Mihalcea, German Rigau, Janyce 
Wiebe. SemEval-2014 Task 10: Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity. 
Proceedings of SemEval 2014. [pdf 
<http://anthology.aclweb.org/S/S14/S14-2010.pdf>]

Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, WeiWei Guo. 
*SEM 2013 shared task: Semantic Textual Similarity, Proceedings of *SEM 
2013. [pdf <http://aclweb.org/anthology//S/S13/S13-1004.pdf>]

Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre. SemEval-2012 
Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity. Proceedings of SemEval 
2012. [pdf <http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/S/S12/S12-1051.pdf>]
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