CLEF-QAst evaluation campaign - 2nd Call for participation

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*CLEF-QAst evaluation campaign *

*Second call for participation *

QAst is a new CLEF-QA track that aims to provide an evaluation framework 
for Question Answering technology (currently just factual QA)
on speech transcripts, both manual and automatic. A detailed description 
of this track is available here: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast 
<http://www.lsi.upc.edu/%7Eqast>

 
The pilot track is organized jointly by the Technical University of 
Catalonia (UPC <http://www.upc.es/>), the Evaluations and Language 
resources Distribution Agency (ELDA <http://www.elda.org/>)
and the Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de 
l'Ingénieur (LIMSI <http://www.limsi.fr/>).

 
The participation is free of charge.

 
Important dates:

 30 January 2007: development set released
 15 June 2007: evaluation set released
 30 June 2007: submission deadline
 20 August 2007: paper submission deadline
 19-21 September 2007: workshop

If you are interested in participating please send an email to Jordi 
Turmo (*turmo_AT_lsi.upc.edu*) with "QAst" in the subject line.

Best regards,

QAst organizers

 

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