20.1513, Calls: Computational Ling/Italy

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Subject: 20.1513, Calls: Computational Ling/Italy

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Date: 21-Apr-2009
From: Manuela Speranza < manspera at fbk.eu >
Subject: Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:10:17
From: Manuela Speranza [manspera at fbk.eu]
Subject: Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian

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Full Title: Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian 
Short Title: Evalita 2009 

Date: 12-Dec-2009 - 12-Dec-2009
Location: Reggio Emilia, Italy 
Contact Person: Manuela Speranza
Meeting Email: manspera at fbk.eu
Web Site: http://evalita.fbk.eu 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

EVALITA is an initiative devoted to the evaluation of Natural Language
Processing and Speech tools for Italian. The general objective of Evalita is to
promote the development of language technologies for Italian, providing a shared
framework where different systems and approaches can be evaluated in a
consistent manner. 

Second Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that the development data for the different tasks of
EVALITA 2009 are now available. We take this opportunity to launch a second call
for participation.

The general objective of Evalita is to promote the development of language
technologies for the Italian language, providing a shared framework where
different systems and approaches can be evaluated in a consistent manner.

We invite participation, both from academic institutions and industrial
organizations, in eight tasks, all for Italian. With respect to the previous
edition, tasks also include a range of Speech tasks and a new Textual Entailment
task.

Text tasks
- PoS-Tagging
- Parsing (Dependency Parsing and Constituency Parsing)
- Lexical substitution
- Entity Recognition (Named Entity Recognition and Local Entity Detection and
Recognition)
- Textual Entailment

Speech tasks
- Connected Digits Recognition (Clean Digits and Noisy Digits)
- Dialogue System Evaluation
- Speaker Identity Verification (Application and Forensic)

As with the previous edition, guidelines describing the different tasks are
available for download from the EVALITA website. Participants will also be
provided with training data and will have the chance to test their systems with
the evaluation metrics and procedures to be used in the formal evaluation. The
results of the evaluation will be disseminated at the final workshop, which will
be organized in conjunction with AI*IA 2009 and will take place in ReggioEmilia
on December 12th, 2009.

In order to register for one or more of the EVALITA 2009 tasks, please go to the
registration page of the EVALITA 2009 website:
http://evalita.fbk.eu/registration.html

For more detailed information please refer to the website at http://evalita.fbk.eu

Timeline
- 1st February 2009: on-line registration opens
- 1st April 2009: development data available to participants
- 10th September 2009: test data available, registration closes
- 20th September 2009: system results due to organizers
- 5th October 2009: assessment returned to participants
- 25th October 2009: technical reports due to organizers
- 12th December 2009: final workshop, Reggio Emilia

Coordination:
Bernardo Magnini (FBK-irst) and Amedeo Cappelli (ISTI-CNR and CELCT)

Task Organization:
- PoS-Tagging: Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi (Uni. Pisa)
- Parsing: Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo (Uni. Torino),
Felice dell'Orletta (Uni. Pisa), Alessandro Lenci (Uni. Pisa) and Simonetta
Montemagni (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
- Lexical Substitution: Antonio Toral (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
- Entity Recognition: Manuela Speranza (FBK-irst, Trento), Valentina Bartalesi
Lenzi, Rachele Sprugnoli (CELCT, Trento)
- Textual Entailment: Johan Bos (Uni. Roma "La Sapienza"), Marco Pennacchiotti
(Saarland University), Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Uni. Roma "Tor Vergata")
- Connected Digits Recognition: Gianpaolo Coro (ABLA, Milano), Roberto Gretter
(FBK-irst, Trento) and Marco Matassoni (FBK-irst, Trento)
- Spoken Dialogue Evaluation: Giuseppe Riccardi (Uni. Trento), Francesco Cutugno
(Uni. Napoli "Federico II"), Roberto Pieraccini (Speechcycle, New York) and
Morena Danieli (Loquendo, Torino)
- Speaker Identity Verification: Guido Aversano (Parrot SA, Paris) and Luciano
Romito (Uni. Calabria, Cosenza)

Contact: Manuela Speranza - manspera at fbk.eu

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