22.1385, Confs: Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

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Subject: 22.1385, Confs: Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

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Date: 14-Feb-2011
From: Martin Potthast [martin.potthast at uni-weimar.de]
Subject: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:58:46
From: Martin Potthast [martin.potthast at uni-weimar.de]
Subject: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse

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Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse 
Short Title: PAN 

Date: 19-Sep-2011 - 22-Sep-2011 
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact: Martin Potthast 
Contact Email: pan at webis.de 
Meeting URL: http://pan.webis.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 5th International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and 
Social Software Misuse PAN'11 will be held as competition in conjunction 
with the CLEF conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on September 19-
22, 2011. 

Call for Participation

Competition on:
Plagiarism Detection, Author Identification, and Wikipedia Vandalism 
Detection
Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19-22
http://pan.webis.de
(held in conjunction with the CLEF'11 conference)

This year's edition divides into three tasks, namely plagiarism detection,
author identification, and Wikipedia vandalism detection.

Plagiarism detection in text documents is a challenging retrieval task: 
today's detection systems are faced with intricate situations, such as 
paraphrased plagiarism within and across languages. Moreover, the source 
of a plagiarism case may be hidden within a large collection of documents 
such as the Web, or it may not be available at all. Building on the successful 
evaluation framework developed in the last two years, we continue to add 
new challenges this year.

Author identification is the task of determining the true author of a text.
Throughout history and especially today, many texts are written 
anonymously or under false names, so that readers may not be certain of a 
text's alleged author. Within author identification, one of the main 
challenges is to automatically attribute a text to one of a set of known 
candidate authors. For the purpose of the evaluation, we have developed a 
new authorship evaluation corpus.

Vandalism has always been one of Wikipedia's biggest problems. However,
the detection of vandalism is done mostly manually by volunteers, and
research on automatic vandalism detection is still in its infancy. Hence,
solutions are to be developed which aid Wikipedians in their efforts.

We invite researchers and practitioners from all fields to participate.

Important Dates
Registration
May 31, 2011: Result submission deadline
Jun 30, 2011: Notebook submission deadline
Sep 19-22, 2011: Conference

Organization

Webis @ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
http://www.webis.de

NLEL @ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
http://www.dsic.upv.es/grupos/nle

Efstathios Stamatatos, University of the Aegean
http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/lecturers/stamatatos

Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University
http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel

Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology
http://lingcog.iit.edu/~argamon/

Patrick Juola, Duquesne University
http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~juola/

Contact

E-mail: pan at webis.de
Campaign Web page: http://pan.webis.de

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