30.1502, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Switzerland

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Subject: 30.1502, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:49:55
From: Preslav Nakov [preslav.nakov at gmail.com]
Subject: CLEF-2019 Fact Checking Lab

 
CLEF-2019 Fact Checking Lab 
Short Title: CheckThat! 2019 

Date: 09-Sep-2019 - 12-Sep-2019 
Location: Lugano, Switzerland 
Contact: Preslav Nakov 
Contact Email: preslav.nakov at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/clef2019-checkthat/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

CLEF-2019 FACT CHECKING LAB: Call for Participation

https://sites.google.com/view/clef2019-checkthat/

Contact: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clef-factcheck

Call for Participation:

Introduction:

We invite you to take part in our shared task on the identification and
verification of claims in political debates. Two tasks, available in English
and Arabic, are included:

Task 1: Check-Worthiness. Predict which claim in a text should be prioritized
for fact-checking. In particular, given a debate, the goal is to produce a
ranked list of its sentences based on their worthiness for fact checking. This
task will run inEnglish.
 

Task 2: Factuality and Evidence.

Identify which of an input set of Web pages (and passages of those Web pages)
can be useful in assisting a human in fact-checking a claim. In particular,
given a claim associated with a set of Web pages potentially relevant to the
claim, classify and rank the pages based on usefulness for fact-checking,
determine which passage of those pages were actually useful, and finally,
determine the claim factuality. This task will run in Arabic.
 

Our lab is held in conjunction with CLEF 2019 in Lugano, Switzerland.

How to Participate:

1. Register for the Fact Checking Lab at:
http://clef2019-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/

2. Join the Google Group for the task:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clef-factcheck

3. Download the datasets and tools from
https://sites.google.com/view/clef2019-checkthat/datasets-tools

4. Train you models to approach either or both tasks.

5. Submit your results on the test sets.

6. Submit a paper describing your approach.

7. Come to Lugano and present your approach.

Important Dates:

Apr 26             
Registration closes

Apr 27             
Beginning of evaluation cycle for Task 1

May 3              
End of evaluation cycle for Task 1

Apr 27             
Beginning of evaluation cycle for Task 2

May 10            
End of evaluation cycle for Task 2

May 24
Paper submission

Jun 7               
Camera-ready paper submission

Sep 9-12         
Conference (Lugano, Switzerland)
 






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