30.431, FYI: Building Educational Applications 2019 Shared Task

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Subject: 30.431, FYI: Building Educational Applications 2019 Shared Task

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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:38:33
From: Ekaterina Kochmar [Ekaterina.Kochmar at cl.cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Building Educational Applications 2019 Shared Task

 
Call for Participation:

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of automatically correcting
grammatical errors in text; e.g. [I follows his advices -> I followed his
advice]. It can be used to not only help language learners improve their
writing skills, but also alert native speakers to accidental mistakes or
typos.

GEC gained significant attention in the Helping Our Own (HOO) and CoNLL shared
tasks between 2011 and 2014, but has since become more difficult to evaluate
given a lack of standardised experimental settings. One of the aims of this
shared task is hence to once again provide a platform where different
approaches can be trained and tested under the same conditions.

In addition, this shared task introduces the Write & Improve corpus, a new
error-annotated dataset that represents a much more diverse cross-section of
English language levels and domains (https://writeandimprove.com/). We will
also provide an annotated development and test set extracted from the LOCNESS
corpus, a collection of essays written by native English students compiled by
the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain. 

Tracks:

There are 3 tracks in the BEA 2019 shared task. Each track controls the amount
of annotated data that can be used in a system. We place no restrictions on
the amount of unannotated data that can be used (e.g. for language modelling).

Important Dates:

Jan 25, 2019: New training data released
March 25, 2019: New test data released
March 29, 2019: System output submission deadline
April 12, 2019: System results announced
May 3, 2019: System paper submission deadline
May 17, 2019: Review deadline
May 24, 2019: Notification of acceptance
June 7, 2019: Camera-ready submission deadline
August 2, 2019: BEA-2019 Workshop (Florence, Italy)

Organisers:

Christopher Bryant, University of Cambridge
Mariano Felice, University of Cambridge
Oistein Andersen, University of Cambridge
Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge

Contact:

Questions and queries about the shared task can be sent to
bea2019st at gmail.com.

Further details can be found at:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl/bea2019st/
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 



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