31.1145, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1145. Wed Mar 25 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1145, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:31:41
From: Preslav Nakov [preslav.nakov at gmail.com]
Subject: CLEF-2020 CheckThat! Lab

 
CLEF-2020 CheckThat! Lab 
Short Title: CheckThat! 

Date: 20-Sep-2020 - 25-Sep-2020 
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact: Preslav Nakov 
Contact Email: preslav.nakov at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/clef2020-checkthat/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Germanic 
Meeting Description: 

CLEF-2020 CheckThat! Lab (Tasks in English): Call for Participation (with
COVID-19 tweets)

** Call for Participation **
https://sites.google.com/view/clef2020-checkthat/
Contact: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clef-factcheck

Tasks: 
We invite you to take part in the CLEF-2020 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic
Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. Three tasks are
available in English, one of which features a dataset about COVID-19:

Task 1: Check-Worthiness on Tweets. The task asks to rank a stream of tweets
on a number of topics, including COVID-19, according to their
check-worthiness.  (https://github.com/sshaar/clef2020-factchecking-task1). 

Task 2: Verified Claim Retrieval. Given a check-worthy claim and a set of
verified claims, rank the verified claims, so that those that verify the input
claim (or a sub-claim in it) are ranked on top
(https://github.com/sshaar/clef2020-factchecking-task2). 

Task 5: Check-Worthiness on Debates. Given a debate segmented into sentences,
together with speaker information, prioritize sentences for fact-checking
(https://github.com/sshaar/clef2020-factchecking-task5). 

The CheckThat! Lab also has three tasks in Arabic (check the Lab website for
details). 

The Lab will be held in conjunction with CLEF 2020 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

 

How to Participate: 

1. Register for the Fact Checking Lab at
http://clef2020-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php
2. Join the Google Group for the task:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clef-factcheck
3. Download the datasets and the tools:
https://sites.google.com/view/clef2020-checkthat/
4. Prepare/train your models.
5. Submit your results on the test sets.
6. Submit a paper describing your approach.
7. Come to Thessaloniki, Greece and present your approach.
 
Important Dates: 
Mar 20          Beginning of the evaluation cycle for the English tasks
May 1  Test sets released
May 10  Submission deadline
May 24         Paper submission
Jun 28           Camera-ready paper submission
Sep 22-25     Conference (Thessaloniki, Greece)
 
English Tasks Organizers: 
Alex Nikolov, Sofia University 
Firoj Alam, QCRI, HBKU 
Nikolay Babulkov, Sofia University 
Shaden Shaar, QCRI, HBKU 
Giovanni Da San Martino, QCRI, HBKU 
Preslav Nakov, QCRI, HBKU





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