32.431, Calls: Slavic Subgroup; Comp Ling, Morphology/Online

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Subject: 32.431, Calls: Slavic Subgroup; Comp Ling, Morphology/Online

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:09:07
From: Roman Yangarber [roman.yangarber at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Shared Task on Slav-NER: Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-lingual linking of Named Entities in Slavic languages

 
Full Title: Shared Task on Slav-NER: Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-lingual linking of Named Entities in Slavic languages 
Short Title: Slav-NER-3 

Date: 19-Apr-2021 - 20-Apr-2021
Location: Kyiv (Online), Ukraine 
Contact Person: Roman Yangarber
Meeting Email: bsnlp at cs.helsinki.fi
Web Site: http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Morphology 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 08-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

The 3rd Slav-NER Shared Task on Named Entities in Slavic Languages:
Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-Lingual Linking.
Co-located with the BSNLP Workshop, EACL 2021

The 3rd Slav-NER Shared Task focuses on Named Entities in Slavic languages.

Due to rich inflection, free word order, derivation, and other phenomena
common to the Slavic languages, work on Named Entities poses important
challenges.  Fostering research & development on the problems of Named
Entities — detecting names, lemmatization (normalization), classification, and
cross-lingual matching — is crucial for information access and wider use of
NLP in Slavic languages.

The 3rd Slav-NER Shared Task covers six languages:
 - Bulgarian,
 - Czech,
 - Polish,
 - Russian,
 - Slovene,
 - Ukrainian.

and five types of named entities:
 - persons,
 - locations,
 - organizations,
 - events,
 - products.

For information about training and test data, guidelines, and participation,
please see the Shared Task Home Page.

IMPORTANT: Participants are NOT required to perform all tasks or for all
languages.  For example, a monolingual entry, without lemmatization of the
names, can participate.

The Shared Task focuses on cross-lingual extraction of named entities — the
systems should recognize, classify, and extract all mentions of a name in a
document; detecting the position of each name mention is NOT required. Name
mentions should be lemmatized, and mentions referring to the same real-world
object should be linked across documents and languages. The text collection
consists of sets of documents retrieved from the Web, each set about a certain
major entity or event. The corpus was collected by crawling the Web and
parsing the HTML documents.

For background, see the 1st (2017) and the 2nd edition (2019) of the Slav-NER
shared task.


Final Call for Participation: 

Teams that wish to participate should register via email to:
bsnlp at cs.helsinki.fi, with the following information:
 -  name of team,
 - team members,
 - contact person,
 - contact email

Important Dates: 
    Shared task announcement: 1 December 2020 ⇒ Training data available (for
most languages)
    Release of remaining training data (for Slovene and Ukrainian): 15 January
2021
    Registration deadline: 1 March 2021
    Release of Test data to registered participants: 3 March 2021
    Submission of system responses: 5 March 2021
    Results announced to participants: 6 March 2021
    Camera-ready shared task papers (optional): 8 March 2021

For additional information, please see the Slav-NER Shared Task home page at
http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html




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