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Date: 15-Jan-2025
From: Bin Li [libin.njnu at gmail.com]
Subject: 2nd International Evaluation of Ancient Cuneiform Languages


2nd International Evaluation of Ancient Cuneiform Languages
Short Title: EvaCun2025

Date: 05-Mar-2025 - 05-Apr-2025
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Meeting URL: https://digitalpasts.github.io/EvaCUN/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Akkadian (akk)
                     Sumerian (sux)

Co-operated with ALP 2025 at NAACL 2025, 3-4 April 2025
website:  https://digitalpasts.github.io/EvaCUN/
EvaCun 2025 Task
EvaCun 2025 is the second International Evaluation of Ancient
Cuneiform Languages, focusing on lemmatization and text restoration
using large language models in ancient Akkadian and Sumerian.
EvaCun 2025 is organized by Shai Gordin, Stav Klein, Emma Yavasan, and
Shahar Spencer.
New in 2025! cash prizes for first and second best performing teams.
Important dates:
Registration for participation/Training data release: December 1, 2024
- Janurary 15, 2025(extended soon)
Test data release: Feburary 15, 2025
Running Results Submission: Feburary 21, 2025
Tech report submission deadline: Feburary 28, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: March 15, 2025
Registration
If you would like to participate in this shared task, please fill out
the registration form. Once we receive your registration information,
we will send the training data to your email address. Please check
your email regularly. If you do not receive a reply for two days,
please re-send the form.
No need to register for each task seperately, you can participate in
both tasks as long as the group stays the same. Different groups
require seperate registrations.
Submitting Your Results
Once the deadline for registration is due we will publish the link to
send the results. The submissions should be formatted as follows:
File Naming
The name of the should end with “_lemmatization.csv” or
“_tokenprediction.csv” according to the task. If you participate in
both tasks The results should be in a CSV file that is identical in
structure to the train and the test files but has a ‘prediction’
column where you put the lemma or the predicted token.
Writing the Technical Report
Papers should not be longer than 4 pages of content (not including
references). Each task gets its own technical report. To allow blind
reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within
the paper and avoid obvious self-references. The technical report
should include specific examples for the chosen task and the model’s
predictions as well as an error analysis section.
Papers must be submitted according to the submission deadline.
Prizes
To win a task, a team must provide the results file along with their
evaluation score and the technical report. We will re-run the results
file against our evaluation script for authentication and incorporate
the score of the technical report according to the reviewers. The
combined result of the report score and test score will be the final
score for the team.
The winning team for each task will win 500 Euros
The first runner-up for each task will win 250 Euros
To receive the prize groups need to make the code available on Github
and provide details of a single bank account.
Winning models will be used by the eBL and ARCHIBAB projects.
Contact us
Email: digpasts at gmail.com



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