Appel: QAst 2008

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:53:32 +0100
From: ELDA <info at elda.org>
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X-url: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast


Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the release of the development dataset for
the CLEF-QA 2008 track "Question Answering on Speech
Transcripts" (QAst).  We take this opportunity to launch a first
call for participation in this evaluation exercise.

QAst is a CLEF-QA track that aims at providing an evaluation framework
for QA technology on speech transcripts, both manual and automatic.  A
detailed description of this track is available at:
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast <http://www.lsi.upc.edu/%7Eqast>

It is the second evaluation for the QAst track.
Last year (QAst 2007), factual questions had been generated for two
distinct corpora (in English language only). This year, in addition to
factual questions, some definition questions are generated, and five
corpora covering three different languages are used (3 corpora in
English, 1 in Spanish and 1 in French).

Important dates:

# 15 June 2008: evaluation set released
# 30 June 2008: submission deadline

The pilot track is organized jointly by the Technical University of
Catalonia (UPC), the Evaluations and Language resources Distribution
Agency (ELDA) and Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les
Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI).

If you are interested in participating please send an email to Jordi 
Turmo (turmo_AT_lsi.upc.edu) with "QAst" in the subject line.

Best regards,

QAst organizers.



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