[Corpora-List] ACL 2004 Workshop: Senseval-3 Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text

From: Rada Mihalcea (rada@cs.unt.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 18:34:22 MET

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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SENSEVAL-3 EVALUATIONS

    SENSEVAL-3 Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of
    Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text

    An ACL-2004 Workshop
    Barcelona, Spain
    July 25-26, 2004

    http://www.senseval.org/senseval3
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    The main purpose of this workshop is to analyze and discuss the results
    of systems participating in the Senseval-3 evaluations, to be held in
    March-April 2004. Fourteen different tasks are planned for Senseval-3,
    to conduct evaluations of systems that perform automatic semantic analysis
    of text, including: word sense disambiguation for various languages,
    identification of semantic roles, logic forms, multilingual annotations,
    subcategorization acquisition.

    This is an advance notice of the evaluation exercise and workshop.
    Registration for the evaluation will open in February (watch the website
    for updates). Papers will be accepted from participants only.

    [BACKGROUND]

    There are now many computer systems that do automatic semantic analysis of
    text. The purpose of Senseval is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses
    of such systems with respect to different words, relations, types of texts,
    different varieties of language, and different languages.

    This workshop is a follow-up to Senseval-1 and Senseval-2.
    Senseval-1 took place in the summer of 1998 for English, French, and Italian,
    culminating in a workshop held at Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England on
    September 2-4.
    Senseval-2 took place in the summer of 2001, and was followed by a workshop
    held in July 2001 in Toulouse, in conjunction with ACL-2001. Senseval-2
    included tasks for Basque, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian,
    Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish.

    [TASKS]

    The following tasks are planned for Senseval-3 (see webpage for a description
    of each task):

    1. English all words
    2. Italian all words
    3. Basque lexical sample
    4. Catalan lexical sample
    5. Chinese lexical sample
    6. English lexical sample
    7. Italian lexical sample
    8. Romanian lexical sample
    9. Spanish lexical sample
    10. Automatic subcategorization acquisition
    11. Multilingual lexical sample
    12. WSD of WordNet glosses
    13. Semantic Roles
    14. Logic Forms

    This 2-day workshop will consist of several Senseval-3 task and system
    presentations, including analyses of results obtained during the
    evaluations, with comparisons across different systems, techniques,
    and languages. We also plan for two panels on (1) the interaction
    between systems for semantic analysis of text and other NLP applications,
    and (2) planning Senseval-4.

    [SUBMISSION FORMAT]

    Submissions will consist of refereed papers describing the Senseval-3
    tasks and participating systems:
    - one paper for each task, limited to four pages
    - one paper for each participating team, limited to four pages for the
    first task, and one extra page for each additional task
    Papers will have to follow the ACL 2004 formatting guidelines.
    Submissions will be entered via the Senseval-3 website.

    [IMPORTANT DATES]

    Registration February
    Evaluations March - April
    Deadline for paper submissions April 20
    Deadline for camera-ready papers May 18
    Workshop July 25-26

    [ORGANIZING COMMITTEE]

    Phil Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe
    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas

    [PROGRAM COMMITTEE]

    Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
    Rebecca Bruce, University of North Carolina at Asheville
    Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa
    Tim Chklovski, Information Sciences Institute
    Massimiliano Ciaramita, Brown University
    Silviu Cucerzan, Microsoft Research
    Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp
    Florentina Hristea, University of Bucharest
    Nancy Ide, Vassar College
    Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa
    Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton
    Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Goteborg University
    Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge
    Robert Krovetz, Teoma
    Sadao Kurohashi, The University of Kyoto
    Dekang Lin, University of Alberta
    Ken Litkowski, CL Research
    PengYuan Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology
    Bernardo Magnini, ITC-IRST, Trento
    Lluis Marquez, University of Catalunya
    Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
    Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa
    Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
    Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
    Patrick Pantel, Information Sciences Institute
    Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
    Judita Preiss, University of Cambridge
    Amruta Purandare, University of Minnesota, Duluth
    German Rigau, University of the Basque Country
    Vasile Rus, Indiana University South-Bend
    Charles Schafer, John Hopkins University
    Carlo Strapparava, ITC-IRST, Trento
    Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy
    Cynthia Thompson, University of Utah
    Paola Velardi, La Sapienza, Rome
    Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
    David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University
    Deniz Yuret, Koc University



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