Best regards,
Lushan
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>wrote:
> Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds -- a task at *SEM 2013
>
> We invite all and sundry to participate. All details appear on the
> official site at:
>
> http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/**semeval-2013/task4/<http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task4/>
>
> Registration for task participants:
>
> http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/**semeval-2013/index.php?id=**registration<http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/index.php?id=registration>
>
> Contact: iris at clul.ul.pt
>
> Just to whet your appetite, here is the abstract:
>
> The task of classifying English noun compounds explores the idea of
> interpreting the semantics of noun compounds via paraphrases. Given a
> two-word noun compound, the participants are asked to produce an explicitly
> ranked list of its free paraphrases. The list will be automatically
> compared and evaluated against a similarly ranked list of paraphrases
> proposed by human annotators, recruited and managed through Amazon's
> Mechanical Turk. The comparison of raw paraphrases will be sensitive to
> syntactic and morphological variations. The ranking of paraphrases will be
> based on their relative popularity among annotators. To achieve a reliable
> ranking, highly similar paraphrases will be grouped so as to downplay
> superficial differences in syntax and morphology.
>
> And the relevant dates (slightly tentative), all in 2013:
>
> February 15: Test set ready
> February 15: Registration deadline for task participants
> March 1-15: Evaluation period
> April 9: Paper submission deadline
> May 4: Camera-ready paper due
> June 13 or 14: Workshop co-located with NAACL
>
> Cristina, Iris, Su, Zornitsa, Preslav, Diarmuid, Stan and Tony
>
> --
> Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, Professor
> EECS, Computer Science, University of Ottawa
>
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