IJCNLP 2017: Call for Shared Task Proposals
Chao-Hong
[Apologies for cross-postings]
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IJCNLP 2017: CALL FOR SHARED TASK PROPOSALS
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2017
The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017)
Nov 27–Dec 1, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan
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The IJCNLP 2017 cordially invites proposals for shared tasks at the conference.
The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) and hosted by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) Associations, will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from November 27 to December 1, 2017. IJCNLP 2017 will feature full papers, short papers, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.
The topics of shared tasks include any technology and application of natural language processing (NLP), e.g., word segmentation, parsing, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and question answering. The conference welcomes impactful proposals dedicated to low-resource languages and multimodal NLP applications.
The contents of a proposal should include the following (in 2–4 pages):
o a brief description of the shared task,
o a description of the data sets that will be used in the shared task and their readiness,
o a plan on how the submitted systems will be evaluated,
o the impact of the tasks on the NLP community and on society, and
o any other relevant information you consider necessary.
We recommend the shared task proposers follow the tentative timeline outlined below where feasible to allow sufficient development time for the participants. The timeline for the shared task proposals is as follows.
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Submission Deadline for Shared Task Proposals |
April 1, 2017 |
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Notification of Acceptance |
April 15, 2017 |
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The tentative timeline for organizing shared tasks is as follows.
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Shared Task Website Ready |
May 1, 2017 |
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First Call for Participants Ready |
May 1, 2017 |
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Registration Begins |
May 15, 2017 |
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Release of Training Data |
May 15, 2017 |
Flexible on each shared task’s plan |
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Dryrun: Release of Development Set |
July 12, 2017 |
Flexible on each shared task’s plan |
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Dryrun: Submission on Development Set |
July 19, 2017 |
Flexible on each shared task’s plan |
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Dryrun: Release of Scores |
July 20, 2017 |
Flexible on each shared task’s plan |
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Registration Ends |
August 11, 2017 |
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Release of Test Set |
August 14, 2017 |
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Submission of Systems |
August 21, 2017 |
Flexible on each shared task’s plan |
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System Results |
August 31, 2017 |
Flexible on each shared task’s plan |
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System Description Paper Due |
September 15, 2017 |
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Notification of Acceptance |
September 30, 2017 |
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Camera-Ready Deadline |
October 10, 2017 |
Which is on the same date of workshops’ camera-ready deadline. |
For any question related to the proposals, please email the IJCNLP 2017 shared task co-chairs. Please email your proposal to chaoho...@adaptcentre.ie. A confirmation email will be sent to you within one working day upon receipt of a submission.
CONTACTS
Chao-Hong Liu, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, chaoho...@adaptcentre.ie
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, pna...@hbku.edu.qa
Nianwen Xue, Brandies University, xu...@brandeis.edu