Call for problems for the Third ALTA Language Technology Programming Competition

[Diego Molla-Aliod]

Dear all,

ALTA is seeking problems to use for the Third ALTA Language Technology
Programming Competition. As in the previous two years, we welcome problems
that can be run  as a shared task. That is, all competitors will attempt to
solve the same task using common data and evaluated against a new test set
that is common to all. The problems that we are seeking should have the
following features:

* They are related to a language technology task.
* They should be easy to explain to undergraduate and Masters students with
programming skills but without knowledge on language technology.
* The task should be of such a difficulty that would encourage the
competitors, yet it is possible to pick a winner. In other words, it should
be very hard to get perfect results but simple methods should achieve
encouraging results.
* It should be possible to evaluate the results automatically (unless you
are willing to evaluate the results yourself!)
* The unseen data should not be currently publicly available.

* And above all, the task should be fun!

The two previous competitions are described here:

http://comp.mq.edu.au/programming/index.htm
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2011/

The closing date for submission of proposals is Wednesday 21 March 2012.

Diego

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