Invitation for collaboration on shared tasks: 1) Event causality, 2) COVID19 related protests

[Ali Hürriyetoğlu]

Dear all,

I hope this e-mail finds you well. We would like to provide you some updates and invite you to collaborate on the CASE 2022 shared task organization.

We are almost done for the workshop proposal. We will submit it next week. Three prominent scholars has accepted our invitation as keynote speakers: i) J. Craig Jenkins (https://sociology.osu.edu/people/jenkins.12) ii) Scott Althaus (https://pol.illinois.edu/directory/profile/salthaus) and iii) Thien Huu Nguyen (https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~thien/). The workshop page will be https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2022/, it will be updated shortly (it is a copy paste of https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2021/ at the moment).

We are preparing two additional (in addition to the multilingual event information collection task) shared tasks for CASE 2022. Please let me and the respective person know if you are interested in collaborating with us on these tasks.

1- Event causality identification with Fiona Anting Tan. Tasks i) task specification, ii) state-of-the-art baselines, and iii) annotation. The CASE 2021 data is being annotated for this task. Please send an e-mail to me and to Fiona (ta...@u.nus.edu).

2- COVID-19 related protests Tasks i) on-the-ground event list creation, ii) preparation of the data source that should be processed to identify protest information that will be compared with the on the ground event list for evaluation.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Ali

P.S: You have received this e-mail because you had some relation with this workshop series in the past. Please let me know if you do not want to receive these e-mails any more.