CFP in Shared Task on Detecting Paraphrase in Indian Languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Punjabi) @ FIRE2016, ISI Kolkatta

[Dr. Anand Kumar M (CEN)]

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Call for Participation
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CFP in Shared Task on Detecting Paraphrase in Indian Languages (DPIL) held in conjunction with the Forum for Information Retrieval  Evaluation (FIRE) 2016  on 8th - 10th December 2016, Kolkata
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Paraphrase can be defined as “the same meaning of a sentence is expressed in another sentence using different words”. Paraphrases can be identified, generated or extracted. The proposed task is focused on sentence level paraphrase identification for Indian languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Punjabi). Identifying paraphrases in Indian languages is a difficult task, because evaluating the semantic similarity of the underlying content and the understanding the morphological variations of the language are more critical. Paraphrase identification is strongly connected with generation and extraction of paraphrases. The paraphrase identification systems improve the performance of a paraphrase generation in terms of choosing the best paraphrase candidate from the list of paraphrases candidates generated by paraphrases generation system. Paraphrase Identification is also used in validating the paraphrase extraction system and the machine translation system. Since there are no annotated corpora or automated semantic interpretation systems available for Indian languages till date, creating benchmark data for paraphrases and utilizing that data in open shared task competitions will motivate the research community for further research in Indian languages.

Sub Task 1:

Given a pair of sentences from news paper domain, the task is to classify them as paraphrases (P) or not paraphrases (NP).

Sub Task 2:

Given two sentences from news paper domain, the task is to identify whether they are completely equivalent (E) or roughly equivalent (RE) or not equivalent (NE). This task is similar to the subtask 1, but the main difference is 3-point scale tag in paraphrases.

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We are planning to provide cash awards or travel grants for Top 2 winning teams . We glad to invite all researchers working on Paraphrase Identification, Plagiarism detection and Machine Translation Evaluation to participate in the Shared Task DPIL.

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Important Dates
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21th June 2016  : Registration Starts
10th July 2016            :  Training data will be Released
15th August 2016        :  Test Data will be Released
1st September 2016    :  Deadline of Runs Submission
10th September 2016   :  Results declared
10th October  2016       :  Working Notes Due
December 8-10, 2016 :  FIRE 2016 Conference

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Registration is now open. You can register on the DPIL website:
Task website :  http://nlp.amrita.edu/dpil_cen/
Fire website  : http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2016/home

Contact email:
              dpil...@cb.amrita.edu
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Track Organizers
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Anand Kumar M, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India
Soman K P , CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India
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Anand Kumar M

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[Paolo Rosso]

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We invite you to take part in one of the following shared tasks:


1. Author Identification -- Given a document, who wrote it?
This task focuses on author clustering and style breach detection.
Author clustering will be done on short documents of paragraph length.
Style breach detection has the goal of identifying breaches of writing
style in longer texts.

2. Author Profiling -- Given a document, what're its author's traits?
This task focuses on gender and language variety identification on Twitter,
providing a corpus of tweets annotated with gender and native language of
their respective authors.

3. Author Obfuscation -- Given a document, hide its author.
This task works against identification and profiling by automatically
paraphrasing a text to obfuscate its author's style. The tasks offered are
author masking and obfuscation evaluation.


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