2nd Call for Participation: Multilingual Coreference Resolution - Indian Languages (MCR-IL) 2025 Shared Task @RANLP 2025
Pattabhi RK
Coreference Resolution (CR) is the task of finding all linguistic expressions (called mentions) in a given text or document that refer to the same real-world entity. Mentions are textual references to real world entities, like people, places or organizations. There are many challenges associated with coreference resolution and they include language ambiguity, different ways of referring to entities, and the need to understand context. Coreference Resolution (CR) is the task of finding all linguistic expressions (called mentions) in a given text or document that refer to the same real-world entity. Mentions are textual references to real world entities, like people, places or organizations. There are many challenges associated with coreference resolution and they include language ambiguity, different ways of referring to entities, and the need to understand context.
This shared task deals with multilingual coreference resolution and has the following tasks
Task A: Anaphora resolution in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu The anaphors include Pronominals, Reflexives, Reciprocals, Distributives
Task B: Coreference Resolution in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu
The participants will develop NLP systems for the two tasks mentioned
Task A: Anaphora resolution in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu Participants are expected to develop systems which resolve the anaphora and its antecedent in the languages mentioned. The data provided will be annotated for anaphor-antecedent pairs in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. The anaphors include Pronominals, Reflexives, Reciprocals, Distributives. The participants have to resolve all types of anaphors mentioned above.
Task B: Coreference Resolution in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu The participants are expected to develop systems which will give the coreference chains. The coreference chain annotated texts in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu will be given as dataset to the participants.
Timeline
First Call: 20th Feb 2025Training Data:
Testing Data: 25th May 2025
System Runs submission: 28th May 2025
Result Notification: 5th June 2025
System Description Paper submission: 9th June 2025
System Paper Notification: 15th June 2025
Final Camera Ready Submission: 20th June 2025 (hard deadline; cannot be postponed)
(All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00, “Anywhere on Earth”)
Dr. Pattabhi RK Rao,
MIT Campus of Anna University,
Chennai, India