Dear everyone,
as many of you are hard at work with getting ready for the final
software submission deadline, we have uncovered a couple of problems
and inconsistencies that needed fixing. We hope that fixing these
problems at your end will not give you a hard time, however, in order
not to add to the stress, we decided to extend the final software
submission deadline 2 weeks in order to give everyone time to breathe.
The new final software submission deadline is on March 1, 2014.
For those of you who work on author profiling, please take not of the
most recent update of the training data which have been uploaded to
the task web page today:
http://www.webis.de/research/corpora/corpus-pan-labs-09-today/pan-14/pan14-data/pan14-author-profiling-training-corpus-2014-04-09.zip
The changes to the corpus include the unification of the 65+-label for
which there have been a couple of different versions in the corpus.
You can download the new corpus version, and you will also find also
mounted into your virtual machines right now.
If you find any further problems, please let us know as early as possible.
Martin
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Martin Potthast
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
www.webis.de ---
www.netspeak.org