PAN 2017: Open Source Proceedings

[Martin Potthast]

Dear everyone,

as announced at the outset, we would like to collect as many of the code bases underlying your submission as possible, if you are willing to share, and compile an open source proceedings volume for this year's shared task on GitHub.

For this purpose, we opened a GitHub organization at https://github.com/pan-webis-de

It will serve as a central place where people working on this subject will look.

For those of you who requested a private repository (and pushed code to it), we will transfer your repository to this organization for publication.

For everyone else, you can still join the party! We'd like to encourage you to share your code as well. This will maximize the reproducibility of your approach, give it more visibility, and allow others to build on top of your work. Even if the performance of your approach hasn't been stellar, it is still useful to share.

Should you plan on sharing your code somewhere else, let us know where, and we can fork your repository, so that it will also show up as part of the open source proceedings alongside the others.

Please get back to me as soon as possible.

Best,

Martin

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Dr. Martin Potthast
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Digital Bauhaus Lab
Bauhausstr. 9a
99423 Weimar
Germany

+49 3643 58 3567
+49 171 809 1945

www.potthast.net

[Paolo Rosso]

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PAN 2018: Call for Participation
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We invite you to take part in the following shared tasks:

1. Author Identification -- Given a document, who wrote it?
One subtask focuses on cross-domain authorship attribution applied in
fanfiction and another subtask focuses on style change detection.

2. Multimodal Author Profiling -- Given a document, what're its
author's traits?
This task focuses on gender, whereas text and image may be used as
information sources of tweets in English, Spanish and Arabic.

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.

Learn more at http://pan.webis.de/clef18/pan18-web/index.html

PAN is held in conjunction with the CLEF'18 conference in Avignon, France.
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Important Dates
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now open Registration
Mar 15, 2018 Early bird software submission
Apr 15, 2018 Final software submission
May 11, 2018 TIRA evaluation
May 31, 2018 Notebook submission
June 29, 2018 Camery-ready participant papers submission
Sep 10-14, 2018 Conference

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Special Announcements
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PAN Open Source Proceedings
PAN hosts a growing collection of software developed by previous
participants at GitHub: https://github.com/pan-webis-de
We invite you to publish your software here, too.

Software submissions.
After a great success with more than 150 submitted software from
previous years, we are happy to announce that we will continue our
initiative to invite software submissions using TIRA.

Paolo Rosso
PRHLT Research Center
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
URL: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~prosso
email: pro...@dsic.upv.es
tel: +34 963877007 ext. 73571