CLEF-Lab on Plagiarism Detection, Author Identification, and Wikipedia Vandalism Detection (PAN'11)
Martin Potthast
below is the call for participation for this year's PAN lab. Please
note that this year we will be organizing an exciting new task about
author identification. We already accept early bird registrations, and
some of the corpora for this year's tasks are already available.
We would highly appreciate, if you could distribute this CfP to
interested colleagues.
Best regards,
Martin
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Call for Participation
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Competition on
Plagiarism Detection, Author Identification, and Wikipedia Vandalism Detection
held in conjunction with the CLEF'11 conference
in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19-22
http://pan.webis.de
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This year's edition divides into three tasks, namely plagiarism detection,
author identification, and Wikipedia vandalism detection.
Plagiarism detection in text documents is a challenging retrieval task:
today's detection systems are faced with intricate situations, such as
paraphrased plagiarism within and across languages. Moreover, the source of
a plagiarism case may be hidden within a large collection of documents such
as the Web, or it may not be available at all. Building on the successful
evaluation framework developed in the last two years, we continue to add
new challenges this year.
Author identification is the task of determining the true author of a text.
Throughout history and especially today, many texts are written anonymously
or under false names, so that readers may not be certain of a text's alleged
author. Within author identification, one of the main challenges is to
automatically attribute a text to one of a set of known candidate authors.
For the purpose of the evaluation, we have developed a new authorship
evaluation corpus.
Vandalism has always been one of Wikipedia's biggest problems. However,
the detection of vandalism is done mostly manually by volunteers, and
research on automatic vandalism detection is still in its infancy. Hence,
solutions are to be developed which aid Wikipedians in their efforts.
We invite researchers and practitioners from all fields to participate.
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Important Dates
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open Registration
May 31, 2011 Result submission deadline
Jun 30, 2011 Notebook submission deadline
Sep 19-22, 2011 Conference
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Organization
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Webis @ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
http://www.webis.de
NLEL @ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
http://www.dsic.upv.es/grupos/nle
Efstathios Stamatatos, University of the Aegean
http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/lecturers/stamatatos
Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University
http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel
Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology
http://lingcog.iit.edu/~argamon/
Patrick Juola, Duquesne University
http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~juola/
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Contact
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E-mail: p...@webis.de
Campaign Web page: http://pan.webis.de