CFP for the Second Shared Task on Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) at FIRE-2018

[Anand Kumar]

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Call for Participation
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CFP for the Second Shared Task on Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) held in conjunction with the Forum for Information Retrieval  
Evaluation (FIRE) 2018 on 7th - 9th December 2018 at DAIICT, Gandhinagar.

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This is the Second version of the Shared Task on Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) conducted at FIRE-2017 at IISc Bangalore.
A shared task on Native Language Identification (NLI) has been organized in 2013 at NAACL-HLT and a second one is planned at EMNLP  
2017. At INLI, given a set a set of Facebook comments in English, the focus is on identifying the Indian native language of the writer. Six are
the Indian languages that will be addressed: Tamil, Hindi,  Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, and Telugu.

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INLI@FIRE2017 Overview Paper
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ceur-ws.org/Vol-2036/T4-1.pdf

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Awards
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Cash awards for the top 2 best performing teams will be given.
We are glad to invite all the researchers working on the relevant  
research areas to participate in the INLI shared task.
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  Important Dates
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•        3rd May - Registration Starts
•        15th May – Training data released
•        15th June– Test data released
•        25th June– Run submission deadline
•        5th July – Results declared
•        15th August– Working notes due
•        December 7-9, 2018:  FIRE 2018 Conference at DAIICT, Gandhinagar.
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Registration
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  Registration is now open. You can register at the INLI website:
  Task website:  http://nlp.amrita.edu/inli/
  FIRE Conference website: http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2018/home

Contact email: inli...@cb.amrita.edu
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Task Coordinators
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  Anand Kumar M, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India
  Soman K P, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

with regards-

Dr.Anand Kumar M
Assistant Professor (SG), CEN,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Coimbatore-India.
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