VarDial Evaluation Campaign on Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

[Preslav Nakov]

VarDial Evaluation Campaign on Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

Call for Participation

Within the scope of the VarDial workshop, co-located with EACL 2017,

we are organising an evaluation campaign on similar languages,

varieties and dialects with multiple tasks.

URL: http://ttg.uni-saarland.de/vardial2017/sharedtask2017.html

We are offering four tasks this year:

- (DSL) Discriminating between Similar Languages

Fourth iteration of the DSL task featuring a multilingual dataset

containing excerpts of journalistic texts. Languages included this

year grouped by similarity are: Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, Malay

and Indonesian, Persian and Dari, Canadian and Hexagonal French,

Brazilian and European Portuguese, Argentine, Peninsular, and Peruvian

Spanish.

- (ADI) Arabic Dialect Identification

Second iteration of the task included in the DSL 2016. This year we

will be releasing acoustic data along with speech transcripts for the

following Arabic dialects: Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine, and

North-African, and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

- (GDI) German Dialect Identification

In addition to Arabic dialects, we propose an analogous task on the

identification of four Swiss German dialect areas: Basel, Bern,

Lucerne, Zurich. We will provide manually annotated speech transcripts

for all dialect areas.

- (CLP) Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing

The task is to develop models for parsing selected target languages

without annotated training data in that language but annotated data in

one or two closely related languages. We will include the following

language pairs:

Target language = Croatian, Source language = Slovenian

Target language = Slovak, Source language = Czech

Target language = Norwegian, Source languages = Danish and Swedish

We will be releasing the training data on Tuesday (December 27) and

the test sets on January 25, 2017.

To participate please fill the registration form available at the

workshop website.

[Preslav Nakov]

(apologies for cross-posting)

VarDial Evaluation Campaign on Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

2nd Call for Participation

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Within the scope of the VarDial workshop, co-located with EACL 2017, we are organising an evaluation campaign on similar languages, varieties and dialects with multiple tasks.

URL: http://ttg.uni-saarland.de/vardial2017/sharedtask2017.html

We are offering four tasks this year:

- (DSL) Discriminating between Similar Languages

Fourth iteration of the DSL task featuring a multilingual dataset containing excerpts of journalistic texts. Languages included this year grouped by similarity are: Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, Malay and Indonesian, Persian and Dari, Canadian and Hexagonal French, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Argentine, Peninsular, and Peruvian Spanish.

- (ADI) Arabic Dialect Identification

Second iteration of the task included in the DSL 2016. This year we will be releasing acoustic data along with speech transcripts for the following Arabic dialects: Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine, and North-African, and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

- (GDI) German Dialect Identification

In addition to Arabic dialects, we propose an analogous task on the identification of four Swiss German dialect areas: Basel, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich. We will provide manually annotated speech transcripts for all dialect areas.

- (CLP) Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing

The task is to develop models for parsing selected target languages without annotated training data in that language but annotated data in one or two closely related languages. We will include the following language pairs:

Target language = Croatian, Source language = Slovenian

Target language = Slovak, Source language = Czech

Target language = Norwegian, Source languages = Danish and Swedish

To participate and receive the training data please fill the registration form available at the workshop website. The test sets will be released on January 25, 2017.

Best,

The VarDial organizers

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