[Dbworld] CFP: IBEREVAL 2017 - Task: Multilingual Web Person Name Disambiguation (M-WePNaD)

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First Call for Participation
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IBEREVAL 2017:
Task: Multilingual Web Person Name Disambiguation (M-WePNaD)
Webpage: http://nlp.uned.es/IberEval-2017/index.php/Tasks/M-WePNaD

held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2017 International conference
19th September 2017, University of Murcia, Murcia (Spain)


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This task focuses on the disambiguation of person names in web search results
for person name queries. The search results are realistic web search results;
they: are multilingual, include social media profiles, include pages that
contain no reference to the person name query, and vary in the number of unique
referents. This poses interesting additional challenges to earlier tasks like
WePS-1, WePS-2, and WePS-3.

The organisers have compiled a corpus of 100 queries, annotated by three
experts. A random sample of 65 of these queries will be released as a training
set. Participants will have nearly two months to develop their disambiguation
algorithms. Then, the 35 remaining test queries will be released, without
annotations, and participants are requested to submit runs on test data. The
organizers will evaluate the performance of the participants and put together a
ranked list of systems.

We cordially invite all researchers and practitioners from all fields to
participate in this task: Multilingual Web Person Name Disambiguation. We also
invite the participants to subscribe to our Google mailing list in order to be
kept up to date with the latest news related to the task:
m-wepnad at googlegroups dot com
To receive updates on Twitter, follow our account @mwepnad2017


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Important Dates
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13 Mar, 2017: Training set released.
08 May, 2017: Test set released.
11 May, 2017: Deadline for submission of results.
18 May, 2017: Competition results announced.
01 Jun, 2017: Deadline for participants to submit Working notes.
15 Jun, 2017: Reviews of Working notes sent out to authors.
01 Jul, 2017: Deadline to submit revised Working notes.
19 Sep, 2017: Workshop at SEPLN 2017.


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Track Coordinators
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Soto Montalvo (URJC, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain)
Raquel Martínez (UNED, Madrid, Spain)
Víctor Fresno (UNED, Madrid, Spain)
Agustín D. Delgado (UNED, Madrid, Spain)
Arkaitz Zubiaga (University of Warwick, England)
Richard Berendsen (Luminis Amsterdam, The Netherlands)


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Contact
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E-mail: m-wepnadorganizers at listserv dot uned dot es
Track Web page:  http://nlp.uned.es/IberEval-2017/index.php/Tasks/M-WePNaD
Twitter: M-WePNaD on Twitter: @mwepnad2017
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