Preliminary announcement of the Second Anaphora Resolution Exercise (ARE)

Preliminary announcement of the Second Anaphora Resolution Exercise
http://www.anaphora-and-coreference.info/ARE2009 =


We are pleased to announce the second edition of the Anaphora Resolution
Exercise (ARE) organised in conjunction with the 7th Discourse Anaphora
and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC2009), between 5 and 6 Nov 2009.
The general objective of ARE is to develop discourse anaphora resolution
methods and to evaluate them in a common and consistent manner. The
Anaphora Resolution Exercise (ARE) was started with the goal of
developing discourse anaphora resolution methods and evaluating them in
a common and consistent manner. =


ARE2009 will focus on pronominal and NP coreference for Catalan, Dutch,
English and Spanish. In addition to this, a multilingual personal
pronoun resolution task will be offered together with a several
preprocessing tasks which will focus on identification of
non-referential pronouns for Dutch and English and identification of
elliptical subjects in Catalan and Spanish. =


The exercise proposes four anaphora/coreference resolution tasks: =


1. Pronominal resolution on pre-annotated texts.
2. Coreferential Chains resolution on pre-annotated texts. =

3. Pronominal resolution on raw texts. =

4. Coreferential Chains resolution on raw texts. =


The preprocessing tasks proposed are: =


1. Identification of pleonastic "it" pronouns in English texts =

2. Identification of pleonastic "het" pronouns in Dutch =

3. Identification of elliptical subjects in Spanish and Catalan =


Multilingual pronoun resolution task: =


The goal of this task is to encourage participants to develop =

multilingual pronoun resolution systems by giving them paragraphs in =

Catalan, Dutch, English and Spanish with the referential pronouns =

marked. Participants will have to determine the antecedent of a =

pronoun. =


Real time evalution of systems: =


If enough interest is expressed by the participants, these tasks will be
also offered as real-time tasks at DAARC2009. In the real-time =

evaluation, participants will have to solve the chosen tasks in one =

hour. The texts given for processing will be similar to those in the =

training data, but they could also include some different texts in order
to test the scalability of the systems. =


Proceedings:

Participants will be encouraged to submit 4 page reports which will be =

published in the DAARC proceedings. The results of this evaluation will =

be disseminated at DAARC where we plan to organise a round table and/or =

a poster session on this theme. =


Tentative Timeline: =


24th Nov 2008: the first announcement of ARE =

15th Jan 2009: release of the training data =

4th - 23rd May 2009 - Test data is released =

30th May 2009 - Results communicated back to participants =

6 June 2009 - 4 page technical reports due from participants =

20 June 2009 - Reviews back to participants =

1 July 2009 - Final version of technical reports =

5 - 6 Nov 2009 - DAARC2009, Goa, India =


Participation is open to all. To indicate your intention to participate =

or for any other issues please contact us on =

[email protected] =


Web page: http://www.anaphora-and-coreference.info/ARE2009 =


Organising committee: =

 * Antonio Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal =

 * Dan Cristea, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania =

 * V=E9ronique Hoste, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium =

 * Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK =

 * Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK =

 * Marta Recasens, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain =

 * Sobha L, AU-KBC Research Centre, India

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Dr. Constantin Orasan <[email protected]>
Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
Research Group in Computational Linguistics
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/
University of Wolverhampton
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