[Sigwac] CLEANEVAL Web-as-Corpus exercise

[Adam Kilgarriff]

CLEANEVAL is a shared task and competitive evaluation for cleaning arbitrary
web pages, with the goal of preparing web data for use as a corpus, for
linguistic and language technology research and development.  You are
invited to participate, and to encourage others to do so too.

Development
<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Adam\My%20Documents\Academic\CLEANEVA
L\devset.html>  dataset now available. 

*	Prizes! A prize of £250.00 (GBP) will be awarded for the best
student entrant for each task (Chinese and English). 
*	Fuller description
http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk/cleaneval-overview.html
<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Adam\My%20Documents\Academic\CLEANEVA
L\cleaneval-overview.html> . 
*	Timetable: 

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*	March 2007: Development datasets released (English and Chinese) 
*	June 2007: Exercise: Evaluation dataset released and, two weeks
later, participants to return cleaned pages 
*	end June 2007: Papers describing systems to be submitted 
*	Sept 15-16 2007: Workshop, part of WAC3, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be/wac3/ 

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*	Annotation guidelines
http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk/annotation_guidelines.html
<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Adam\My%20Documents\Academic\CLEANEVA
L\annotation_guidelines.html> . 
*	Co-ordinators 

*	Marco Baroni <http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/> , Trento University,
Italy 
*	Tony Hartley <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cts/staff/tony_hartley.htm> ,
Leeds University, UK 
*	Adam Kilgarriff <http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk> , Lexical Computing
Ltd., Leeds and Sussex Universities, UK 
*	Serge Sharoff <http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/ssharoff/> , Leeds
University, UK 

 

CLEANEVAL is an activity of ACL-SIGWAC <http://sigwac.org.uk> , the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) <http://www.aclweb.org>
Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus.