[Sigwac] Final Call: CogALex-V Shared Task on the Corpus-Based Identification of Semantic Relations

[Stefan Evert]

CogALex-V Shared Task on the Corpus-Based Identification of Semantic Relations
Submission deadline: 16 October 2016, 23:59 GMT

The organizers of the COLING 2016 Workshop CogALex-V are pleased to announce a Shared Task on the Corpus-Based Identification of Semantic Relations.  Semantic relations play an important role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and in human lexical retrieval. Corpus-based approaches to semantic relation identification do not only help to perform NLP tasks, but they can also shed light on the organization of the mental lexicon.

The shared task takes the form of a “friendly competition” in which participants evaluate their own models. It is divided into two subtasks aimed at identifying whether two words are semantically related and which particular relation holds between them, respectively.  A dataset extracted from EVALution 1.0 (Santus et al. 2015) is provided for training and testing of the models.  Short papers describing systems and evaluation results must be submitted by 15 October 2016 together with the system output.  All papers that meet the formal review criteria will be published in the workshop proceedings.  Teams are still welcome to participate in the Shared Task even if they have not registered yet – please send an expression of interest by e-mail to esantus at gmail.com in this case.

For further details and downloads see the task homepage:

	https://sites.google.com/site/cogalex2016/home/shared-task

and join our Google group:

	https://groups.google.com/d/forum/cogalexv 

Important Dates
	8 Sep 2016: Task description and training data released
	27 Sep 2016: Test data and evaluation scripts released
	16 Oct 2016, 23:59 GMT: Submission of system description papers (4 pages) and system output
	 - please follow the submission instructions at https://sites.google.com/site/cogalex2016/home/shared-task#submission
	 - submission through START manager at https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/ (set submission type to "Shared Task (4 pages)")
	25 Oct 2016: Reviews returned
	2 Nov 2016: Camera-ready deadline (strict!)
	12 Dec 2016: Workshop Date

Shared Task Organizers
	Stefan Evert – stefan.evert at fau.de 
	Alessandro Lenci – alessandro.lenci at unipi.it 
	Enrico Santus – esantus at gmail.com