[Ligncse256] [Fwd: [Corpora-List] CoNLL 2008: Call for Papers]

[Roger Levy]

Hi everyone,

FYI: CoNLL is one of the leading conferences in NLP.  It's a good place 
to submit work of either a purely engineering nature or work with a 
somewhat cognitive-science bent (especially as regards language 
acquisition).  The deadline is the end of April so any of you who wind 
up with a good final project and are ambitious might wind up in a 
position to consider the possibility of extending the project into a 
CoNLL submission.

One interesting thing about CoNLL is that every year it has a "shared 
task", with a clearly defined dataset, inference task, and evaluation 
metric.  You can register to participate and will be provided datasets. 
  Participation involves building a system, submitting it to the 
evaluation, and submitting a paper. This year, the timeline is 
particularly good for our class: the trial dataset will be distributed 
February 25, the full training & development datasets will be 
distributed March 10, and submission of test runs & papers are due in 
late to mid May.  This shared task is a perfectly good (and rather 
interesting) topic for a class final project.  You need to register by 
February 20 to participate.  Take a look at the task description here:

   http://www.yr-bcn.es/conll2008/

and if it interests you, consider registering (and talk to me about it!).

Roger

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Roger Levy                      Email: rlevy at ucsd.edu
Assistant Professor             Phone: 858-534-7219
Department of Linguistics       Fax:   858-534-4789
UC San Diego                    Web:   http://ling.ucsd.edu/~rlevy
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