Eneko Agirre from the Ixa Group is one of the organizers of the 6th task in SemEval-2012: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity. Aitor Gonzalez from Ixa is also involved in the task.
The Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) series of workshops focuses on the evaluation of semantic analysis systems. with the aim of comparing systems that can analyse diverse semantic phenomena in text. SemEval-2012 will be associated with the new *SEM, First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, and co-located with NAACL HLT, Montreal, Canada.
SemEval-2012 provides development, training and test datasets for a range of interesting and challenging semantic analysis problems.
Here are the data for SemEval-2012 Task 6.
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