*SEM

 
*SEM Shared Task: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

ACL special interest groups SIGLEX and SIGSEM invite proposals for the 
*SEM Shared Task 2012.

*SEM is the first joint conference on lexical and computational 
semantics. The main goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the 
growing number of NLP researchers working on different aspects of 
semantic processing, which has been scattered over a large array of 
small workshops and conferences. The first edition of *SEM will be a 
two-day conference collocated with the North American Chapter of the 
Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language 
Technologies 2012 conference (NAACL HLT), which will take place in 
Montreal, Canada.

Every year *SEM is planning to include a shared task in which 
training and test data are provided by the organizers, which allows 
participating systems to be evaluated and compared in a systematic way. 
Descriptions of the participating systems and an evaluation of their 
performance will be presented both at the conference and in the 
proceedings. The same or similar shared tasks may be chosen for several 
years in a row to focus the research attention of the community on a 
particular semantic task. For *SEM 2012, proposals are invited for any 
shared task related to lexical or computational semantics.

Note that this shared task will be held in addition to the SemEval 
tasks. SemEval task organizers are welcome to submit their task for the 
shared task. If accepted, their task will be moved from SemEval to the 
shared task of *SEM.

Proposals should contain the following information:
- Names and affiliations of the members of the organizing committee
  (including a designated contact person)
- Description of the shared task, including its relevance for the study 
  of computational and lexical semantics
- Description of the process for selecting, acquiring and preparing
  the data for training and evaluation, including conditions of 
  availability
- Description of the procedure for evaluating the performance of 
  participating systems, including the availability of evaluation software
- Any other relevant information

Proposals should be in PDF format, maximum 2 pages, and sent by 
e-mail to (
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Important Dates:
 
Shared Task Proposals due: 15 November 2011
Accept/Reject decision due: 25 November 2011


Any questions regarding the proposals can be sent to (
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The expected timeline for the *SEM shared task 2012 is as follows:

- Dec 1: general announcement
- Dec 15: call for interest in participation
- Dec 15: task website (first version with general information,
  task definition, examples and calendar)
- Dec 15: trial datasets (plus documentation and scorer)
- Jan 13: registration for the task (plus corpora licenses)
- Jan 15: training and development sets available
- Feb 21: test set available
- Mar 1: systems' outputs collected


*SEM Shared Task Committee:

*SEM General Chair: Eneko Agirre
*SEM co-chairs : Johan Bos, Mona Diab
Shared Task Co-chairs : Suresh Manandhar and Deniz Yuret




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