CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2025
The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology.
This year's shared task is: Normalizing Adverse Drug Event mentions.
The tentative key dates are:
Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data
24 Sep 2025 - Release of test data
29 Sep 2025 - Deadline of submission of runs
03 Oct 2025 - Notification of results
27 Oct 2025 - Deadline of submission of system description
26-28 Nov 2024 - Presentation of results at ALTA 2025
Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (https://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2025)
Good luck!
Diego
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Dr. Diego Mollá-Aliod
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing | Room 358 (Level 3), 4 Research Park Drive
Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
T: +61 2 9850 9531 | F: +61 2 9850 9551
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