Shared Task on Speaker Attribution in Newswire and Parliamentary Debates

As previously announced, a new shared task on Speaker Attribution in German political discourse is taking place this spring and summer under the auspices of the GermEval Campaign. The goal of our shared task is the identification of speakers in political debates as well as in news articles, and the attribution of speech events to their respective speakers. Being able to identify this information automatically, i.e., identifying who says what to whom, is a necessary prerequisite for a deep semantic analysis of unstructured text.

Training and development data for Task 1, which focuses on speeches from the German Bundestag, has now been released on github https://github.com/umanlp/SpkAtt-2023.

Training and development data for Task 2, which focuses on speech in German news articles, has now been released on github https://github.com/uhh-lt/news-speaker-attribution-2023.

For more details about the shared task, including the task settings, datasets, evaluation metrics and link to the *registration* form, please visit the shared task website at CodaLab https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10431. The SpkAtt-2023 shared task is partially supported by the German Society for Computational Linguistics and endorsed by two of its Special Interest Groups, CPSS https://gscl.org/activities/politicssocialsciences/ and IGGSA https://sites.google.com/site/iggsahome.

The workshop for the shared task will be held as part of the Conference for Natural Language Processing (KONVENS https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023/ 2023) in Ingolstadt, Germany, in Sep 2023.

Important Dates

April 1, 2023 - *Training and development data release* 🗸 June 15, 2023 - Test data release (blind) July 1, 2023 - Submissions open July 31, 2023 - Submissions close August 14, 2023 - System descriptions due September 7, 2023 - Camera-ready system paper deadline September 18-22, 2023 - Workshop at KONVENS 2023

Organizing team

Ines Rehbein, Simone Ponzetto (U-Mannheim) Fynn Petersen-Frey, Chris Biemann (U-Hamburg) Josef Ruppenhofer, Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim)

Contact

fynn.petersen-frey at uni-hamburg.de, rehbein at uni-mannheim.de