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Call for Participation
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The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task:
Named Entities in Slavic Languages —
Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-Lingual Linking
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co-located with the Slav-NLP http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/Workshop, EACL 2023
http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html
TASK DESCRIPTION:
The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task focuses on Named Entities in Slavic languages.
Due to rich inflection, free word order, derivation, and other phenomena common to the Slavic languages, work on Named Entities poses important challenges. Fostering research & development on the problems of Named Entities — detecting names, lemmatization (normalization), classification, and cross-lingual matching — is crucial for information access and wider use of NLP in Slavic languages.
The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task covers three languages:
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Czech,
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Polish,
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Russian.
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with five types of named entities:
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persons,
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locations,
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organizations,
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*products*
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***events,*.
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For information about training and test data, and *guidelines* please see Shared Task Home Page. http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html
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IMPORTANT: Participants are *NOT* required to perform all tasks or for all languages. For example, a monolingual entry, without lemmatization, can participate.
The Shared Task focuses on cross-lingual extraction of named entities — the systems should recognize, classify, and extract the names in a document. Detecting the positionof every name mention is NOT required. Name mentions should be lemmatized, and mentions referring to the same real-world object should be linked across documents and languages. The text collections consist of documents retrieved from the Web, each set about a major /entity or event/. The corpus was collected by crawling the Web and parsing the HTML documents.
For background, see the1^st edition (2017) http://bsnlp-2017.cs.helsinki.fi/shared_task.html, 2^nd edition (2019) http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2019/shared_task.htmland the3^rd edition (2021) http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.htmlof this shared task.
Participation
Participating teams should register via email to: bsnlp@cs.helsinki.fiwith the following information:
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name of team,
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team members,
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contact person and *email.*
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Important Dates
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Shared task announcement: 11 January 2023 ⇒ *Training Data Available* !
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Registration deadline: *06 March 2023*
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Release of *Test**Data* to registered participants: 07 March2023
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Submission of system responses: 09 March 2023
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Results announced to participants: 11March 2023
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Submission of shared task papers: 13 March 2023
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Camera-ready shared task papers: 03 April 2023
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Roman Yangarber