UPDATE: Following requests, we extend the deadline for system submissions for the MultiGED-2023 shared task by one week according to the following:

27 February, 2023 06 March, 2023 - test data released

03 March, 2023 10 March, 2023 - system submission deadline (system output)

10 March, 2023 14 March, 2023 - results announced

03 April, 2023 - paper submission deadline with system descriptions.

Call for participation -- Shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection (MultiGED-2023) on Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish Official website for the shared task: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023

The Computational SLAhttps://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/compsla working group invites you to participate in the first shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection, MultiGED-2023, which includes five languages: Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish.

The aim of this shared task is to detect tokens in need of correction across five different languages, labeling them as either correct ("c") or incorrect ("i"), i.e. performing binary classification at the token level. You can work on one of the provided languages or any combination of languages. More details about the task: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023

The shared task is part of the NLP4CALL workshophttps://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-series/nlp4call2023, which will take place on 22 May 2023, co-located with the NoDaLiDa conference https://www.nodalida2023.fo/ to be held in the Faroe Islands. Accepted papers with systems descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings and double-published through the ACL anthology.

Timeline:

* 23 January, 2023 - first call for participation. Training and validation data released, CodaLab opens for team registrations. * 14 February, 2023 - second call/reminder * 03 March, 2023 10 March, 2023 - system submission deadline (system output) * 10 March, 2023 14 March, 2023 - results announced * 03 April, 2023 - paper submission deadline with system descriptions. We encourage you to share models, code, fact sheets, extra data, etc. with the community through github or other repositories on paper publication.

* 21 April, 2023 - paper reviews sent to the authors * 01 May, 2023 - camera-ready deadline * 22 May, 2023 - presentations of the systems at NLP4CALL workshop

To register for/express interest in the shared task, please fill in this form https://forms.gle/DgwTNmTCQhsmrbxq6. To ask questions and to get important information and updates about the shared task, please join the MultiGED-2023 Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/multiged-2023. Official system evaluation will be carried out on CodaLab https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9784.

Organizers:

* Elena Volodinahttps://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Chris Bryanthttps://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/cjb255, University of Cambridge, UK * Andrew Caineshttps://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~apc38/, University of Cambridge, UK * Orphee De Clercqhttps://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/orphee.declercq, Ghent University, Belgium * Jennifer-Carmen Freyhttps://www.eurac.edu/en/people/jennifer-carmen-frey, EURAC Research, Italy * Elizaveta Ershova, JetBrains, Cyprus * Alexandr Rosenhttp://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~rosen/, Charles University, Czech Republic * Olga Vinogradova, Independent researcher, Israel

Please, feel free to forward this call to those who might be interested.

___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim