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Call for Participation

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The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task on

Named Entities in Slavic Languages: http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html

Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-Lingual Linking http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html

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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.

and five types of named entities:

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persons,

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locations,

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organizations,

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events,

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products.

For information about training and test data, guidelines, and participation, please see the Shared Task Home Page. http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html

IMPORTANT: Participants are NOT required to perform all tasks or for all languages.  For example, a monolingual entry, without lemmatization of the names, can participate.

The Shared Task focuses on cross-lingual extraction of named entities — the systems should recognize, classify, and extract all mentions of a name in a document; detecting the positionof each 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 collection consists of sets of documents retrieved from the Web, each set about a certain major entity or event. The corpus was collected by crawling the Web and parsing the HTML documents.

For background, see the details about the1stedition (2017) http://bsnlp-2017.cs.helsinki.fi/shared_task.html, 2ndedition (2019) http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2019/shared_task.htmland the3rdedition (2021) http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.htmlof this shared task.

Participation

Teams that wish to participate should register via email to: bsnlp@cs.helsinki.fi, with the following information:

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name of team,

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team members,

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contact person,

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contact email.

Important Dates

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Shared task announcement: 11 January 2023 ⇒ Training data available

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Registration deadline: 19 February 2023

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Release of Testdata to registered participants: 20 February2023

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Submission of system responses: 22 February 2023

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Results announced to participants: 24February 2023

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Submission of shared task papers (optional): 27 February 2023

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