Website: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/d2t/
SCOPE
Every day, approximately 3000 new bio-medical articles are published on the Web. This averages to more than 2 articles every minute. In addition to the sheer amount of bio-medical information available on the Web, the variety of this information increases everyday and ranges from structured data in the form of ontologies to unstructured data in the form of documents.
BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing
and question answering (part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to
take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18 September, 2014)
Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq
CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
We are happy to announce that the first test for BioASQ Task 2b
(biomedical semantic QA) will take place in a few days!
If you are interested in any of the following areas:
* Question answering from unstructured and structured data
BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18 September, 2014)
Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq
CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 2a and Task 2b).
If you are interested in any of the following areas:
* Large-scale and hierarchical classification
* Machine learning
* Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity
(Apologies for multiple postings)
The program for the INLG 2012 conference is available at
http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/conference-program
And one final reminder that the deadline for early registration for INLG 2012 is Mon 4/30 noon CST (-6 gmt) [please note time]
Best wishes,
Barbara Di Eugenio and Susan McRoy
INLG 2012 Co-Chairs
Please visit the INLG 2012 web site for a list of accepted papers, and a link to the registration form.
INLG web site: http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/
Direct link to registration: https://aclweb.org/conference/inlg2012/
IMPORTANT: early registration ends on Apr 30, NOON CST (GMT -6).
As usual for the INLG conferences, registration is comprehensive of registration proper, room & board, and coach transportation from downtown Chicago to Starved Rock, and back.
GENERATION CHALLENGES 2012
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To be held in conjunction with INLG 2012, 30 May-01 June 2012, Starved Rock, IL, USA.
Over the past five years, there has been a lot of activity in
connection with shared tasks in Natural Language Generation (NLG).
Six separate sets of shared tasks each with its own data and team of
organisers have so far been run: TUNA (Gatt et al.), GREC (Belz et
al.), GIVE (Koller et al.), QG (Rus et al.), HOO (Dale and Kilgarriff)
SR (Belz, White et al.). The Pilot Attribute Selection for
INLG 2012, the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL, May 30-June 1, 2012.
Further details on the program, an updated CFP with submission
information and downloadable style files, and the full program
committee is now available at the conference web site
http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/
Highlights:
1. Invited speakers: Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware; and James Lester,
North Carolina State University
2. Submission web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/
The 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2012) will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica IL, USA, May 30 - June 1 2012. (INLG 2012 will closely precede NAACL, which will be June 3 - 8 in Montreal.) Starved Rock State Park is about 94 miles/150 kilometers south of Chicago's O'Hare airport. See http://www.starvedrockstatepark.org for more information.
A full CFP will be circulated shortly, but here we include the *IMPORTANT DATES*
GIVE-2.5: NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments
*** Please take this last opportunity to help us evaluate NLG systems by
*** going on a virtual treasure hunt.
*** Several software improvements have been made, so please try again if
*** you had problems before!
Part of Generation Challenges 2011
Endorsed by SIGGEN and SIGSEM
Dear colleagues,
