Competitions and Challenges

The competitions and challenges below are categorized by the year in which they were or will be completed, in those cases in which they begin in one year and end in a later year.

2008

• CLEF 2008 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
• NER-SSEAL 2008 - IJCNLP Workshop on NER for South and South East Asian Languages

2007

• ACE 2007 - Automatic Content Extraction 2007
• CLEANEVAL 2007 - Cleaning pages for Web corpus creation
• CLEF 2007 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
• DUC-2007 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
• EVALITA 2007 - Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian
• Medical NLP Challenge - The Computational Medicine Center's 2007 Medical Natural Language Processing Challenge
• Morpho Challenge 2007 - unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes
• RTE-3 - Third Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge (RTE-3 Resources Pool)
• SemEval-2007 - 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
• Spock Challenge - (task: name discrimination/disambiguation in Web text)
• TREC 2007 Text REtrieval Conference

2006

• CLEF 2006 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
• DUC-2006 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
• RTE-2 - Second Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
• TREC 2006 Text REtrieval Conference

2005

• CLEF 2005 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
• DUC-2005 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
• Morpho Challenge 2005 - unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes
• RTE-1 - Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
• TREC 2005 Text REtrieval Conference

2004

• CLEF 2004 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
• DUC-2004 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
• Senseval 3 - evaluation exercises for Word Sense Disambiguation
• TREC 2004 Text REtrieval Conference

2003

• DUC-2003 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)

2002

• DUC-2002 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)