shared task

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

*SEM Shared Task 2012: Call for Proposals

ACL special interest groups SIGLEX and SIGSEM invites proposals for the *SEM Shared Task 2012.

GIVE-2.5: Last Call for Participation/System Submissions
http://www.give-challenge.org/research/

Part of Generation Challenges 2011
Endorsed by SIGGEN and SIGSEM

We invite you to participate in the next edition of the Challenges on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE) by submitting an NLG system for the GIVE scenario. In this scenario, a human user performs a "treasure hunt" task in a virtual 3D environment. The NLG system's job is to generate, in real time, a sequence of natural-language instructions that will help the user perform this task.

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Patent Machine Translation Task (PatentMT) at NTCIR-9
Call for Participation

December 6-9, 2011, Tokyo, Japan
http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/PatentMT/

- A Chinese to English subtask newly added
- Human evaluations will be carried out
- Parallel corpora provided: 1 million Chinese-English and
3 million Japanese-English sentence pairs