SemEval 2019 - the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
SemEval 2019
Contact: 
Aurelie Herbelot

Dear all,

We are delighted to announce eleven new exciting tasks for the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2019).

*Frame semantics and semantic parsing*
Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA
Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction

*Opinion, emotion and abusive language detection*
Task 3: EmoContext: Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection
Task 5: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter
Task 6: OffensEval: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media

*Fact vs fiction*
Task 7: RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours
Task 8: Fact Checking in Community Question Answering Forums

*Information extraction and question answering*
Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums
Task 10: Math Question Answering

*NLP for scientific applications*
Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific Papers

You can access the detailed task descriptions following the links provided on the SemEval-2019 webpage: http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2019/index.php?id=tasks

IMPORTANT DATES:

10 Jan 2019: Evaluation start
31 Jan 2019: Evaluation end
05 Feb 2019: Results posted
28 Feb 2019: System and Task description paper submissions due by 23:59 GMT -12:00
06 Apr 2019: Author notifications
20 Apr 2019: Camera ready submissions due
Summer 2019: SemEval 2019

Trial data and evaluation scripts are now ready and available on the CodaLab website for each task. You can download them through the direct links, when provided, or after registering to participate in the task (“Participate” tab).

CHAIRS
Jonathan May, USC ISI
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Amsterdam
Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento
Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University
Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI-CNRS & University of Pennsylvania
Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

The SemEval discussion group
Please join our discussion group at semeval3 [at] googlegroups.com in order to receive announcements and participate in discussions.

The SemEval-2019 Website
http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2019/

Contact: semeval-organizers [at] googlegroups.com
For questions on a particular task, post them at the *task* mailing list or contact the task organizers directly. You can find the task mailing list from the task webpage.

Best regards,
The SemEval 2019 Organizers