I took part in this last year and it was a fun experience, but in order to participate you need quite a big team (I'd say around 4-5 people minimum).
F. El 2017-02-16 23:30, Mikel L. Forcada escribió: > FYI > > -------- Missatge reenviat -------- > > ASSUMPTE: > [Mt-list] LoReHLT 2017 Low-Resource Language Technology > evaluation > > DATA: > Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:28:39 +0000 > > DE: > Soboroff, Ian (Fed) <[email protected]> > > A: > [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Dear All, > > NIST is pleased to announce the second Low Resource Human Language > Technology Evaluation (LoReHLT17) to support the development of human > language technology (HLT) that can provide rapid and effective > response to emerging incidents where the language resources are very > limited. The evaluation consists of three tasks: > > - Machine Translation > - Entity Discovery and Linking > - Situation Frame (lightweight event extraction) > > As with the first LoReHLT evaluation, participants may choose to > participate in any or all of the above tasks. > > In LoReHLT, the evaluation language is a surprise, and is announced at > the start of the evaluation period. The evaluation centers on an > emergency scenario, such as a tsunami or earthquake, where > humanitarian assistance and disaster relief agencies need situational > awareness support but have no NLP technology available to deploy. > There is no training data in the evaluation language per se. Instead, > participants are invited to pivot from other related languages, take > advantage of language "universals", use transliteration, or attempt to > quickly bootstrap training resources during the evaluation. > > For year two, there will actually be TWO surprise evaluation languages > released simultaneously. You can do one or both. There will be a > dry-run in July and the format evaluation period is in August, 2017. > > The LDC has made a number of resources available in "related > languages", including Hungarian, Amharic, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Farsi and > more. Participants are invited to use these resources as starting > points to pivot to the surprise evaluation language. > > For further information regarding the evaluation and schedule, please > consult the evaluation plan which can be found at > https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/lorehlt17-evaluations > > We look forward to your participation LoReHLT17. > _______________________________________________ > Mt-list site list > [email protected] > http://lists.eamt.org/mailman/listinfo/mt-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
