Shared Task on Transliteration of Named Entities
Named Entities (NE) play a crucial role in many monolingual and multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as document search, clustering, information extraction, etc. The phenomenal growth of the Internet data and the dramatic changes in the user demographics especially among the non-English speaking parts of the world, has made identification, association and transformation of Named Entities across languages a critical path problem for most NLP and IR Tasks.
The Sixth Workshop on Named Entities (NEWS 2016) together with a Shared Task on Transliteration is a continuous effort on top of the success of NEWS 2009 (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), NEWS 2010 (ACL 2010), NEWS 2011(IJCNLP 2011), NEWS 2012 (ACL 2012) and NEWS 2015 (ACL 2015). NEWS 2016 continues the tradition to run a Shared Task on Transliteration, which aims to provide a common platform for benchmarking the transliteration approaches and systems across many languages.
For additional details about the Workshop and the Shared Task, please refer to the Workshop's website.
Shared Task on Transliteration of Named Entities
As in previous years' competitions, the quality of the transliteration task is measured using the following 4 metrics:
Participants can submit several runs for each individual language pair phase. Notice this is the NON-STANDARD SUBMISSION competition. In non-standard runs, in addition to the training and development data provided by the Shared Task, participants are welcomed to use external data, either parallel or monolingual. Each submission can contain up to 10 output candidates in a ranked list for each input entry.
Each system output submission must be saved in a file named "results.xml" and submitted into the system in a .zip compressed file format. For more details on how to prepare your submissions, please refer to the Shared Task Whitepaper. For additional details on the Workshop and Shared Task evaluation please refer to the Workshop's website.
Shared Task on Transliteration of Named Entities
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnCh: English to Chinese Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnCh_1008.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: ChEn: Chinese to English Back-transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_ChEn_1019.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnTh: English to Thai Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnTh_1236.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: ThEn: Thai to English Back-transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_ThEn_1236.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnPe: English to Persian Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnPe_1042.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnHi: English to Hindi Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnHi_1000.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnTa: English to Tamil Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnTa_1000.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnKa: English to Kannada Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnKa_1000.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnBa: English to Bangla Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnBa_1000.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnHe: English to Hebrew Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnHe_1100.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnKo: English to Korean (Hangul) Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnKo_1050.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: EnJa: English to Japanese (Katakana) Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_EnJa_1033.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: JnJk: English to Japanese (Kanji) Back-transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_JnJk_1095.xml"
Start: April 25, 2016, midnight
Description: ArEn: Arabic to English Transliteration Task. NON-STANDARD "results.xml" for test file "NEWS12_test_ArEn_1156.xml"
May 4, 2016, midnight
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